I think Sue Smith is still the PA to Adam Pearson. He won't have an email address that takes unsolicited mails. Email sue.smith@hullfc.com and ask her to pass it on. FWIW, IF Radford is sacked/leaves, Motu will be put in charge until a successor is found.

I think Sue Smith is still the PA to Adam Pearson. He won't have an email address that takes unsolicited mails. Email sue.smith@hullfc.com and ask her to pass it on. FWIW, IF Radford is sacked/leaves, Motu will be put in charge until a successor is found.

www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull-FC- ... story.html Sounds like hollow words now

www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull-FC- ... story.html Sounds like hollow words now

What if Crooks doesn't want to play for Hull ?

Then we need to ask why. He was happy enough last year.

Last year he didn't have the accolades he has now and an agent telling him to cash in on them.

Good answer Kosh. If that is true then it's very disappointing.

Rumours have been circulating for a while that he wouldn't sign an extension and his agent wanted more money than we thought he was worth. Sounds sadly familiar TBH.

Players like that always end up fooked. Agents are not there for career advancement - they get their 15% and are happy to push paper.



You'd think his father would be savvy about it, but if he goes, it's no big loss. Wingers and centres are abundant, particularly ones who don't have suspect defence.

Maybe things have changed ? I just threw it in for balance really - not claiming to know owt but it's not always the club at fault in these situations.

If Crooks demands for a new contract are deemed too much and he can get better elsewhere then let him go now for a fee or get him to play out his current deal and he can move on then. However until he leaves I can't see the logic in freezing him out. He's still getting paid and remains a capable player, better than some of the alternatives we have tried in the centres where the policy is anyone but Crooks. Not playing him for what seems non playing reasons looks petty and spiteful and I can't see how it helps Hull win.

It was a fair comment to throw in. Whatever the reason is (if there is indeed and reason and it's not just rumour) then the club should be asking themselves why he wants to leave and what they could have done to prevent it. Presuming they want to prevent it.

The thing is, if I was him I wouldn't be signing a new deal unless it was for the money I wanted in his shoes, either. At the start of the season he'd just won YPOTY, was in the reigning dream team, and been handed the number 3 shirt. Hull will have had excessive value out of him last year whilst he was probably on a relatively low wage, and he was probably backing himself to have another good season and strengthen his bargaining position. I can understand why he'd hold back on committing himself.



Since then we've gone down the pan quicker than a lead turd, with him not getting a great time of things seemingly, so he's possibly got some new and just as understandable reasons for not being keen on staying.



What is slight potential to worry to me is this new stance on player worth. We've apparently been paying over the odds recently, but are now possibly going the other way and treating it as some sort of unbreakable rule that players have to be paid what we deem fit or else be hounded out of the building. That's possibly cutting our noses off to spite our faces. Being sensible, any decent deal for a player worth having will end up with a club paying slightly more than they'd like and the player earning slightly less than he was hoping for. The trick for the club is for good coaching to improve the player enough to 'recoup' the extra money.



Obviously I'm not claiming to know any details or making any judgment on who is right/wrong in this specific circumstance.