Lowdesert

Reserves, academy, foundation, women (relatively new) and wheelchair teams are all doing well. New facilities at Hull Uni. A lot going on that is good. First team is dire.

Again, not in his interests.

It’s not in APs interests to hang him out to dry Lee. The most obvious(to me and also someone else who mentioned it today) is that you don’t sack a coach without having someone to step in. Grix has already said he came to learn as an assistant. That tells me he is happy as an assistant at the mo. No names mentioned for a new coach as yet.

Yeah, the reason I ask is that I am unsure who else holds a similar role in RL and this will be a new role in Hull FC. Whether Mylers role will follow a job description similar to the HR generated format/requirements/desired skills you’ve kindly produced, or that there may be restrictions. Additionally, I don’t know what other help there is within the club. It seemed, from TS interviews, that he dealt with RL and his CeO dealt with everything else. If that is still the case, what work is still being picked up by that CEO? It’s a strange decision imo to sack the coach and appoint someone to work in a DoR role that had previously been done by someone else who is still employed by the club. Indeed he will need some good luck and a little bit more. There again, if his actual job role is a lot less than the script you’ve written, there might enough people around him to help or he will be able to delegate to.

I would imagine he’ll need to have a decent understanding of contract law but the clubs solicitors will deal/help with that. What experience should he have?

It appears that both clubs used different pitches so it’s a possibility there are unrecorded grounds not mentioned here. There is a picture of Jack Harrison on the wall, in the entrance to the gym at York St.John University. I’ve asked about 7/8 people if they knew who it was - none of them did but they walked over and read it. I think he was a teacher there at some stage.

From both websites, this is how both Hull clubs began. The Early Years Led by a certain Anthony Bradley, a group of ex-public school pupils, mainly from Rugby School but also from St Peter’s, York, Marlborough and Cheltenham, the Hull Football Club was formed late in 1865. Amongst the founders were Beevor Lambert, E.W.Wade, E.Waltham and W.H.H.Hutchinson as well as the five Scott brothers, sons of Rev. John Scott of St Mary’s. Two of them are known to have played in the early days of the Club. F.E. Scott also served as the President of Hull Football Club for a short period during its formative years. In a far cry from what became their traditional black and white, the early colours worn by Hull were of a striped cherry and white shirt with white flannels and a white cap, if worn. The first fixture arranged for the fledgling Hull FC was played out at Lincoln in early 1866 and further matches were arranged with clubs in Newark, Louth and St Peter’s School, York. It is clear that most of the very early matches were played as soccer games with 11 players each side, but it is not clear as to what rules actually governed these early contests but, generally, they were played out in accordance with home club rules, of which there was a great disparity. However, at the annual meeting in the George Hotel, Land of Green Ginger, on 20th October 1870, the decision was taken to formally adopt the rugby rules. Hull FC, like many clubs in their formative years, led a nomadic existence. Their first ground was at Woodgates Hall, North Ferriby, playing there for a short time from 1866. With the founding of new clubs in the far-off West Riding and in a measure designed to make it somewhat easier for those clubs to come and fulfill fixtures with Hull FC, the club obtained use of a ground at Selby, opposite the Londesborough Arms, to play some fixtures. In 1871, Hull moved on to play at the Rifle Barracks field in Anlaby Road, Hull, and it was at this time that they became the first Yorkshire club to attain membership of the fledgling Rugby Football Union. 1877 saw the introduction of the Challenge Cup. Hull were regarded as favourites to win it but were beaten in the semi-finals by York. They did, however, reach the Final in 1884 but were beaten by Bradford. Hull Football Club merged with Hull White Star in 1881 and after some years searching for a suitable location for a new, bigger, ground, they moved home in the autumn of 1895 to The Athletic Grounds in The Boulevard. Hull Kingston Rovers had been tenants there since January 1892 but could not afford the rental increase asked of them in 1895. This is how Hull KR was formed HULL KINGSTON ROVERS WERE FORMED IN 1882 BY A GROUP OF BOILERMAKERS AND STARTED LIFE AS KINGSTON AMATEURS PLAYING IN ALBERT STREET TO THE WEST OF THE CITY IN THE AUTUMN OF 1883. 1882 THE BEGINNING Hull Kingston Rovers were formed in 1882, as Kingston Amateurs, by a group of young workers in the shipping industry in West Hull. They played their first season in 1883/84, wearing red jerseys with a blue band, on a very primitive rented ground off Albert Street (now Gillett Street) on Hessle Road. The ground was known as ‘Flag Edge Touch’ because on one side of the ground the touchline was denoted by flagstones, upon which spectators stood. In its early years the club played rugby union – there was only one code of rugby in those days. Early progress was rapid; the team was successful, and it started to attract better players. The fixture list grew, and moves to better grounds meant that the club had six grounds in its first 12 years – all to the west of the River Hull. By the 1893/94 season, the club, by now known as Hull Kingston Rovers, was playing ‘out-of-town’ fixtures, had attracted its first ‘star player’ – England international back Sam Morfitt (pictured) – and was renting a ground at the new sports complex on the Boulevard. The club’s original nickname, ‘the Redbreasts’, because of the red breast area above a blue band on their original jerseys, developed to ‘Robin Redbreasts’ and then simply to ‘the Robins.’ 1895 was a pivotal year for the club. Hull FC, the senior club in the city at that time playing in East Hull, had taken a liking to the Boulevard ground, and offered to pay a higher rent than Rovers could afford. This meant that Rovers were faced with a big choice – stay in the west of the city and try to compete with Hull FC, or move to the east of the city. The historic decision was taken to buy the old Southcoates ground on Craven Street, and the club has remained in East Hull ever since.

Indeed. It will be just the same for most clubs, just to satisfy most of the audit. Token compliance.

It’s a great location but not for the running costs it appears to have, which are out of APs control. I think he’s quoted as saying also with continued support from HCC. Whether that ‘support’ is increased is another matter.

And that is what happened. It wasn’t a game of saints being poor (they had plenty of good position and play) but what they were allowed to do. Will we see a better try than Ashton scored? Fantastic game to watch.

Maybe on the bench but the other 2 are the future.

Yeah, I thought EW had called it a day and 100% with the big prop shortage. Clarke, no.

Maybe Stan Pickering… Seriously. It’s been a culmination things. Too many to mention.

Agree with this. They have had an excessive amount of serious injuries, some to key players. Secondly, they missed out on signing a decent halfback. Clifford was was very good but only for 1 year. Nu Brown has also been signed for 1 year. Continuity?

The new footprint is then to find someone who can afford to continue to pay big money even if the club doesn’t win the Championship? Do you think many rich people will commit to that ‘Blueprint’? Sure it’s going to be difficult enough to commit to all the audit requirements of IMG but that is what’s required now.