rover 2000 wrote:not as easy as you think to just get rid of players who have families and bills to pay, and bring in 4 top level players just to please the fans, salary cap dictates in rugby and just throwing cash at it is not always the answer,injured players coming back next year will make a massive difference,the problem both hull clubs have at the moment is there are no standout youngsters coming through hence injuries take their toll
agree with that, particularly the part about the youngsters. Due to injury our young players have been given a massive chance to impress but have largely failed. I'd say Lane & Mantongo have looked good in patches so you could argue they have just been overplayed, but the others have looked nothing better than squad players.
Contrast to say when Cooke, King, Horne & later Yeaman broke through (largely due to us being skint and having no one else) and I was excited to see what was clear quite quickly could be international players. In later years you could see Tom Briscoe had 'it' but the current crop don't excite me.
