The thing is with Willie, he has had plenty of off field stuff with the media, a couple of drunken incidents but mostly it has been what he's said to the media.

Going over the NQld fans forum from last year they all had similar concerns but their club has had a code of conduct since 2002 which seems to have kept their players in line. They have also more recently stated he would have been in their top 5 players of the season, and fair enough they were effectively bottom and the year before that the Roosters were too but you can't lay blame at one forward who can only do his job.

Sydney was the wrong place for Willie to be, too many lights, what he'll get here is probably a quiet place in Brough where the Hawk is the liveliest it is going to get!

Really confident Willie is going to really set this league on fire and I really cant wait to see him running out wide!

I say thank God for Willie Mason

,at least it seems to have finally killed of the

P.Cooke esq. threads.

the trouble with players coming to hull for either of our sides is that if they dont have enough self discipline the temptation to drink is too easy as there isnt much else to do,and with hull being a bit of a local goldfish bowl somebody is bound to see if they do mess up
a few museums,an art gallery,the deep,ice arena,casino,a couple of theatres and the cinema, you can go through all our local attractions in a week or so,especially if your not a fan of films or theatre
personally i think morgan wouldnt have signed him if he didnt think he could control him,but time will tell

Would agree with you Nick the good thing about most of the players living close to each other they spend a lot of time at each others places, i mean come on Brough is not the liveliest place on the planet. Until he arrives , settles and proves us right or wrong then were all just assuming although he is causing quite a stir before he as even stepped foot in this country, and FC imp i made a mistake with which NRL side i said Willie played for don't make me a tool.

True.............supporting Rovers does though.

Yeah. Wait while he dumps us midseason for your lot after saying he can only play in a half empty stadium but at least it has 4 sides.

Now now Barton Baird tut tut but quick lol

Does he still need to apply for a visa? (question may have been answered earlier, but cant be bothered to look)

He will still need a Visa to work in this country however he will be living here on his Tongan passport which allows Hull KR to class him as a non-fed trained but not a quota player. I have never seen the forms so don't know if you have to put which passport you are travelling on on your visa but if not he may already have his visa and so can just get the next flight over.

That's probably why he as said he will be over this week I reckon he could have visa already

I'm not moaning because he's signing for Rovers, infact ive always be a massive fan of Big Willie, maybe not so much now

, but its just turning into loophole central in rugby league.

maybe your club should exploit it too and give you some value for money for that season pass.

And heres me thinking we may of got a serious disscussion out of it

silly boy, big willie's on his way and if there was a poll, i bet 95% of darksiders are gutted that it never fell through ala crocker.
if he never made it, we tried, but he did and will soon be pulling on the famous red and white.

He's not here yet, did you ever watch that programme Lost?

quick, those straws your clutching at are rapidly disappearing!!!


did you ever see nal play in the eighties, boring, boring......... the chant went.....

Was just a baby in the 80's... Im not clutching at no straws, read back to the bit were I said I was a fan of him.

Why don't we just get rid of the loopholes all together and just say to clubs you can have as many Aussies as you can get but you MUST play at least 6 home grown players per game, another 5 players out of the 17 must be federation trained with the others made up of anyone else in the squad. Link in to this that your home grown players must be paid a minimum of 25k per year it would encourage teams to really work on their home grown players.

This way has the potential to improve the standard of both the competition and youngsters coming through as 11 out of the 17 are always going to be federation trained and home grown players meaning a team like Rovers can't field 10 non-federation trained players leaving only 7 spots open for everyone else.

you said you liked big willie... could mean something else!



fair doo's, i think he will be a great addition to super league, may even raise the profile of the game slightly, as long as it's on the field and not in the street!!

Up peoples back fences

I agree, a massive addition to Superleague.

Well according to [url=http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/sport/HULL-KR-RFL-happy-Mason-quota/article-3060965-detail/article.html[uthis[/u[/url Mason will be Federation trained!!!

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HDM story seems to be entirely credible.

=#FF0000Speaking in today's Daily Mirror, RFL chief executive Wood said Rovers had not broken any rules.

"We're happy no rules have been broken and Mason will qualify as a Federation trained player," he said.

" It's similar to any player with an islands' heritage from the Southern Hemisphere.

"So, there's no reason why Mason shouldn't come to England in this way."


To all fans of RL (and the Dave channel), have a happy 2007!

What a joke both Hull KR and the RFL are.

It's a disgrace isn't it.

No wonder we've never won a Tri/Quad nations series or The Ashes since 1970.

Don't forget Wigan! Or are they immune from all critisicm because they are champs....