If they beak the rules again they'll be punished again.

They don't get preferential treatment. Hull don't get treated differently than Wigan or Saints or Leeds with regards disciplinary offences.

Honestly, I cringe sometimes reading this board.

I believe the trouble started with the ridiculous extensions of Minichiello & Manu contracts, they are both way past it, on decent money & taking up quota spots.

Why was it a mistake to have a joint academy? Do you see a benefit in us funding one on our own?

I would hope that some one with Pearson's experience in sports administration that he can build relationships and result in introductions through he former employees.

Pearson has owned Hull fC since 2011. That's long enough to understand how things work if you are from a sports background.

With all due respect, you have no idea that Radford is the ONLY person that Pearson listens to. I would hazard a guess that Ellis has a decent network of contacts across the game, especially in Australia.

I agree that the paranoia is cringeworthy at times.

But I reckon there is not a single Wigan fan that had the 2019 Salary cap points deduction on their mind when they were watching their captain lift the trophy at Old Trafford last October.

The Punishment is woefully light and in an era of apparent "Live" salary cap, why is this not detected until the following season.

Although I agree with the overall idea of your post, my reckoning is that you don't know what coin they are on.

If in the twilight of your career you have the choice of a reduction on pay or nothing at all, what would you do?

Because the player/players involved received (reduced) payments to keep within the cap, and their "agents" were payed separately, but that money should have gone directly to the players, and would have then exceeded the cap.

It took so long because wigan denied doing anything wrong, so it had to go to an independent tribunal, at which point they admitted the offence.

So deliberately erroneously subverting the cap and compuonding it by lying only gets a meagre fine and docked 2 points? Seems very lenient to me. That’s not paranoia.

Although I agree with the overall idea of your post, my reckoning is that you don't know that they were offered a reduction in pay or nothing at all.

It would be fair to assume as the previous poster alluded too that they will be on a decent wage, maybe not high, maybe not low but decent as they are overseas players and both former internationals.

Currently injured expected back in 4 months.

You did, so I apologise.

I think everyone knows that we aren't going to sign 4/5 players for next season my first post was talking about next season.

Tony was so influential at getting the right players in, I'd still think he would point Hull in the direction of a NRL player or two