Simon Hall

He is now.

They were only getting about 4k average when they got to a SL Grand Final so they don’t want to be putting too much hope into getting a good crowd should they draw a SL club in the cup. They really need to live within their means now and see where that takes them.

I designed 2 of those.

Craven Park, Barrow probably about 1995. It was a wall at the back of the stand you could look over while using and still watch the game. My dad went in just before half time and there was a bloke leaning against the wall, curling out a length of dirty spine, he finished and wiped with the match programme. My dad went for a pee, walked out to leave then stood in what the man had left on the floor, then another bloke stood in it as well to which my dad says "I've just done that". Nearly gets chinned until he explains it wasn't him who's DONE that, it's him who's stood in it as well. Spend the entire second half trying to clean it off his shoes. Enjoy your breakfast.

No, they just asked who fancied a go and said "come right in lads".

One of my favourites that. Went with a patched up team, Rich Hayes came out of retirement and played with one shoulder, Danny Seal came out of retirement and took the day off work, Aaron Woods was sent off after about 10 minutes, then we had it won, they we had it lost, then Alex Godfrey runs over a young James Ford to win it in the dying minutes. Great day.

We should merge Hull KR and Hull FC.

What?

Well that's awful.

Neither of those things will happen.

There'll be players crop up throughout the year as well, just look at our back 3 from last season who were signed later. 3 of the best players in the league, we'd never heard of two of them and the other not many would have wanted back after his first stint with us.

York aren’t doing all this on the temporary you know. They’re a full time SL club with a decent youth system alongside proper structured and funded plans for the future. This isn’t just a club who’s had a good year in the Championship and is hoping for the best for a season.

Rather that than a 30 year old has been who’s played 11 games in 3 years due to injury. You worry about yourselves.

Just had an email that they’re ready to collect.

Not tetchy in the slightest, my club is benefiting from this and feel free to ask all the questions you want, but at the moment this is happening as the choices were either carry on as before or try something different. Carry on as before and the chances are Newcastle would just get battered every week, probably struggle to see the season out and the local players would probably be lost, but some club fans would be fine with that cos it would mean they didn’t have to worry about defeat the week they play them, plus it might mean a few more decent players on the market or a few loans to be had. Try something different and there’s a better chance of young lads in the North East getting involved at a decent level, plus a SL club has its reserve players playing at a high level every week, rather than the odd game here and there on DR with clubs who might not do things how the parent club wants. How’s that a bad thing for the game?