It may of escaped your attention, but the game is in dire financial stress at present, with numerous owners admitting the perilous situation. I’m thankful we still have a club to support,

And to replace one class half with another, is blooming marvellous. Then again I suppose you can please some of the people, some of the time, as they say.

Exactly under the previous coaching we never utilised the players to their strengths or had any real attacking structures to play the edges, invariably the centres were used like temporary forwards to give front row a breather. We never got quick enough ball to the edges and even when Pritchard was here we wasted his talent by simply using him as an extra prop. I think under Hodgson we will see Sneyd and Reynolds being a much more influential pairing who will create a lot more opportunities for the backs. Hopefully gone are the days simply relying on a maverick play and kicks to the corner and we will now have the opposition 2nd and 3rd guessing our attacking line to create openings.

Agree with you re Inglis Mike.

Inglis there is no questioning his talent but he is now 34 and has not played in 2 years as he retired, so whether he can replicate his previous levels of performance is questionable its a very small list of players who can rediscover previous form when coming back out of retirement with many simply calling it a day again. As for Reynolds not playing its a completely different situation as he was still training and playing reserve grade only being kept out the 17 due to the coach preferring Marshall who was playing well so the two situations are nothing like each other.

To be quite honest I'm not that wowed by Naigama either as playing in the St's side they have I thought he would have been much more prolific and whilst Tupou is a good centre I think both Carlos & Griffin are better than him. Percival and Gildart are as has been said are probably the 2 best centres though Percival to be fair has had a bad year injury wise, other than those two there anent many others Id have in front of Carlos or Griffin to be honest.

Tupou


He had one good season, put Carlos in Wigan and Saints side you would see how good he is, hard to be really creative when you are getting passes from Sneyd and Shaul, imagine what he would be like if he played with Coote and Lomax.

Hopefully he will improve further with Connor and Reynolds and a new style of rugby.

We signed Ma'u last year who was an international.

I'd rather judge players on how they play for us rather than the past pedigree.

Who where better players for Hull

Minichello or Pritchard
Mcmenemy or Kearney
Best or Sing
Blacklock or Talanoa

Pritchard was a huge flop probs the top 3 worst value for money signing ive seen in my 25 years supporting FC..... Mini was a great player he wins hands down

Kearney was better was awesome in the year he was here but I thought mcmenemy was very under rated and was a great buy

Best deffo sing was a disappointment

Blacklock out and out try scorer but both good

Also Internationals I was more aiming at Aus/Nz

More rubbish. Are you for real?

I know he maybe didn’t hit the heights that he was hyped up to make but he was certainly no flop. At times the guy was just unplayable and one of the big factors in the clubs first ever Wembley triumph and success that season.

Had things been a little different and the coach used him where he was most affective and devastating on the edges he would have had a bigger impact. Even off the field he brought something extra to the team that we lost when he left.

It’s just a shame he was never utilised better but that aside he wasn’t a flop.

Sounds about right.

Based on some posters on here, I'm amazed we're not languishing in League 1 (or worse), what a terrible 10 seasons we've just had,

Unplayable you having a laugh

The only good game he had was against rovers in the friendly

He was brought on the pitch not to get everyone to do a huddle dance love after every win ( was the only thing he was good at whilst here )