Can't have a team full of superstars, to be a top team what you want is your 'average' players to work hard and get on with it week in week out to the same standard which is what Hadley does. Every team needs players like him.

spot on

To those Hull fans who may not be aware, your tickets allows you to stay on and see the Sheffield. Toulouse game which is scheduled to kick off at 17:30.

if our game was middle of summer id be tempted, but temp is forecast for 4 degrees during the day and drop to freezing as dusk falls, so ill give it a miss lol

Why thanks! - I'm quite happy with our squad this year, think we can make the 8 again and maybe more if we can capture some consistency!

As for a beer, I'd recommend either Spoons in town (about 15 -20 min walk) or the Ruddy Duck on Doncaster Road (5-10 min walk) Although away fans often seem to like going in the Duke of York on Agbrigg Road - roughest hole in Wakey but when its full of rugby fans its ok!

Agreed, so out of our average players, hadley wouldnt be in my 17. I liked having pritchard on the bench personnally, agree he wasnt always fantastic, but felt his presence made a differance, and I felt happy having him there, cant see any bench filling me with confidence this year. Possibly mini on the bench as someone suggested would work

Who else is average and would go in his place? I'd have Hadley starting with Washbrook, Mini and two props on the bench at least while the weather is shiite

Presuming radford goes, watts, taylor, mini, manu, ellis, then bench, thompson, washbrook, green, bowden. Dont think that bench will worry to many teams, maybe swap thompson or washbrook with connor to give us more options, even michaels or carlos, depending how radford goes. Hadley obviously going to get plenty of game time, just hope I see what the rest of you do, because im obviously missing something. Or maybe not, remember having the same discussion about westerman for sooo long, having to defend houghton when some off you wanted rid or at least wouldnt mind if he left

Two weak links in the FC team most keep posting - Id rather see Conner for Tuimavave and Turgut for Hadley

Right now, Hadley over Turgut is a no-brainer unless Hadley has dropped off badly and the other started pulling up trees.
5-6 games in, maybe, or even if injuries crop up early, as we know Radford absolutely has to rotate the forwards much more even if that theoretically 'weakens' the 17.
I also don't get the beef on Thompson, as I said previously, he came to as a utility back, played centre for Cas quite a bit and is now playing a pseudo prop role. He's nimble and can still do some minutes despite being asked to tackle down the middle. Yes he's missed some tackles but you're asking a lightweight forward that was a back not too long ago to mix it in the middle, make tackle busts and tackle the big boys and does a pretty good job of it too, not perfect but more than decent enough.
Honestly don't know what else you expect of a player that isn't in the upper echelons of the salary ladder and isn't touted as one of our best.
unless he goes right off the boil and/or one of the youngsters can do 500 tackles/32 tackle busts a season I'd definitely keep him for another contract.