You can train as long and hard as you like but it's very difficult to replicate match fitness, it'll take him a few games to get upto speed.

If he has come for the right reasons, knuckles down and concentrates on rugby, he will be as good a forward as there is in SL. If, on the other hand he decides to go looking for confrontations (which isn't out of the question judging by his comment so far), he will be more trouble then he's worth. IMO there are plenty of players willing and capable of giving him a fight, but few can match his attributes as a RL forward - depends on which he decides is most important to him.

I don't see him going looking for confrontation, what was his disciplinary record like in oz? He will no doubt attract a lot of attention from the oppo players and this should create a lot pens and a lot of space for the rest of the team.

I agree tho' we wont see the best of him for a couple of weeks yet.

Think it will take 5/6/7 games before we see him at his best.

so up to 11 games into a 27 game regular season.....money well spent

Oh right, is he only here for one season?

One thing is for sure 46 pages on just one player really shows how much of a draw the guy is going to be. I've had fans of other clubs claiming they are going to come over for his debut game! He might put bums on seats at other grounds too which is surely a good thing for everybody.

He's the reason I live, couldn't imagine life without him.

Has had a cracking first 20mins for Rovers. Not bad for a 6month lay off!

Jesus....you have got good eye-sight.

the joys of Radio Humberside!

you can see with radio now WOW

[size=2008,602. [/size The first match at home against The French was [size=200 8,092[/size

Lets hope he puts some bums on seats away. because it does not look like he has put many on the gate.

Add that to the cancelled welcome dinner

and the pay to view training also cancelled

Only the 500 eh?

They'd best get on with that ground extension ASAP.

If you are going to try and be smart Ian at least do it properly.
Last season against crusaders it was 7,273 so it is an actual increase of 1329.
Nice try though.

So how did ' Lurch ' do then

And if you could read he was actually talking about a difference between the opening home game of this season v Catalans and this game.

Therefore, he is correct.

In his first spell he was outstanding and in his second you could tell he hadn't played for 6 months as he looked tired.

He would have been far better if he had compared like for like as that would have been a far better comparison.
But no he was trying to be smart.

Not really. Considering Mason didn't play for you last season it would be an unfair comparison and not like-for-like.

He was actually highlighting how many more fans turned up to see Mason (and the Mason-factor). When clubs make a big signing you usually expect a bigger increase on the previous game. In this case, it wasn't.

Damn! So the signing has been an utter failure. Never mind.

As usual our crowds are hit by poor away support. Credit to the 30-40 Crusaders fans who came, but I bet we took 900-1000 there in September. Always the same with both Hull clubs - we have outstanding travelling support but rarely get it back in return.

I am happy with the two home games so far, they have been against the two worst away supported teams in SL, when the weather is better and we get Cas, leeds, Wire, Wigan etc I am sure it will be over the 9k mark.

So we've increased our crowds 1000 up on the catalans gate and 1400 on the welsh gate from 2010. Well done Rovers