Perhaps your problem is you think that one player makes a team? As that is all we are talking about here, one player. And you're talking about a team?

Even before we were actually playing well this season, Yeaman has been by far one of the few stand out players for us. Says something in a poor side.

I don't like Yeahman az e duz not pass the ball ded gud like Shenny or Meli

We don’t have many, that’s for sure

I think the closest thing we have to a classic centre, one who looks to make space for his winger with clever positioning, running and good handling is Bridge... all the rest are in the ‘athletic’ category... which is not a bad thing if we build our game plan around it (actually, that’s a disservice to Shenton who is also a pretty good all round centre). What I would really like is the strong athletic centres who were also wingers centres – like Miles, Newlove and Meninga. Luckily, it seems that Australia and New Zealand aren’t producing these players now either

Or, it could be that I’m getting old and falling into the ‘wasn’t like that in my time’ trap... who knows!

But Briscoe still has 7 tries for the season, so Kirk needs some credit for that too.

From watching Hull this season it looks like Yeaman is passing far more to his winger than he ever used to.

Not letting your Rovers bias towards him allowing to slip in there?

Edited for accuracy.

No need to justify him mate.Look at the leading try scorers.

One thing you can say about Yeaman, and probably the main reason for his popularity amongst Hull fans, is that he has a hell of alot of heart, he will never give up and will run and tackle as hard as he can for 80 minutes. He's hard as nails too.

I think it does him a dis-service to say he's slow too. He's no flyer but I've never really seen him found wanting for pace. He's probably on par with Shenton and he's certainly quicker than Bridge.

Maybe you should try & lift your Rovers bias for a minute, & take a look at the tries he scored over the weekend against Wire.

\Good to see you have something to add of value as always. Be you sit in front of a mirror thwapping away at your own brilliance.

pretty prolific,scored 124 in 238 games so often not needed to pass! but one of the biggest myths around! raynor had tremendous try record outside him and briscoe racking up a good 1 too! defence wise he is probably one of the best! shooting out of the line is his trade mark! had understanding with raynor so was covered when it didnt come off,getting that with tom now as well! but comes off more times than not! plenty of players been left on ground and even gone off after been hit and dozens over the years have lost ball when in good positions cos they know whats comming! on current form he's got to be a definate for exiles game!

Stats aren't everything but a quick comparrison (mainly for our Rovers supporting friends)

Yeaman vs Welham

Tries 11 vs 10

Assists 1 vs 1

Offloads 11 vs 5

Tackle Busts 36 vs 25

Clean Breaks 12 vs 6

Missed Tackles 13 vs 33

Other than Briscoe there is no real quality in our English 3/4's

Apart from Mcgivallrey(sp), Foster, Charnley, Shenton, Tomkins, Lomax, Williams, Bishop to name a few

Looking at the England and Knights squad, I think we have a number of three quarters who have the talent to become genuinely world class (if they are not there already)

For me, the young players I hope will come to the fore and make the England backline a real threat are Jones-Bishop, Welham, Arundel, Broughton, Charnley, McGilvray and Watkins

Add to this the more established players Briscoe and Sam Tomkins (who should be in the first group as a future talent but are established internationals), Shenton, Clubb, Bridge, Fox, Hall and Cudjoe

The potential backline below is full of talent

Sam Tomkins
Briscoe
Arundel
Watkins
McGilvray

That may not be the back line for England this year as Bridge and Shenton must be in line for the centre spots but it looks good for the future

Proves my point, cheers

Yeaman is a very good english centre and although a little disrespectful to my club if he'd have played for Saints, Leeds or Wigan over the years he would imo have scored shed loads of tries and proved to other supporters of the game what a good player he is. He hasn't always got the service he requires at Hull due to the fact that we haven't had 2 half backs since 2006.

Martin Gleeson is a complete different class to Yeaman as FC fans will soon workout for themselves. I rate Shenton and Bridge also above Yeaman and would also play Joel Tomkins there before him even though he has'nt completely adjusted to the centre position as he has the potential to be imo the best English centre by some distance. For the Exiles i'd go with ...

S Tomkins
Watkins
Shenton
J Tomkins
Briscoe

I dont think Gleeson will be playing again for England even though for me he's the best English centre we have. I rate Watkins and he looks a classy player but is'nt experienced enough or composed to play at centre yet he gets exposed way to often at centre.

Why do people keep picking Watkins?! What has he actually done other than play for Leeds?

I've just watched his four try haul against Wakefield on Super League TV

Two well taken finishes and two very good kick collections for tries (an area that we always seem to struggle in against Australia and New Zealand)

I think Watkins is a real talent and will do very well on the international scene

Some of those have potential, but compare them to some of the Aussie youngsters and it may as well be another sport they are playing. Ben Barba for example is a long way away from International selection but is streets ahead of anything we have.

As an aside other than been a good kicker what has Foster done to warrant the praise heaped on him?

Some of the handling that Foster has displayed in finishing his tries this season has been exceptional

If the try he scored against Leeds was in the NRL, people would have said it was a different class to anything we have here (much as you have posted above regarding Ben Barba)

It was a good finish I agree, but not as difficult a skill as the sky commentators would have you believe. Other than that I've never seen him do anything that's made me think, yeah this kids good.