So you think

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Great, isn't it? Baileys from a protein shake bottle. What a bellend.

As the RFL do not have any proof i cannot see them being able to do anything. All he has to say is he made it up to make the book more interesting.

Couldn’t he just say that he was making it up to sell books if the RFL come after him?

Wasn't that Matt Le Tissier for Southampton? Only problem was his team mate kept it in play

So its in the fiction section at Smiths is it







I just find it incredible that a player openly admits something in a book and expects no one will notice

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It will come back and bite him of the bum

Well, that's Long fecked for a few months then.

It doesn't matter where it's on sale, without supporting evidence Long can just claim to have made it up.

As pointed out elsewhere, the RFL had sight of the manuscript before publication so this will hardly be news to them.

Whether made up or not, it could be seen as bringing the game into disrepute.

Yup. Thing is that's a pretty vague charge with a not too well defined set of penalties, so he'd likely get off a lot lighter than if he was charged with betting again.

And I'm not trying to defend him BTW. I don't mind players with a bit of character, but some of the stuff in his book is just childish and stupid IMO.

Two things Longy has in spades!

If he got a disrepute charge than any RL player ever convicted of an offence would have to be charged with the same!

I reckon nothing will happen, storm in a teacup, the only person who wins is Longy as it's selling him more books.

Rubbing his hands as we speak I should think.

Do you ever have anything positive to say about anything Hull FC Martin. He's said its warts and all childish silly bad etc etc etc.But he is in the busines of selling a book, he starts with us in November if he does it after that then we will all get on his back, what is not reported is the end of the book where he reflects on how stupid he has been! andalso the fact that the RL had sight of a draft of the tome weeks ago!

The fact is he is a character hopefully, as he says i the book, a reformed one, but as the Rugby League press said this weekend still the best scrum half in the Super League! Oh and he has signed for us!!!

I was taking the urine



I doubt the RFL had read the book prior to its printing


If it was at KR there would be ten pages on here baying for his head. To be honest I don't really care, but if he is allowed to get away with it where does it leave the standing of the sport ?

They had a copy of the manuscript before it was printed. Given that Long had expressly been saying how controversial it would be it's hardly unreasonable to assume that they would have read it.


So what?


It'll have precisely zero long term effect on the standing of the sport. Once the current hullabaloo surrounding the launch is over, everyone will forget about it.

Doh!

You could well be right


As I stated I do not really care, for me its in the past and that has gone now.


However ............................


This is the RFL we are talking about

Which is my point (despite Wilfs dummy spit), I am anrgy that a player we have signed has done something that could lead to action being taken by the RFL that means he is unavailable to play for us, even one friendly game.

He sat as a guest on a radio show with the president of the RL next to him and stated the RL had asked him for an advanced copy which had been sent several weeks ago. The RFL president did not counter this. You doubt away but in the meantime I'll make a judgement based on fact and not your anti-Hull summisations.

My concern IS HULL being denied his services if there is any comeback



Anti Hull, how do you reach that conclusion



But if it suits you to read it that way then go right ahead

OK not anti Hull. But if you think the RFL haven't already read the manuscript you are wrong.

Agree, i'm bothered what he does in the name of Hull FC, i've read loads of autobiographies,ie: golfers, cricketers, footballers, referees, jockeys and so on, they all have some spicy stories to tell, its what we buy them !!!! and what sells them!!

My hope is it fades away, the last thing we need now is sort of long winded RFL inquiry and action that effects FC

Being in posession of the manuscript is one thing, actually having read it entirely is a completely different matter!