For 2025 I fully agree, and it's important we see green shoots of recovery in 2025 to keep the momentum of the takeover going.

But what I meant was we also need to be careful 2026 isn't the same set of players another year older. Though when I think about it releasing Sezer and pairing Sneyd with someone younger could be an option (can't believe I'm already suggesting yet more pay offs but hey ho )

This daft marquee rule. Because Mikey Lewis played for the city of Hull Academy. If we signed him as a marquee would his wage only count as 50k on the cap?

It's never dull is it!

I can only assume Abdul was going to be out for a significant chunk of the year or was showing up so badly that the club don't see it putting us in any worse position even if we can't get a replacement in.

Nothing to do with playing for the academy, any non fed player can be a marquee and only 50k count on the cap.

So this would be Sneyd

Lewis isn't coming right now, and I'm going to be bold here and say I'm not sure he'd be the right fit now anyway he is working well adding off the cuff plays to a good structure. We don't have a structure adding a half back doing random off the cuff stuff might lead to the odd try or two but it doesn't fix all our issues.

The whole season if had the operation, which is what they wanted to do.

Knee injury a lot worse than initially said, Catalans should have sorted it out last year but they wouldn’t pay for it even though was in the loan agreement with rovers they was responsible for his medical bills. I said we’d struggle to get 10/15 games out of him didn’t expect it to be because he’s not here

Lewis would be an unbelievable signing, he has developed alot into more than just an off the cuff player.

I don't think Lewis will ever play for Hull personally.

Actually I think it's only 50k if the player is club trained but 75k for fed trained. So Sneyd (if he came back) would be 75k but Lewis (not that it will happen) would be 50k because he was at the City of Hull Academy.

That’s not true -
3 marquees
1 x overseas 150k anything above doesn’t count
1 x fed trained (eg someone like if you signed him Welsby) 100k
1 x fed trained through your academy 50k