In short: you are Gary Hetherington and I claim my £5 (million...)!

im a hull fan and i think you need to have a good clearout,get rid of the average players and build around the quality you have,it only takes a couple of players to get into the comfort zone and takes effect on the rest of them.

Who is responsible for the shiite weather? Is that Bullpower too?

OK Adey - sorry, my apologies. Thanks for this reply - probably kinder than I may deserve at times!

We went a way to doing that last year.

I think over the next couple of season as the youngsters develop we will see more of the average ones leave. Hopefully Sheriffe and Worrincy will leave after this season (unless they up their games a hell of a lot) and then Sculthorpe the year after when the Burgess twins are ready. I also hope that Sykes is only given another one year contract for cover if he is extended further than this year.

You want Sykes to get another year????????????

As cover. He's home-grown and can't be too expensive. I'd hope he wouldn't be getting a regular spot though.

I'm worried now. I mean, up till now I thought it was all rubbish, and ME was just off on one of his trumping exhibitions, yet the culprit has so obviously completely altered whatever the above post was, that even a myopic bat could see it has been tampered with.

What is going on?

sheriffe has alreay shown a pretty significant improvement over last year I feel. He's been one of our better players last 2 games although I know that isnt saying a lot. If he could just improve his catching skills a bit, but as long as continues to improve he could go alright. Tend to agree about worrincy though.
starting to doubt we'll ever actually see sculthorpe in a bulls shirt tbh. sykes is good cover but not a starter for mine , and counts as homegrown, but only if he's prepared to accept a cheap deal and as his next contract could well be his last I suspect he'll go to whoever offers most money/longest deal.

plus nero will be getting on a bit at end of season. 2 have to priority for signings next year for me, irrespective of how crookes goes this year.

Sheriffe certainly showed he is out for a big season. He has improved no end in defence and attack and I hope it continues. Well done for the effort Rikki.

If it were a choice between Sykes and Nero then I'd opt for Sykes every time. His versatility is a valuable asset, not to mention he's a better centre than Nero aswell. Sykes can be very good on his day because he's got pace, strength, agility and he can tackle too. He's also a pretty smart player when he thinks, just wish he'd think a bit more and faster on occasions.

If Beaver re-signs then we don't really have to much to look for in terms of recruitment IMO. Providing we re-sign Langley which should be top priority IMO, then we've got a pretty settled pack. All the young lads will be a further year developed and more experienced so that would be pretty good cover. Just sack Nero, Sculthorpe and Worrincy off, bring in 2 centres and another prop.

If he plays like last night every week I'd give him two.

(has to do that more than twice a season though)

As you say Sykes needs to show he can have more than one good game in 10 but he did alright last night and ran a good angle for his try.

He was good last night, and defence down that side seems to have improved no end. He also ran another good linje off of Menzies' ball to set up Kearney.

I find it amazing supporters want to slate Sculthorpe when the guy hasnt even pulled on a shirt for us yet

As i understand it Nathan Brown wanted to retain him at Hudds, but hey, what does this guy know? Maybe he should use the experts on these forums for his recruitment tips aswell?

As far as i am concerned if Sculthorpe has picked an injutry up in training, these things happen in our sport and i wish him a speedy recovery and hope that when he returns, sooner the better, he can bring something to the team that will add an extra dimension.

Here,hear!

Barring a minor miracle i think this thread will probably be needed again in an hour or so.

And Steve McNamara is walking on water

Hahaha.. Well i didn't rule out a result ( Probably should delete game over at half time comment ).

But not for the reasons you anticipated...

What a difference 40 minutes makes...

Keep it quiet but he's won eight of his last ten...

A legend in the making............

Five games in level on points with Leeds and Saints. If this run can be repeated in the next five I look forward to ME joining the back-Mac crowd