fosdyke99 wrote:what is it with hull coaches of the last 20 plus years,they seem terrified to bring young scrum halfs in.its that bad i cant remember the last young 7 we brought through the ranks that was a success.we havent had a top class local scrum half since chris davidson.last one of any note was probably phil windley.both years ago.
Don't think Horne/Cooke were too shabby during their time at Hull, admittedly Cooke went onto play loose forward, but he did feature a lot at Scrum half, too.
I don't think it's that coaches are scared, I think we just haven't produced quality players. MacNamara and Kebab have been okay. Hookem didnt make it.
You could say that youth coaching is the issue. Or our falling catchment of players. But if the quality isnt there then there's not much you can do at first team level.
I've watched a few games this year and think Harman, Medforth and Charles look decent. But they don't look SL quality right now in the way Balmforth did. Let's hope that changes.
Dave K. wrote:Even with payouts (which at most would be Evans and Griffins salary) we still be a couple of hundred k off the cap.
And crowds have been surprisingly good, I expected a dropoff just due to the economic crisis never mind our indifferent form. Playing games on a weekend seems to have helped, particularly with getting a few more away fans in. The derby also got its best crowd in years so that was a few more quid in the till.
C for Cuckoo wrote:I don't think it's that coaches are scared, I think we just haven't produced quality players. MacNamara and Kebab have been okay. Hookem didnt make it.
You could say that youth coaching is the issue. Or our falling catchment of players. But if the quality isnt there then there's not much you can do at first team level.
I've watched a few games this year and think Harman, Medforth and Charles look decent. But they don't look SL quality right now in the way Balmforth did. Let's hope that changes.
Theres always been a tendancy in youth rugby to focus on the kids who are physically bigger who stand out because they are taller/stronger than the rest. This also happens in Football too. The smaller skillful players get overlooked. The result is as a city we seem to produce hard working hookers and props.
The challenge for RL is young kids will want to play Football, its more pooular and more lucrative, even ending up in non league football likely brings in more money than SL squad player wages.
Sutcliffe can't be 100%, still cringe with Lovodua in the halves, could be a rough night. They've got everything to play for and we don't have anything apart from pride, hopefully we'll still turn in a good performance.
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