Considering we are about to enter our fifth successive SL season after been the bookies' favs to go straight back down in 2007 I'd say that's very unfair. Name one club that came up into SL and immediately fielded a team full of English lads (and didn't go straight back down!).

Your balance sheet and P&L account would make more interesting reading in three years time

Has he really? You mean a head coach has assembled the best team he thinks he can? In a sporting competition? Never!

What will they think of next?

It's absolute genious, why coaches haven't done this in the past amazes me!

they have done..then the RULES changed but it seems somebody forgot to email the notification to East Hull

They got them, they just ignored them.

13 pages of jealousy

Hull KR have been a fine addition to SL, very well run club

whilst not as big as their neighbours they sure run a much better football department from the coach to the imports

you'd better notify the RFL quickly then as they seem to disagree with you!

how often have we beaten the aussies on the international stage?? Not often ever and never on a consistent basis. years ago, we had very few aussies/tongans etc over here (certainly a lot less than now) but still failed to beat them on a regular basis, suppose thats rovers fault too!!

Theres plenty more English players then there is Newzealenders yet they still manage to do pretty well. The fact is more quantity doesnt mean better quality. So more youngsters given a chance by not bringing 9 Aussies over for HKR wouldnt make the slightest difference.
Not talking into account Liam Watts could make a great English player in the next few years - which i have no doubt Big W and the likes will make him a better player.

Looking at this as a RL fan.....I'm looking forward to seeing Mason in SL this season.

Same here, it's the players like Fisher, Lovegrove, Clinton, Webster and Green that make them a laughing stock.

no doubt you would have said the same about Dobson the day after we signed him. Hasn't turned out too bad for us!

At least Dobson got the chance eh? You may well have said Scott Spaven didnt turn out too bad if he had been given a chance...

Not at all. When Rovers announced his signing I felt we'd missed out to be honest. We'd seen what he did at Catalans and Wigan and know he's a decent player, plus he's still in his early 20's. No problem what so ever with players like Dobson over here. Vella, Galea and Newton too.

I don't see much difference between Green and Dobson, both young, both struggling to hold down a NRL starting position. Fisher and Lovegrove (neither bad players by the way and would start at majority of SL clubs) I do agree we could replace with English players if we looked hard enough or poached from another SL club. We have a young English 9 who hopefully will take over from Fisher in the not too distant future.

Out of our overseas players I would suggest only Fisher and Lovegrove you would class as avg the rest you would have to spend alot of money finding an english replacement or wait for a youngster of equal calibre to come through, which Wigan have shown isn't always possible even with a very good jnr set up.

So your basic arguement on the fact is hes in his early 20s and was a decent larker. But then say you have a problem with Lovegrove who is alot younger, and could of turned into 1 of the best players in SL at his young age, and who pretty much started his pro career in the UK with us? Yet you dont have a problem with the likes of Vella/Galea?
Please explain?

What about you guys taking on Leeds academy juniors in recent years and putting them straight in over your own?

And perhaps Pat Smith could have been the answer to Hull fc's cover problems at scrum half and hooker. Never mind, i'm sure that the Maltese Australian Jarrod Sammut will do a job there.........

Dont think we ever gave Smith a pro contract bud.

We didnt need to find loopholes or get special dispensation to bring those players in this is the crux of most peoples frustration.

The whole idea of all clubs agreeing to reduce the number of imports to increase the pool of British players and help improve national team etc is just a whole sack of crock if clubs do not adhere to it.

Oh right, there was me thinking you was having a dig about not giving local juniors a chance. Hence my point on how many Leeds academy players have been given the chance at FC.

Fisher was with us well before super league and has done us a great service.
Lovegrove was epic last year, same with Clinton. Webster has had a rough ride with injuries, and Green hasn't even played yet!

The only import we've had who I regret was garrett crossman

as a Hull KR fan you are on dodgy ground banging on about leeds juniors playing for you,