Chris71 wrote:To be honest its more amazing that we actually won any games with training consisting of a whole 3 or 4 hours a day. Although we already knew that training was very lax with little to no structure in place and certainly no accountability in any aspect, it's still astounding to hear our thoughts about the previous set up confirmed.
And whilst Smith and his henchman paid the price quite rightly with the sack, why on earth didn't Grix make the changes to have them in for training full time........
In terms of talent and depth, there is no way the Hull FC squad of 2024 should have won only 3 games. If was pretty poor, but I thought it’d win something like 6-12 games, most likely somewhere in the middle of that range. There was clearly something else as well.
Tbh, for all that the squad has been completely changed, most of the inevitable improvement in 2025 will, I strongly suspect, come from better fitness and training around the ruck, rather than a massive uplift in talent.