He may have admitted it earlier but nothing happened until his move. Even FC supporters posted to that effect at the time. He would not have got away with things with Tim Sheens. Radford must accept a lot of responsibility for allowing the situation tobdevelop. How can a coach allow a professional rugby player be overweight and unfit? The TS effect was also seen in the slimming down of Mose Masoe. He is now capable of doing more minutes more effectively than he did whilst at Saints.

Like Pearson said, he’s free to leave.
Probably best for all concerned

FC reportedly offered him a 2 year contract extension, he must have impressed to get that. Pearson’s spat reflects that. Cover for Kelly if the concussion problems don’t go away? Either way, he hasn’t done himself any favours and timing is awful. Whichever way you look at it he’s first choice halfback now and not excelling in the process. I like him but he’s taking an awful long time to mature.

Just what do you like about him?
Never seen him take on the line.All he has done is receive the ball and hand off to a forward.
Big left foot boot but not even a good goal kicker.
He is another Championship level player

Nail on the head. Under Tim Sheens though he transforms into Thurston.

I'm not sure that even in his trimmer form JA is an 80 minute half back. His better attacking performances for Hull have often been coming off the bench and taking on the line after the arm wrestle stage. Defensively he struggles late in games. Being fit for Super league is a lot different from the Championship and I wonder if he has engine for the higher level, no matter how hard he trains. Some players (indeed most people) just don't have it.

As back up halves go we have Connor, an England International at 23 and Abdull at 22. I can see why a fuss would be made if Connor had asked to leave.

I spent a couple of hours with Abdull at the end of last season - he'd loved his time at KR, he was playing in his preferred position of half back and his girlfriends family were all KR and they all enjoyed supporting him playing in their team. At that time he was unsure what the future held other than Radford wasnt letting him leave though from what he said i think he wanted to stay at KR then and not come back to FC to be a bit part player. At KR hes almost a big fish in a small pond, at FC its the other way round

Let him go with no hard feelings imo. Lets not do what KR did with Taylor and block him from coming here. Were better than that

I spent a couple of hours with Abdull at the end of last season.

Are you a journalist?

he is not coming to kr and when he played last year in the championship he was ok that's all ok radford obviously judged he was better than that but found out he isn't his mess your player end of story