Roll on that Bradford friendly

I was at Scott Taylor's testimonial event recently when Sam Burgess was a guest. Someone asked the panel why Houghton never had any international recognition and Burgess said sometimes it's just down the coaches personal preference. Some players get picked regardless of form, the coach just prefers them or they suit the coach's style of play,

Tommy Martyn and Lee Briers as a couple of examples had very modest international recognition despite both having great club careers.

Look at Wane at the last World Cup…he picked Mcllorum,who is on par with Houghton imo,not great rd the ruck but good defense and tbh Houghton had 3 good hookes ahead of him during his career and Ackers has come through who is very very underrated.

Houghton is a good lad

The flogged to bit is just a myth even when he gets spelled he only does the same thing just tackle and the odd 10 meter scoot when opposition on the back foot

When in reality a lot of the time a 9 with pace would be a try

Martyn and Briers were good but likes of Sculthorpe at 6 were better options

Sculthorpe was world class
Martyn and Briers very good but not world class

Whilst I agree with your point that Sculthorpe was a world class player the rest of your post is questionable.

Sculthorpe was one of the best LF to have played the game and whilst he could play stand off to say he was better than the likes of Martyn & Briers in that position is very questionable.

The post is nonsense, both Martym and Briers were better halfbacks, Sculthorpe was a fantastic 13 though.

Been realistic. What league position do you all think we can achieve next season ? I think we could have a big improvement in the forwards. I'm a little worried in the backs. No out and out 7 and I don't think Hoy's hamstrings are going to last long enough.

He couldn't play loose forward as we had a guy called Andy farrell playing aswell

Tommy martyn and briers isn't getting infront of

6. Sculthorpe
7. Long
13. Farrell

They didn't point proven

6th, last year we were awful, recruitment has been ok but not brilliant, other clubs have recruited well and will also improve on last season

Nope, mainly it was one of Farrell or Sculthorpe playing in the backrow.

I've just looked at teams for the world cup and sine tri nation games.

Stand offs where Harris, Deacon and Mcguire.

Led to believe we are closing in on the 8K mark for passes sold, great numbers with over a month to go.

Great to see that fans are willing to stick with the team and that every game being on sky hasnt affected ticket sales

It's bad in a way though, as with everyone renewing I couldn't get a pass nearer to my family than I had last year.

I hear that Lee Crooks is the new Player Welfare Officer, replacing Feka.

Bradford lost to fev today.

Still fancy them to beat us. We'll be sending out a young team and they'll have played Fax and Fev by the time next Sunday rolls round. I'm won't be going but I'm banking in Bradford uploading the full game on YouTube a day or 2 after

Feels good to finally say its game week again.

Not seen anything regarding tickets so I assume pay at gate is available?

Expect 2-3 of the younger lads (not promoted to this years first team squad) to be on the bench this Sunday.

Would like to see Dawson get a go in the centres

I expect a young side to get a hard game from Bradford. Tempted to go along just cos it's been ages since I was last at Odsall. We've got a big 1st team this year so we can pick a decent looking side. Something like this.

Logan Moy
Harvey Barron
Davy Litten
Roman Dawson
Lewis Martin
Mackenzie Harman
Morgan Smith

Will Gardiner
Denive Balmforth
Damel Diakhate
Charlie Severs
Zach Jebson
Nick Staveley

Matty Laidlaw
Jack Ashworth
Jeylan Hodgson
Sully Medforth
Lennon Bursell
Jack Charles
Jude Thompson

Litten will be full back I would have thought, think Medforth will start at 7

Can't see Damel being fit

Litten is 3rd choice fullback but 4th choice centre. I think we will see more of him out wide than at the back this year. We are a bit light at centre. We havent produced one in ages.

What's up with Damel? I thought I read he was gonna play.

I didn't think they would play him first game due his injury last year - I didn't think he had started pre season at the same time as the rest, but could be wrong

Wouldn't mind Litten playing half a game at full back and half on wing.

Think Fash and Cator will get some minutes too

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... fc-9021585 Sounds like no Litten for the Bradford game. Darnell is back too

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... fc-9021585 Sounds like no Litten for the Bradford game. Darnell is back too