The heat is intensifying at Hunslet, where several ex-players are banding together in what looks like an increasingly vain attempt to stop former team-mate and self-styled crooner Steve Pryce from performing a virtual concert early next month.

The former prop will be broadcasting in the Parksidersโ€™ cause on Saturday 6 June, and a donations page has been set up to help boost the Befred League 1 leadersโ€™ coffers during the coronavirus lockdown.

But itโ€™s all a bit too much for Richard Baker, David Brook and Mick Coyle, and the rest of the squad of the 90s and early 2000s.

While supportive of Pryceyโ€™s fund-raising effort, his one-time team-mates retain what they recall as painful memories of him singing after matches and, most miserably, all the way back from games in Cumbria โ€“ and a `stop Pricey singingโ€™ donations page has been set up to back their cause.

But Stevo has now retaliated in kind. โ€œWe used to enjoy end-of-season trips to Blackpool,โ€ he said, โ€œwhen weโ€™d trawl around the pubs and karaoke bars.

โ€œCoyley used to sing the most boring songs, and in the most boring way! The rooms emptied when he started; everyone went to the bar or the toilet! All too often I had to get back on stage to set the mood right again.โ€

Hunslet fans and supporters of other Rugby League clubs and sport in general โ€“ or even those who simply care about nurturing and protecting the arts โ€“ are invited to get behind either camp.

Those in favour of Stevo singing should visit: https://hunsletrlfc.com/general/hunslet-legend-steve-pryce-to-perform-live-virtual-concert-in-aid-of-the-club/

 And those hoping to silence him can visit: https://hunsletrlfc.com/store/stop-stevo-singing/