i was at my nephews chrisitening last sunday and 1 of the players was having his daughter christened at the same place. Got talking to 1 of the players about the quins game and he mentioned how impressed he was with hame and moa at which point i said i hope we keep moa and his reply was i do too but knowing hull fc they will get rid of him to save 5k



It's abit worrying when even players are saying things like that

The club has debts of £1.4m. Revenue will be down this year - we've sold 4,000 fewer shirts for starters. We have Long, Lauaki, Fitz, O'Meley, Berrigan on big money contracts, and I doubt that R Horne, Raynor, Yeaman, Calderwood, Tickle, Manu will be on peanuts. The players complaining about FC's penny-pinching should recognise that a consequence of their poor performances bringing in less revenue to the club is that savings having to be made.

This rant is not about Sam, BTW, who I like, just the fact that a member of a team that's dragged us to 12th in the table feels it's OK to moan about tight pursestrings.

Very good point well made, and to be honest i never looked at it that way just so frustrated with how things are at moment i seem to automaticly want to blame the club

You're not related to Standee are you?

(Sorry Standee, I'll "Give it a rest" now

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Would have been my first thought as well, as I think most would like to keep Moa and not risk losing him for a relatively small amount of money.

I work for a business that's very cost conscious, and generally people are bought into the idea of saving money wherever possible and recognise that when sales are down, belts have to be tightened. Not all teams invested £30k or whatever in a warm weather training camp, but we did. Not all clubs get the training and playing facilities that we have. At the moment investing in those things isn't yielding a return as the team have taken us to (effectively) bottom of the league and gates and merchandise sales have suffered. Our of order to moan about cost saving in that context IMO. I'll get off my soapbox now.

Deff could not have but it better Mrs B

Remind me never to question your logic and knowledge

I know someone who recently spent time with a first teamer. The player spent all his time telling him what a p1sshead Mark O'Meley was! The same said player can usually be seen in the concourse with a lager in hand on matchdays.

And I wonder why my team has gone the way it has?

A few weeks ago I was all for getting rid of Craig Hall. Like many others on here, I know nowt really.

To be honest i used to be 1 of hall's biggest critics, thought he always over forced the pass but he seems a new player since his loan spell (well done agar



) maybe we really do know nowt

Quote ="knocker norton"eusa_clap.gif I know someone who recently spent time with a first teamer. The player spent all his time telling him what a p1sshead Mark O'Meley was! The same said player can usually be seen in the concourse with a lager in hand on matchdays. And I wonder why my team has gone the way it has? '" Don't worry about O'Meley. Not sure whether this has been linked before but it's a nice article. www.news.com.au/couriermail/stor ... 09,00.html "We couldn't believe our eyes the first time we saw O'Meley in the dressingrooms," recalls former North Sydney player Jamie Goddard. "He was rubbing Deep Heat into his face. We just thought he was mad, but he said 'Don't worry, I do it all the time'." "Even back then we knew he was going to be something special. We thought 17 was too young for first grade, but he proved us all wrong. He was just such a professional. The hardest trainer I have ever seen."

Quote ="knocker norton"eusa_clap.gif I know someone who recently spent time with a first teamer. The player spent all his time telling him what a p1sshead Mark O'Meley was! The same said player can usually be seen in the concourse with a lager in hand on matchdays. And I wonder why my team has gone the way it has? '" Don't worry about O'Meley. Not sure whether this has been linked before but it's a nice article. www.news.com.au/couriermail/stor ... 09,00.html "We couldn't believe our eyes the first time we saw O'Meley in the dressingrooms," recalls former North Sydney player Jamie Goddard. "He was rubbing Deep Heat into his face. We just thought he was mad, but he said 'Don't worry, I do it all the time'." "Even back then we knew he was going to be something special. We thought 17 was too young for first grade, but he proved us all wrong. He was just such a professional. The hardest trainer I have ever seen."

hope we dont let moa go, next year now that hes climatised i think he will shine and make a huge name for hisself in super league, i just hope its in a fc shirt

Season passes at £80 or agar on his way would do it

Oh, and hall to rovers, aussie SOO centre coming in

Strange that the club ran a feature on him on the official website yesterday, where he praises his team mates and the coaching set up when he's 2 weeks away from going to Rovers.

They'd save a fecking fortune if they restricted your internet access during the day

how long you been at FC then

Yeah, I think the same thing happened with briscoe and cooke

I'm very rarely on here during the day.

How great would that be? Must be room on that board for another director - there's 8 already, so what difference would another one make?

you fancy being a coal facer then

Either that or using the cooking analogy, a sous-chef. Although literally that means "under the chef" and I'm not sure I fancy being under James Rule.

So they should be as they are both contracted. The question is will they stay beyond next season? If they are getting games most weeks then I think they will stay.

Or maybe its well done Paul Cullen

I can't speak for houghton but i happen to know craig personally,if he was planning or thinking of a move i would know trust me on that one guys,,he is happy at hull we should accept that and move on

Well said, why oh why do we listen to rumours about players signing for the dobbins?

Over the last few seasons we've had Yeaman, Hall, Houghton, Lee, both the Horne’s, Washbrook, Motu, Burnett, Hodgson and even Crocker FFS!