Urmmmmm............

The way he always wound Rommel up.

dishing out the justice to Bailey

Chanting judas at him when he came back with bradford

I have always had a lot of respect for Radders, he was always reliable on the pitch, a good work horse and his work in the community coaching etc has been excellent.
I wish him well in the rest of his career..

Ryan Bailey smashing him all over again last season, particularly the league game at Headingley where Bailey threw him about ten yards for Leeds last try.

Biting ears off

How disrespectful. ATEOTD, someone who has wore the black n white shirt for 6 years deserves more respect than that - especially someone who is still with the club and has done excellent community work for the club. - not mention his work for the Steve Prescott foundation.

Maybe he wasn't the most inspirational captain, perhaps he did play as part of a team that has played pretty poorly for a number of seasons but he has also being part of a team that landed us our highest SL era league position, our first SL GF and our first CC trip to the new Wembley.

I am sure he will be appreciated by both players he has played with and against.

Always gave 100% in the black and white shirt.

Wow, you must have been on some pretty strong hallucinogens that day! 10 yards!! lol

It never fails to amaze me how the Leeds fans feel the need to over hype the biggest pansy of a prop forward in the competition. If he was a tenth as tough, or as talented as they make out, he'd be buried under offers from the NRL.

Anyway, my best memories of Radders date back to when he broke through at 17 and looked one of our best players at the time. Looked like he was going to be a mobile forward back then!

I value the work he does on the community programme and obviously wish him every success in his coaching career. That said, he (understandably) ditched us and Bradford had the best of him. Solid and unspectacular - I can't really think of an individual play in 6 seasons that turned a game for us. A players' player IMO. Will be there tomorrow and wish him well.

Well said.

I for one don't blame him for leaving Hull when he did. We were in the second tier and had a bad track record of negotiations with local lads such as Radders and David Hodgson (sounds familiar, that). He had a chance to join what was the biggest club in the game at time and he took it. He's hardly the only player to have done it.

Let's not forget, this isn't a Hull FC testimonial. It's an RFL one and Radford has had a successful career.

Agree Raggy, was it Cas away he came on for his debut and scored 2 tries

Yeah that was a great debut, looked every bit a future star. I'd watch him play in the u18's for the previous 12 months and he was almost unstoppable. Why anyone expected him to hang around when Bradford came calling is bewildering.

Does Radford have many events left for his testimonial?

at 1st glance i thought this was a thread about the old 3d character "rodders"

Some incredible memories on here for the guy who has to be the least inspirational captain I have ever seen, I sure will miss seeing him hunched over under the posts after conceeding a try with his whole body language saying Defeat.

The bloke is the embodiment of everything that has been wrong with the club for the past 5 years:

Boring
Slow
Dumb
Undroppable
Uninsipring
Plodder

Opening Lennys Bar

Like someone said,This is a RL testimonial and not a FC one.Ok,he was never captain material and yes,he wasnt the best signing we ever made but his honours at Bradford speak volumes.He played the game and won a lot of trophys,is spoken highly of by other players.The way you are going is downright disrespectful of someone who has actually set foot on a rugby pitch and played to the highest level.

Hows your career and trophy haul?

Weren't you a big fan of Fitzgibbon? I'd personally say that at least 4 of those attributes you list apply to him in his time here as well.

What has that got to do with anything ?

Have you ever heard a song and complained about it ?
Seen a film and complained about it ?
Eaten at a restaurant and complained about it ?

To claim you can only pass comment on stuff which you can do better than another person is ridiculous.

Would you be slagging him off if he wasnst with us?

Well said

As much as it was a honour seeing a modern day Legend play for us....I have seen a lot better in a Hull shirt than "sir" Fitz.

I'm pleased he isnt playing anymore and hopefully he can continue the work that Last has done with the 20's and get the likes of Crooks, Cunningham and Brown ready to step up to SL level in the next few years.

While I do agree, I think a lot of that was due to him playing in a crap team, with little tactics.

I reckon had he come into a good team as an experienced, quality forward (like Kearney did) we'd have seen a lot more from him.