They know there will be no relegation so biding their time to sign the right players.

As for loan signings from us, I see to remember they didn't want abdul yet weren't exactly falling over themselves to thank us when he was instrumental in their promotion

One week to go before the start of the season and no official announcement what the format will be for 2019!! No wonder people think our sport is a joke.

Or just accept that different things hold different levels of significance for different people?

Like how their engagement is a big deal for Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank, but I'm more concerned about what I should have for my dinner tonight.

I'm still not over our 50-0 defeat at Wembley or the long trudge to relegation in 2016 and will freely admit that they were hard to stomach. Your wins at Wembley - I wanted Hull to lose, but they didn't and I swiftly turned my thoughts to what I have should have for my dinner. I honestly can't remember even the basic details now... it might have been pasta.

I'm genuinely fond of Hull KR. My dislike of Hull FC is very shallow and in it's own way tender - you are my favourite 'enemy'.

Obviously its tainted by relegation, but in fairness our 2016 team must be one of the better teams to have been relegated from SL. Finished above a SL in the normal season and in the 8s and it took a moment naivety, a forward pass and an unlucky coin toss to send us down in MPG (never mind the iffy drop goal that landed us in it in the first place). All that said, what seemed like a stubborn refusal to help ourselves by doing anything that offered short-term benefit until Peacock finally pulled up his socks (literally and metaphorically), gave it an air of inevitability.

This year is a blank page. I have some concerns about the team, but the depth of the squad wasn't one of them until this loans idea was floated. With the exception of Blair and Cator (and maybe Salter, if you want to count him as a backrow option), all of our undersized backrowers are out or struggling, it seems. That's astonishing - we've got loads of them.

Suppose to be signing tickle our noisey neighbours, bit different to murdoch masila !

Too far now, as if.

What a lovely sentiment. Are you getting Robert Lui then? Might impact which of our players you're targeting next.

Doubt we're getting Lui, from what Rovers and Salford have said about it.

Given the team we were able to field last night, and the fact you've let Rawsthorne go I think the prospect of cross-town loan has receded for now, and maybe any loan-ins for us at all.