Could only comment on the taste of the Coke as I'm working nights this week. The place full of Black and White made me a little nausea.

The rugby League should just de register anyone found guilty of violence for a year or so! then no one else could sign them and as is the case in Aus where this happens some players might think twice before any thuggish behaviour.

Good Post Easty have you had a brain transplant

People just grow up I'm guessing.

Good Man a good post!!!

that makes to much sense to ever be implemented!
but what a sensible, and fair deterrent . from would be thugs, wanting to play professional rugby.

Sensible reaction here. More of the same needed methinks.

I've always enjoyed having Hull FC fans over to Knowsley Road. There's always been good banter and so far as I can remember, no trouble. It would be a real shame if people came over and started booing two players on the pitch (assuming Reardon plays for you on Monday) or otherwise causing problems. I hope we can all just get on with supporting our teams and watching a great game of rugby league.

another top class move by the board!!! are they just trying to wind us up!!

Will you , when cockayne returns

Feels that way doesnt it!!

Why is it?

What Cockayne did had no more to do with me than if he was a colleague at work.

Ditto Reardon, Cooke, Rayner, Pryce, Hannibal, Hitler, blah, blah, blah

Some people seriously need to start seperating RL (rugby league) from RL (real life) otherwise there's going to be a serious shortage of rocking chairs in years to come.

Does anyone seriously believe that there would have been any real interest in either of these cases if FC and KR weren't involved?

Two drunks in a fight in the west Riding and "just another domestic" wouldn't have caught your eye, especially as HDM wouldn't have done a 4 page spread.
And why didn't they do a 4 page spread on the last poor lass that got beaten by her husband or the young kid on trolley in (insert any town) hospital?

Because they DON'T CARE!

All they care about is 'good copy'. An FC or KR player in the cakc is meat to their gravy. Ditto in other towns i shoudn't wonder

All that's happening now is that Rovers fans are over-reacting to the overly defensive FC fans who overreacted last week to the overly defensive Rovers fans!

Cause and effect!

FC's turn last week, Rovers this.

It's the same way the good banter works: I know full well that as soon as I wind someone up at work it will be only a matter of time before I cop some back because Rovers stuff up for me (Warrington, cheers lads)

Letters to HDM and the RFL, texts and emails to radio humberside, Holier than thou, you're thug's thuggier than our thug etcetera et bleeding cetera

Meanwhile, the world moves on and the rest of the rugby world smiles in amusement as our two clubs fans knock lumps off each other.

I always say good can come from bad and if nothing else it might make people think twice before they jump from their soapbox to their high horse.

Saying that, I won't be holding my breath

Quote ="Aldy"Not trivialising the Ben Cockayne assault but the injuries sustained by Thompson were not as serious as claimed by the Hull Daily Mail web.orange.co.uk/p/web_sports/ru ... id=3265410'" they were bad enough for all to see on the internet though fratured ribs and a pneumothorax dont come from a light fight

Quote ="Aldy"Not trivialising the Ben Cockayne assault but the injuries sustained by Thompson were not as serious as claimed by the Hull Daily Mail web.orange.co.uk/p/web_sports/ru ... id=3265410'" they were bad enough for all to see on the internet though fratured ribs and a pneumothorax dont come from a light fight

Would you say he is on par with, or better than Thorman at FB as both have been suspect under the high ball, as Motu and Hall have been also.

He is here now so it's all 'mint imperial' anyway, what we have to do is get behind him and support him despite his indiscretions and hope he shows some form and gives us a boost in confidence at having someone who is a specialist to that position at the back.
Bring Hall back into the centre and Whiting at LF and we should have a more potent attack.

bloody hell Easty sense at last

Top post. I deal with domestic violence in my job day in day out and none reach the paper, I also deal and see ( yes witness ) acts of thuggery every weekend in Hull and only the most serious make the press.

bloody ell 2 sensible rovers fans posts

I'm not impressed

hull sign another player that is not good enough for another team. thats really ambitious!!!

of course they wont boo him when he returns!

at the end of the day they have a job to do on the pitch. like any other job, leave your personal problems at the door, do what you have to do.

i'm not condoning what reardon did but on the pitch why should it matter? he's a decent player and god knows we need them right now!

My wife and I often link arms. Do you think I should be more careful in future? Stop trying to butter it up. Like saying he threw his face at Cockaynes boot.

We do not know this yet..it is done now so maybe we need to see how he goes..one thing is for sure he is an experienced full- back, aparently he has kept on top of his fitness so this maybe the change he needs to get his game and life back on track..

fooks sake I thought this was a wind up

I wont. Already made my feelings clear.

And well said they were.
I cannot believe we have done this.

I am not condoning what he did. Terrible, breaking into somebody's home and assaulting them, maybe the RL should look into punishing players in the game. But until this happens we need to jump at any opportunity to sign decent players because we don't seem to be able to in regular circumstances. But what the guy did was not as bad as what Cokayne did so a custodial sentence is very very unlikely.