Hull FC<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe pair had been working their way through the ranks at the Black and Whites but they have made the jump over to east Hull to join up with the Nathan Cayless’ Robins.<\/p>\n
Rovers started pre-season training on Thursday and the pair have already been involved as they push to work their way towards making Super League debuts.<\/p>\n
Kassim, a former Skirlaugh Bulls junior, is a tall centre, who can also play in the back-row and he’s signed a three-year deal with the club to demonstrate just how highly the Robins rate him.<\/p>\n
Middlemas, on the other hand, plays on the wing and he joins up with his brother Theo Middlemas at Craven Park having signed a one-year deal. The 19-year-old played for West Hull as a schoolboy.<\/p>\n
The pair will straddle the senior and reserve squads at Craven Park, but with Cayless making his determination to work with Rovers youngsters clear, they’ll hope to be able to push their way into his first-team plans down the line.<\/p>\n
The pair are just the latest to move from the Robins to Hull FC, with Ryan Westerman completing the switch earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Cobie Wainhouse and Jack Charles have also joined up with Rovers after coming through the youth ranks at Hull and the pair will be among those looking to take the next steps in their careers next season under Cayless.<\/p>\n
Rovers have moved to strengthen their youth ranks over the last year or so with Flynn Holden, Tom Whitehead and Declan Murphy also pushing for opportunities this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rovers have secured the signings of two Hull youngsters Elliot Middlemas and Rio Kassim have joined Hull KR…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[20805,20372,5903,20370,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-834443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-hull-fc","tag-hull-kr","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-league","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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