I bear the kid no personal malice.

I'm not the type to boo, but if I did it'd be a joking, back-handed compliment, in the spirit of panto.

Kelly gets a curled lip and a weary shrug at most.

Greenwood was an important re-signing, in that respect.

Given that we had to recruit a squad from scratch, very quickly and from a limited player pool, we were unlikely to get everything we wanted. It's a about 15% better than I expected.

Quote ="Mild Rover"Lee Radford seems less than confident about Jordan's ability to make a positive contribution in the short-term. 'He's got the opportunity to go out there with Hull KR, make some mistakes on the field...' Not entirely reassuring! www.hullfc.com/news/2016-11-11-y ... oan-chance'" good business for both clubs he will be very cheap and that allows you to spend money else where and keep more in the pot for the middle 8s wish we could have done the same with Logan he is a class young player who needs game time and he may not get it at Fc next year these young prospects need to be playing at a good standard regularly, also with the added advantage of learning off a quality coach like Sheens can do him no harm win win

Quote ="Mild Rover"Lee Radford seems less than confident about Jordan's ability to make a positive contribution in the short-term. 'He's got the opportunity to go out there with Hull KR, make some mistakes on the field...' Not entirely reassuring! www.hullfc.com/news/2016-11-11-y ... oan-chance'" good business for both clubs he will be very cheap and that allows you to spend money else where and keep more in the pot for the middle 8s wish we could have done the same with Logan he is a class young player who needs game time and he may not get it at Fc next year these young prospects need to be playing at a good standard regularly, also with the added advantage of learning off a quality coach like Sheens can do him no harm win win

You suspended him penny pinching as always and it back fired, you thought with campo back you would be safe and it all went up in your face, Peacock wanted rid of Kelly to help with cap space and as normal instead of biting the bullet and moving him out in the right way to another club you tried sacking him to save on his outstanding contract.

Lets face it Peacock has made some terrible decisions in only one year, getting Webster in who has no SL coaching experience, another penny pinching appointment, the first time Peacock is offered another role at another club he will be gone I heard he applied to Leeds only a few weeks ago so much for his 5 year plan your been taken down the garden path stop the bitterness towards our club and look at your own without the red rose tinted glasses on

Lets face it you haven't got a clue what went on with Kelly and Webster coached Wakefield in SL although wouldn't have been my choice it's funny we seem to have no end of Hull fans who seem to know every detail of what happens at our club

Even by your deluded and mis-informed standards that's hossdung.

How is suspending somebody penny pinching? Perhaps you don't have experience of this (although I find it hard to believe nobody has not suspended or sacked you at some point) but he would have got full pay during his suspension,it's the law.

Newsflash, we sacked him as, like his previous 2 employers, we found out he was a vagina.

I am assuming that your dual registration agreement with Donny is still in place so your young starlets will get some game time there.
Your problems will arise when they become frustrated with the lack of first team opportunities and are tempted to leave.
All the club's investment in youth development will be to someone else's advantage.
This a problem throughout the game, with clubs putting success before foundation.Overseas players dominate our game and block player development.

Except at Wigan

Ok ill make it a bit simple for you

by sacking Kelly you don't have to pay him off his contract which he had left, you get rid for misconduct saving you a small fortune and freeing up cap space, maybe he deserved it I like don't know but lets face it suspending your best player when your fighting for SL survival was not the best decision ever made at your club your opponents will have been doing cart wheels

I can only deduce from this that the your management team thought you where in no trouble and you would ease through the rest of the middle 8s and so get rid of Kelly on the cheap less a years contract money but it went t+ts up, can you see any other reason why you would suspend one of your best players at this time ? you took a gamble and it went very wrong bad management from a guy who given the chance will be gone as soon as he can with his 5 year plan

The 23s comp was to try and help this situation as a sort of under grade comp but the poor leadership at the rugby league have failed again to get on board at least my club is trying to find a pathway for young players and so was your club until the money strings got cut

Fc eaststander... why dont you stop taking so much interest in our club nd thinking you know everything about our club and get on your own clubs forum and worry about them. If you knew what kelly actually did you should worry about.the harmony in your dressing room!!!! See you in the middle 8's!!

Do you really think by signing one player(not even a poor one), we will drop 8 places and finish in the middle 8's. If he does anything wrong, then he won't play and will be released and we will be fine.

It's a risk, but one worth taking with our depth.

If you'd seen Kelly play against Leeds in the middle 8s you might have a different opinion he was terrible and arguably cost us the game to suggest we took a risk to save a bit of money is ridiculous

Half your squad was poor last year every time they was on sky, cockayne cost you loads of tries on your line, we won't have no trouble with Kelly.

You keep telling yourself that.... everywhere he's been it's the same old story

Wasnt saying that just because you've signed kelly... You black and whites just irritate me.. you all seem to think you know the ins and out of our club.. should concentrate on yours and let us concentrate on ours... I couldn't care less what goes on at your club. So dont see why you lot are so interested in ours..

Also I was a big fan of alby and think on his day he is unplayable.. but if what I believe he's done is true then if I was lee radford I wouldn't of gone near him... even his best mate maurice blair doesnt talk to him now from what I'm told

I had the conversation about middle8s next season with a hull fan but he got all gangster when I suggested hull wouldn't be top 4 and imo may be back in the perennial fight between 6-9.i wouldn't be that surprised to see them and us in the middle 8. Interesting season ahead for both teams

To suggest Rovers sacked Kelly purely as a financial measure is naive in the extreme, as anyone with even a passing understanding of employment law will tell you.

Kelly was suspended for a last straw act, which was at the end of a long line of previous misdemeanours. I applaud the club for taking a principled stand against a very disruptive bloke, who had lost support from all his work colleagues at that point.

His dismissal would have been on solid legal grounds otherwise we'd be looking at an unfair dismissal case from fat lad.

Don't be daft Craig.

We don't have a Woolworths no more but pick any shop window in the HU1 vicinity, & I will gladly get my @rse out, if we get in the middle 8s, I'll even get Radders to join me.

Apart from return late from Oz, what did he do that warranted his dismissal?

Leeds and Huddersfield are testament to just how quickly things can turn sour, if adequate, on going recruitment is not managed well. That said , if anything, we have an arguably stronger squad for the next campaign , than we did this time last year, so I don't see that scenario becoming a reality at Hull, especially as Salford, Wakefield, Widnes and Huddersfield are not really stronger this year, with at least two of that four being considerably weaker than last season.

Watched the highlights of Heffenden's best bits on youtube, which can sometimes be mis-leading, but, given that he will make his bow in what should be a dominant Championship team, you look to have signed a good player and Sheens' contacts look to be already significantly better than the three previous incumbent's. I think you'll be in the middle 8's and possibly get promoted, depends on the latter part of season reinforcements you van attract, but not us.

FC won't be in the middle 8's barring a cataclysmic injury crisis, Kelly on a one year 'last chance saloon' deal will work his socks off and will win them games. We sacked him, he moved on.

Everybody happy now!

Can we get back to KR related matters now?

That dildo shop on ferensway? You may be right but Il file this post away borista style to rake up should chance arrive..

The thing with YouTube clips is that every player looks great so you might as well ignore them in reality

Knew alf macklin through local darts in 2000s very good chucker and a good bloke.dont really remember his playing days tho