I thought Luke Page was one of the players who'd turned us down

Just checked the list and his name isn’t on it. Funnily enough there isn’t any other names on it either.

Page or Lui is waiting for their visa?

I think he said page is waiting visa, yet lui was half back but page a prop

Dont worry Stan i understand Peacock has been issued with a new pair of boots

Little sympathy with Salford fans and the coach bleating about our conduct in persuing Lui.Remember when kockrash came in and all the dick waving and lording it about unlimited money and guaranteed success.Lui and Page and we look a fairly complete squad

Don't think Salford can claim any moral high ground here. Sounds like we approached their board through the right channels. Plus Salford were publicly criticised by Huddersfield and us for their handling of the Walne brothers and not letting them train with new clubs per the sports standard.



Lui would add a bit of x factor to the team. His wife tweeted along the lines that she wishes Salford would sell him so who knows if this is the end of this one or not.



Re Page, it looks like he would add something to the team but can't help but think we would be overdone with props and underdone with backrowers.

There is a list and it's massive Mrs B said so

Simple just turn a couple of our lightweight props into second rows

Simple in theory but outside of Greenwood that has already made the move I don't believe any of our props have the handling skills or speed to effectively move to second rows.

Well if true about page I think Tim knows what he is doing better then all of us

Trying to sign a rival teams key playmaker a week before the season starts is a little bit underhand, but hardly surprising. Desperate times, desperate measures n all that.



Luke Page - ran hard & looked aggressive for PNG. If he's any good for you, we'll pick him up in a couple of years anyway.

Who said we'd gone for him a week before the season starts? The bid could have been made weeks ago. The HDM only released the story yesterday and the club only made a statement after Salford released their statement in reaction to the HDM story.



Its quite sad that you feel the need to come onto our board. Your team are 2 times cup winners and have battled it out at the top of the league for the past couple of years, but you still feel the need to attempt to wind up fans of a newly promoted team who will probably be no threat to your team this season.



I guess you're having trouble shaking off that small club mentality. Oh well good luck for the season anyway.

DGM - Explain why trying to sign Lui is underhanded ?? Your club wouldnt stoop so low - would they......

thanks for your much valued opinion, ZZZZZZZZZZ so sleepy

Lui would be a very good signing for you guys, not only would it add a bit more quality to your squad but would also considerably weaken what are currently seen as your relegation rivals.



I remember Wakefield doing something similar a few years ago when they took Sammut and Scruton from Bradford about a week before the season started.. It`s a dog eat dog world, if its within the rules of the game it`s okay for me.

If you get Lui, you'll be real top 8 contenders in my opinion, he's class and there aren't many better than him available. suppose it all depends on how much you're willing to pay. If Marwan had been in charge, I think you'd have a better chance of pulling this one off; the fact that supporters now run the club might mean they're unwilling to part with their best player, especially after losing Ben MM.

1. Just because the story came out this week, doesn't necessarily mean that is when the offer was submitted

2. But it wouldn't be remotely underhand as I define the term, anyway

3. If we were to do something opportunistic and ruthless, I'd be utterly delighted. Trying to do things the 'right way' as defined by our rivals bought us a world of pain. We need to have come out of that with a more cut-throat attitude. We are here to make life as difficult as possible for our rivals in every possible way, so that we may one day sup on their tears

4. 'Humorously' playing up to the label of arrogance can, when it becomes routine and ritualized, become a mundane reality



Apart from that, I completely agree with you.

You didn't need to number your points, I'd have been capable of picking them out of a paragraph. Probably.



Ok, it's [ipossible[/i the offer may not have been made this week, but it's a reasonable assumption to make that it was pretty recently. I do see it as underhand. At best you manage pinch a rival teams (arguably) best player & stregthen, at worst you've disrupted a rival teams pre-season and unsettled their (arguably again) best player. It's a win-win for Rovers whatever the outcome, however genuine or realistic the offer, and I doubt you'd be so "utterly delighted" had similar occurred with a club coming in for Lunt or McGuire.



I assume the arrogant tag is in relation to the Luke Page comment? You may find it arrogant, but a precedent has been set in recent seasons and we can boast a lot of ex-Rovers talent in our current squad.

No, just as I'm utterly delighted to beat another team, but I'm disappointed when they beat us. I rarely, if ever, complain about the dog-eat-dog attitude of our rivals - certainly not as often as I bemoaned our failure to emulate it in recent years.







I also remember Wilf boasting of how rarely this happened in the past. But you're not him and tbf Hull are a undeniably a strong club now. I admire tremendously what Radford has done and how he has done it.

Whoever it is that we have coming in(awaiting a visa) I really hope it is a quality signing, as TS and NH have stated that,s what we are looking for, because on the display against London its obvious we need some more quality and quick.

London bossed the game for long periods and Sammutt walked through us too often. I know it was only a "friendly" but this was not a Super League team...All the guys round me were saying the same, we look lightweight. They were making ten yards almost every tackle at one point and were bullying us. Admittedly it changed a bit later on but the warning signs are there.

We need at least two to three more.. Please lets not go down the 2016 situation again.

Total agree ower attack looked so flat we need a quality half back and a good second row at least if that would of been agenst super league team we would of got hammered

Some are saying we would have got hammered by a super league team would we I do not think so so wait and see

Worrying

What winning our 3 pre season games