MP has got an even bigger job now........

I just hope to god we don't replace Lynch with Ewan Dowes.

Spot on

All depends on the replacement in my view. If we sign Morro and Cuthbertson (or similar) then I'm satisfied as I've never rated Andy as highly as some Bulls fans and the pack definitely needs freshening up. Add in Walker as a second rower plus 100k then I think that's an improvement. On sending out the wrong message I thought letting George Burgess go to Sydney was sending out the wrong message for little gain (reportedly 40k although I've no idea). This is getting 100k+ for a 32yr old whose been short of international class at his best.

If we sign Morro and Fozzard this board will go into meltdown and I genuinely think this board know next season is the last chance for them. They've got the salary cap, they've got the cash, they've got 10,000 pledges at 25% upgrade on last year plus 3000 season tickets sold already. Let's see what happens and for those crying into their breakfast I'm convinced we won't be any worse for Lynch leaving and Hull won't be any better for signing him.

COYB

Oh dear. this isn't the news I wanted to see this morning.

I hope we have about 4 signings lined up to go some way to plugging the frankly massive gaps we are now left with.

Thought by who?
If its you then you seen to be way off what the rest of the world thinks...

@James_Smailes - Back on Andy Lynch, some suggsting Hull paid £100k for him, I was told yesterday it was a figure closer to £50k

Who?

Not 'some'. HULL FC's own press statement states 'significant six figure fee'.

James Smailes? Sorry forgot I'm not on the Hull forum, he's a writer for HDM who does all the FC stories.

Gutted about Lynch, just when I thought the season couldn't get any worse.

I noticed that, if I'm reading the same [url=http://www.hullfc.com/newsarticle.aspx?n=19184statement[/url its now been changed to 'significant transfer fee'

Right. So he putting a positive spin on it then?
I would suggest that if Hull FC are saying a "significant six-figure sum" then it is likely to be true. Or do you think they making it up?

Hull's club website says It's a significant 6 figure sum. How much more confirmation is required than that?

On another note, I see Gleeson has been released by Hull.

Just saying.

0853 RUGBY LEAGUE: BBC Sport's George Riley on Twitter: "Bulls captain Andy Lynch to join Hull FC on two-year contract after agreeing release from final year of Bradford deal

Lets hope we get a quality or 2 quality props in now.

I just hope that they arent going to put too much pressure on young tom burgess, he has the potential to be a very good prop but if he is rushed into things at an early age with every bulls supporters expectations on his back i cant see him materialising at the bulls at least , it will probabaly be the factor that makes up his mind to go to Aus and then we are losing yet another good forward....
" you dont know what you've got till its gone " is a saying i feel alot of us will find the meaning of next year without lynch i feel unless a decent prop is signed , the only issue with that is we arent seen to be a marquee club anymore so would probably have to pay a salary over the odds to temp a prop who is even " as good " never mind better than lynch , and as for raynor he was a our best winger on the pitch last year but to be honest none of us know what he was like around the club he could have been a right pain and causing all sorts of problems we dont know... but i cant see the club telling us much either , sever breach of conduct is probably as much as they will tell us .....
so what now ?!?

So Paul Sykes at prop next year then.

Good luck to Andy and thanks for the efforts.

T&A website is in full 'creative' flow!

The most surprising thing on here is that some people actually seem genuinely surprised at this? It is just another example of the total ineptitude and mismanagement at our club.

Lets' get the Hoodwinker in the press this week making an impassioned plea like he did last week in regards to the Pledge. Get him to TELL people what is happening instead of twisting facts and hiding the whole truth. What a joke team we are - current props of Kopczak, Hargreaves, Scruton and Burgess would be poor in the National Leagues. From the awesome foursome to the awful foursome.

An absolute farce of a situation.

Harsh, on Kopczak and Burgess in particular. I just hope we put the transfer fee and cap space to good use, rather than it simply being another tool to ease the club's cashflow situation.

Just interested, how do you come up with the awful foursome?

IMO, Koppy would easily find a club higher in the table than Bradford, if he was released. Scruton is actually a good player but we haven't seen too much of him this year (doesn't make him crap!). Hargreaves was considered a 'coup' as his form in the 2010 competition was fantastic and Burgess is the only young British prop that has other clubs wetting their lips?

Agree we need to bring another prop in but it's hardly the 'awful foursome'!

Without the facts, how can one say that this is a farce of a situation? Maybe Lynch requested to leave and said he'd never play in the shirt again? Maybe he wanted to extend his contract and double his pay?

Let's reflect on this decision next season as we don't know what the club have planned moving forward.

Fair enough. I was judging them as a group rather than individuals though. And it is a terrible group of props.

It's 5 months from the start of the season. Why not wait until a little nearer then to start complaining about the squad?

If the club have failed to bring in the required level of talent then fine - It's an absolute farce of a situation. I think I'll reserve judgement until I actually know what forwards Potter has to pick a team from.

Doesn't mention a transfer fee in the club statement though does it? I was waiting to read "for an undiclosed fee" but I haven't seen it I don't think.

Either way it doesn't really matter if we get the right replacement.

It's going to be a very long and boring 4 or 5 months so a bit of transfer movement should keep it interesting.