Ginge do you think vella would have stayed with us if we had been relagated in that first season the answer is no he said so himself there isn't really any loyalty in sport players kiss the badge one minute then leave the next and clint Newton left us with a year left on his contract

What is going on? Rovers most respected player is binned off as not providing value for money and dares to seek alternative employment. How on earth can he be portrayed as a betrayer? Gormclopitude Extreme today.

No I don't but when he said he retired Vella did and newts didn't go over to the other side that's why I think now am I really bothered what happens all I know is frankie I wont be cheering for galea in black and White...... Simples

God Ginge I never really grasped what a bitter fan you are

I'm not a bitter fan ave I said out bout watts going over to u what's really bugged me is galea advertising the fact he was gonna let fans know today why he wasn't retiring oh hang on it was to sign for fc I guess that's ur big nrl prop signing gone out the window

This is a thread about Ben Galea and unfounded accusations of betrayal when Rovers in fact binned him off when he wanted to stay. Shouldn't you be pleased we've provided a retirement home with ensuite treatment table to your finest SL era player, whilst allowing him to sponge £100k of our cap? This is a win for Rovers, seeing a superb ambassador for the club retire in comfort, a win for the player too. FC are the losers in this scenario paying 6 figures for a crock, surely? Which makes it even nicer for you.

Get over ur selves fc fans galea always has and always will be a red and White thru and thru

The Cockayne stuff 1. is irrelevant and 2. has been done to death.

GS, I'll neither cheer him on for FC or suggest he's a traitor - there is a middle ground.

When you say 'that was then, this now', do you mean something has changed or just that the passing of time gives a different perspective?

Do you think an FC fan would be justified in saying Shaun Briscoe betrayed them, or Josh Hodgson or Craig Hall?

Why do my posts keep vanishing mr ?

=#FF0000I've pm'd you, MR.

You've all gone mental.

Benny G said he had a year left in him. When you have a senior pro who knows what he's about with the gravitas that Galea carries you should trust him.

Ben Galea would never have done Rovers wrong.

Our club didn't offer him a new deal, another club has, why wouldn't you do it?

If Rovers had given him what he deserved he'd still be there, fault lies entirely with Roves.

And yes,I will cheer Ben Galea next year because he's a fabulous player who ultimately deserved more from us.

He has been betrayed by Rovers more than he has betrayed your fans. It's sport get over it.

I know what you mean - but he's not an unbiassed observer. I don't for one moment think he'd have been poor value, but at 34 [imaybe[/i no longer best value. As there was with Shannon MacDonnell there's a hypothetical amount that IMO would constitute good value and without knowing what we offered or what he wanted, it's hard to judge.

Great post. Someone who can see it as it is.

Master coach Wayne Bennett, "Better to let a player go a year early than a year late".

For Ben Galea at age 34 and worsening injury record the time was right for Rovers to let go. We have certainly had the best of him.

If Benny stays fit in 2013 Hull have a good signing but really that is very hit or miss. Perhaps Hull can afford to take the risk but as a high earning player Rovers cannot.

Either way good luck to Benny Galea as far as I'm concerned. Rovers offered him retirement Hull offred him a very lucrative final payday he wasn't expecting. What else could he do?

Yesterday down in London I shook Bennie's hand and said 'Thank you Benny we'll miss you.' He replied 'Thanks, I really wanted to stay'.

Benny is too much of a professional to do anything other than his best for Hull FC but his heart will never be there and his body may have other ideas too.

This smacks of another Walrus signing, I wonder if the Gentle rumours (Catalans) have any substance?

That is as accurate as your other recent post

Ditto!