Cannot resist getting personal then. You do seem to overreact.

Calm down lads, I thought I was on our board for a min lol,

Didn't you like your poem, Keith?

Your ode
made Keith
explode

I'm not sure that that is how it should work at all to be honest. If I was in charge of picking players positions, I woudl stick to keeping people in their best positions wherever possible. Sio was amongst the top 3 wingers in the competition last year IMO, alongside Hall and McGillvary. Now, I realise Dixon struggled on occassion and I'm not at all convinced that he is the answer but we have had an entire off season to recruit a full back. I really would've liked to see us go out and do that.

Keith's not best pleased with an Italian Goose
Who posts in prose that's cheeky and loose
He gets all narky and foams at the chops
When Goose calls Keith a massive Gormclops
He should be chilling like me aboard a tractor
Dreaming one day he might be on X Factor (trendy over 60s soul bruvva section in my case)
Until some Avian grounds his dreams in the corn
Lines him up next to me and then shoots him at dawn.....



On a more serious rugby note, I read today that Thornley is 6 ft 4 ins. He should be able to protect Dixon from high balls kicked to the right wing inside our 30 reasonably well.

Im with the goose.
Any mention of xfactor is a crime. Any reference to that anti music exploitative purveyor of s#it should be punished.
Shooting is too quick. Those who mention it should be spread eagled Viking style, their faces pumped full of hot plastic in honour of their Cowell God, with a sound track of the yawping ex winners filtered through live electric cables into their ears.

BF. You're bang on mate. As I'm a lover not a fighter, if you shoot me, I'll just keep "Bleeding Love".

Boy, you can tell it's the off season!

I watched young Oakes last year and he was by far WTW best prospect (along with a kid called Will Dagger who is now at Warrington). The lad has strength beyond his years and great pace, I'd predict him getting a run out by the end of the year. In the near future I can see him been a real player and if Hull KR carry on his development he will be an England player for years to come. You have a good one there.... However it is a great loss to us!!!!

quote="TheRealist"I watched young Oakes last year and he was by far WTW best prospect (along with a kid called Will Dagger who is now at Warrington). The lad has strength beyond his years and great pace, I'd predict him getting a run out by the end of the year. In the near future I can see him been a real player and if Hull KR carry on his development he will be an England player for years to come. You have a good one there.... However it is a great loss to us!!!!'"

Young Oakes trained with the Wakefield first team on a number of occasions at the age of 15/16 and was quite impressive (according to a couple of the players). I have been led to believe that had he stayed at WTW he would have got a run out in the festive friendlies to see how he did, I think he will be fine at academy level but obviously the step up to SL is a big one, its not unheard of having a 16/17 year old winger play though!!

He looks a player all right on the usual you tube clips. He looks like he could play first team soon.
Apologies for pinching him we can sympathize.

Apparently we've signed a second row forward .......Straight from the horses mouth after a night out wetting the baby's head ......Who this second row forward is is anybody's guess!

Who was the horse?

Was the baby the new Grandchild?

Willie mason

good God no i would sooner sign stan the man or you instead of him



if he came he would get

Brett ferres would be nice !

Don't see why. We messed up in my opinion trying to get him in on another passport. If you want a star signing make sure you do it right. You can't dick people like that about.

Hi Ian i used to live in thorngumbald before we came down south lived their for 11 yrs down st martins road been down hear 8 yrs now miss going to rovers go maybe one or twice a yr. but back to what you said about mason i still would not have him in my team

Would love to know the real story behind the Mason disaster. :-S

Thankfully the club seems to have learned it's lesson since then (in one way).

Didn't he sign on the understanding he could get a Tongan passport but then got rejected for it? I think he actually went to Tonga to try get it i maybe wrong (I usually am) but when Willie got here he spent more time in pubs and clubs then anywhere else

Quote ="ian j"Don't see why. We messed up in my opinion trying to get him in on another passport. If you want a star signing make sure you do it right. You can't dick people like that about.'" It seems Catalaan are having the same passport problems. When he signed for Hull KR he claimed to be waiting for a Tongan passport now he’s waiting for a Samoan passport in order to join the Dragons. Perhaps your comment about dicking him about is unfounded www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-pre ... 7618801264 www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/j ... per-league

Quote ="ian j"Don't see why. We messed up in my opinion trying to get him in on another passport. If you want a star signing make sure you do it right. You can't dick people like that about.'" It seems Catalaan are having the same passport problems. When he signed for Hull KR he claimed to be waiting for a Tongan passport now he’s waiting for a Samoan passport in order to join the Dragons. Perhaps your comment about dicking him about is unfounded www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-pre ... 7618801264 www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/j ... per-league

From piecing little bits together, I think plan A was Galea would get a Maltese passport. When that didn't work, we asked Mason to get a Tongan one. He was entitled, iirc, but Tonga had just had elections and was going through a bit of a constitutional crisis.

Either way, I think we learned that a big name player isn't the way to smash the glass ceiling. The only way is to grind through it with hard work and hard cash. The talk of a five year plan is more realistic - that's no guarantee that it'll work, of course. And an iconic signing can still be a statement of intent, but you need to support them with a lot of other stuff.