I only put Ah van in at centre as i believe he has the power to braek tackles and draw in players to then offload to the winger, IMO he is not fast enough for the wing.

kearney
platt
royston
lulia
ah van

From the Newcastle Herald



Dunno if its true, but hopefully this keeps an overseas spot free for someone else

he doesnt take an overseas spot but he does take a non fed trained spot. effectively he uses up a quota spot.

you have brought in a 9 who was has been average for a number of years including over here when you have houghton. And dont use the mickey mouse call up for the ANZAC test the guy has mediocre written all over him, cannot even claim potential! you also signed phelps did you not. dykes im sure he played for you. matthew head? get out of here troll.

Ill also leave it to Mick Potter to comment on Briggs potential and not some fc clown. hows will sharp doing brainbox?

if hull can fiddle their way into having a full forward pack of overseas players im sure we can work him off the quota

leave it theres no point wasting time mate .
they sign westerman and sharp because they cant produce their own young players

no we cant. have a look at post I made on page 2 of this thread for a breakdown of how our quota and non fed trained spots are filled.

Oh yeah Sharp world class signing right there

Doesn't matter how good your overseas players are if your not brining any juniors thorugh, which for some reason Hull aren't. Bradford are bringing just as many juniors through as any other club, we don't have any more overseas players than anyone else.

Will our new signing be the next Hape, or a flop. Who knows, ALL signings are gambles. I would say the signs are good as he is young, big and looks to have a superb attitude. He isn't holding a youngster back as we don't really have any youngsters coming through in that position.

whos on the non fed trained?

sharp is the best winger in the game what are you laughing about ?
heck nrl teams were queing up to sign him...but no hull beat them all of to get his prized signature.
well done , must have been to learn from the master coach that is richard agar

kearney
l'estrange
lulia
ah van (if re-signed)

Fiddle you have only one less overseas players as us?.

Difference is that we have better quality imports than you, which can be seem from the Exiles game, in which we had 3 starting.

Also we had one youngster we have brought through in the England squad.

2 players in the under 18's squad and 5 in the England under 16's team.

Hull IMO have 2 imports that are poor in Phelps and Lauaki, Obst is Ok the other 4 are top quality.

Bradford have 2 quality imports in L'Estrange and Kearney, the rest are average.

I have been impressed with some of the early signs of the Bradford youngsters, be interesting if they would get a game if all your players are fit.

One thing I do agree on is thats that Heremaia is a pointless signing for Hull, unless we release Obst.

And Herbert (if re-signed)

What nationality are Danny Houghton, Joe Westerman, Danny Tickle, Ewan Dowes and Lee Radford?

All this and we're still above you in the table. What does it say about you?

When we signed Obst, the Wakefield fans were gutted they lost him instead of Jefferies - Obst isn't an amazing signing but he's better than Ben Jefferies. Similarly Phelps, he isn't amazing but at least he got a game in the NRL and the SL Champions whereas Shad Royston could only get a game in the the Championship until you signed him.

Wonder where he stands on the 'mince-o-meter'? and how long it will take him to get on it - about half a game?

Yes above us in the table by 1 whole point - what does this say about you ??

We have a terrible coach.

But as most of you FC fans are stating your squad is alot better than ours, so regardless of your coach, if you players are much better then why only the 1 ahead of us ??

PS. Your points diff doesnt mean you are good at attacking just means we have been very poor defensively - but that being said your results arnt much better than ours based on pionts, so how do you establish that your team is better ??

Or is that just your OPINION

Ofcourse it is my opinion

. However, it is backed up by a few facts. We have scored my points than you. FACT. We have conceded less points than you. FACT. We have more competition points than you. FACT. It is the opinion of others that our overseas players are of a greater calibre than yours. FACT.

On paper, our team is so much better than yours. That is my opinion. Do you not feel the head coach makes much difference?

Im not saying they dont make a difference when clearly they do, not aiming this at yourself as i know a few FC who want Agars head and their decision will not change however, there is alot of fickle FC fans who want him out one minute then when you have afew wins they say well maybe he should be given another go.....................

But mainly i believe (which is just my opinion) that it is down to the players and their attitude to the game, because once they are out on the park if they revert from the game plan there isnt much the coach can do !!!

that's ace!

when I'm stating facts next time I'll use that.