Revenge of the Simms

Hull Kingston Rovers are fast becoming Salford City Reds of three years ago: a club doing well for itself after a lull, and full of pipe dreams. Today’s report that Darren Lockyer is linked with a move Hull KR harks back to 2004, when every Australian agent from Cairns to Kalawalloolagonga was linking their star clients with a move to The Willows—no doubt as a bartering tool to secure a bigger deal from ‘bigger’ clubs.

Rovers are a very attractive club for Darren to come to.Justin Morgan

You keep telling yourself that Justin. Just like we did when Craig Gower was ‘on his way’, before sodding off to rugby union and the lure of the French riviera. The Scarlet Turkey had their fill of this in the summer of 2005. Naturally—just as everything from the style of play to cleanliness of the toilets is, seemingly, Steve Simms’s fault—it was Steve Simms’s fault.