Looking from the outside in,would you agree that JR has done alot of good things for the club and a few not so good things?.Imo i think he has done a very good job of the day to day running of the club and has kept it afloat.That tells me he has been doing his job properly.

Or, alternatively, some people accept that we don't have all the facts and would rather not jump to judgement.

BTW - nobody is saying that Rule doesn't have shortcomings. Just not necessarily as many as you and others think he has.

Presided.

Also the recruitment part. Agar would have targeted players he wanted to sign and the BoD would have told him which he could have. Rule may have done a chunk of the negotiating but I seriously doubt that he had any influence over who we signed.

Or what they were paid

Spot On.

I would be more inclined to say that it had underperformed in several ways that all relate to the playing aspect, but it's a matter of opinion. Yes, the main positive is the profitability, but there is also our strong franchise position as well as hearing our community work receiving a lot of praise.

The bottom line is that contrary to what many fans seem to think, Rule's job is not to run the club as the fans would like, it's to run it in the way the shareholders want. I therefore see an inconsistency in saying that the old board wanted only to make as much money as they could, and to then say that Rule is poor at his job. If the former is true, then Rule has done his job very well. His new employer would seem to want different things, and Rule may well be just as capable of delivering them.

I'm not saying that Rule is fantastic, or even definitely the right man long term. I'm just saying that I think it's strange to call for his head when we don't know what he has and hasn't been responsible for and the room he's had to work with to do it. He's being tarred with the same brush as the outgoing board when he wasn't a true part of them or one of their peers. Pearson is the man in the right position to make the call, not us.

I've criticised Agar and the board for long enough, I just think that Rule is potentially a different case.

Well said Let's see what AP thinks of him, he'll make the right decision.

I would agree with most of that

I have never got on JR back I think he has done his best and many good things have been done. He is part of the old regime and I think that the new King will appoint his own man.

He has his own PA now entrenched in the Hull FC offices

Depends if he is working for the money or for the love of what he's doing. Seems like the sort of guy who will want to be close to the action in his own club. He may love working at City and not dream of giving that up of course.