were you re-employed in the same industry having being released for "personal reasons" by a previous employer a fortnight before?

I remember someone being off with stress in my first job around 25 years ago. No one had ever heard of stress related illnesses at the time so our boss sent him a fruit cake to cheer him up. How times have changed

So he has a full medical and passes that...we know he has issues as the club looked into it.....so your saying he shouldnt have the same benefits as the other players or should he do a 13 week trial to become permanent member of the team and then get his full benefits.

We signed a world class centre who was available and its not worked out so far...we are supporting him through his problems...personally cant see anything wrong with this...you just have a agenda about this and its a bit pathetic if you ask me.

fair enough, you think what you want.

I do thanks.

How did he react when he answered the door to you ?

















Only kidding mate

Stress related illness is just new speak for depression, we have someone off at my place of work with the same, been off for 8-9 weeks so far on full pay, while the rest of us have to carry on doing double the work, the docs just sign you off straight away as soon as you tell them ur depressed, tell them they are stopping getting payed and they would all be back to work tommorow! too easy nowadays to take the p1$$, the sickness culture in the UK is rife.

Yeah, he got a bit upset when I took him the cuckoo clock I'd bought him

I think anyone who is on sick should only be paid SSP and only after the first week. Sickness rates would plummet overnight. My missus works somewhere that you get paid full pay for 6 months if you're signed off

Its a stress related illness - his doctor signs him off. What the heck are Hull FC got to do with it?

He is "unfit for work" - his medical advisors quite rightly don't get a flying monkeys who he works for, and his employers, like us have naff all rights to know sensitive medical information, directly or indirectly, ethically, legally - which ever way you want to put it. His has a right to privacy and a right to get better.

And suicide rates would rocket.

Has anybody considered that stress related illnesses in this country might be rocketing for many many reasons, including it been a pretty stressful society to live in. Family in-balance, recession, job cuts....

So, the answer to those problems is for the goverment to turn around and say, "You know what, lets try and solve that problem by telling all of those people that if they want to be depressed, we can only afford for them to be depressed for a week? That should sort out those "stress" related issues"....

I'm glad none of the recent posters on here work for the NHS or in the medical sector



At least I hope none of them do