☺East-Sard☺ wrote:When's the last time someone talked to us? The only quotes I can recall are from Morgan during his press duties and the odd snippet from Hudgell. It seems clear from the outside looking in, that HDM no longer have a lot access to Rovers.

I think the recent 'bad blood' (if there is any) started when Rovers cut them out of the Mason week to start with. The Mail then (aided by Radio Humberside) did their sleuthing to 'uncover' the Dobson deregistering saga. The Mail then ran the Dobson 'free agent/contract terminated' story whilst HKR said no comment, instead preferred to issue their own statement on hullkr.co.uk. The story snow balled and over shadowed the 'what was the biggest signing in our history' story. Hudge then goes on record over the PA system at CP expressing his displeasure at both local media outlets etc.

If I recall at the time Rovers were getting a new website and started to aggressively promote hullkr.tv by releasing all/most of their content and news through this media stream. This move no doubt improved traffic to hullkr.co.uk and helped the commercial partners in the process. But more or less cut out HDM/Humberside.

The problem what we’ve had this season is the relentless PR disasters that have happened. We don’t want to talk about them and so the likes of the HDM have had free rein to say whatever they like. ‘The Mail understands … followed by ‘Sources close’ are a proven winner. Because we’re not talking to them our side of matters haven’t come across. Thus we can’t control or limit what bad press we’re getting … PR disasters.

MrPhilb wrote:I think it's safe to say Justin will indeed be moving on come the end of this season if he can secure a job elsewhere, just a case of who'll replace him

MrPhilb wrote:I can imagine James Webster will be a candidate

dum-dum wrote:How would James Webster be a good choice?

If we had appointed a new coach 4 weeks ago, this turnaround would have suggested we had done the correct thing in disposing of Morgan, I would like to think the main reason for our little change in fortune is that both Dobbo and Newton are back in the squad and we are finding a bit of form.

Roofs wrote:Noble & Gene - The Dream Team

blakeysrobin wrote:Just so wrong in many ways.

Roofs wrote:Well admittedly Justin deserves credit for 3 wins from 3, but tbf it has been against very weak opposition.

IMO there would be many advantages to Webster as coach:

- His previous spell was very successful and led to our first silverware in 8 years
- He's been learning the ropes at Hull, one of the biggest clubs in the country
- He's young, the advantage of this been openness to new, modern ideas
- He knows a large part of the squad (Briscoe, Fisher, Murrell, Netherton, Newton, Galea etc) having played in SL with them in 2007 and / or 2008

Okay it would be partly a gamble due to him having no experience as head coach, but in terms of continuity and stability at the club it could be worth the risk.