Hull FC new recruits line up for pre season training HFC are clearly banking on "experience" for next season! Galea - 34 Ellis - 31 Prince - 33 www.couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl ... 6499647170

Hull FC new recruits line up for pre season training HFC are clearly banking on "experience" for next season! Galea - 34 Ellis - 31 Prince - 33 www.couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl ... 6499647170

don't panic

Scott Prince at 31 is a good signing.

Think he might have got a 4 year deal which is stretching it a bit, but I'm sure the 4 years was the clincher

The word from down under is Prince is 32 years old.

So according to this thread, Prince is either 31, 32, or 33?

He's 32 but will be 33 by time next season kicks off. Shame they didn't get him5 years ago when he was a decent player.

Lynch is 33

And has probably the best engine in the league.

On the other hand, whilst I havn't looked into other teams, Hull must have the youngest 3/4 line in Superleague. Avarage age of Briscoe, Yeaman, Arundel and Lineham is 23.3, and if Yeaman picks up a knock and Ben Crooks plays left centre it would be 20.8 with Briscoe the elder statesman at 22.

I'm 45

45.75 to be exact

Huddersfield's 3/4 line up of
Cudjoe 24
McGilvary 24
Wardle 21
Murphy 23

Could certainly challenge the Hull one......

How old are
Lee Briers ?
Brett hodgson ?
Jamie peacock ?
Steve menzies ?
All have which have just signed new deals so dont get your point ,

Prince(if it happens) , Ellis and Holdsworth will be the biggest signings in sl for 2013 so can you all try and hide your envy please . Green really is an ugly colour

BEL13VE

Manu to Saints is bigger than Holdsworth.

Quote ="JB Down Under"Hull FC new recruits line up for pre season training HFC are clearly banking on "experience" for next season! Galea - 34 Ellis - 31 Prince - 33 www.couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl ... 6499647170'" Smell the fear from the Rovers fan Warrington have done pretty well with Morley (35), Briers (34), Hodgson (34), Carvell (32), Higham, (32), Monaghan (32), Waterhouse (31). Prince will be a great signing - Dally M winner as recently as 2010. I appreciate you are buzzing at the high profile signings of Tuimavave, Caro, Burns and Brown.

Quote ="JB Down Under"Hull FC new recruits line up for pre season training HFC are clearly banking on "experience" for next season! Galea - 34 Ellis - 31 Prince - 33 www.couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl ... 6499647170'" Smell the fear from the Rovers fan Warrington have done pretty well with Morley (35), Briers (34), Hodgson (34), Carvell (32), Higham, (32), Monaghan (32), Waterhouse (31). Prince will be a great signing - Dally M winner as recently as 2010. I appreciate you are buzzing at the high profile signings of Tuimavave, Caro, Burns and Brown.

I will raise your Manu with a Gareth Ellis .

looks like the green eyed monster is well and truely alive and kicking within our poor relations!! convieniently forgets to mention johnson, arundel and crookes!

never mind eh, maybe we should be signing cast offs and no-hopers!

I'm 60.3. Don't think I'll be playing for Hull next season, though.

Or even 2 years ago when he won the Dally M award



It's a bit rich coming from a fan who team signed Stan Gene when it was in his 40's.

How old was Allan Langer when at Wire?

Prince still 8 years the junior of Steve Menzies, a positive rookie.

Throw in the signings of Watts and Pitts whom were not at Hull at the start of last season and the average age plummets.

Since that start of last season, Hull FC have released/lost 10 senior players.

McKinnon (31)
O'Carroll (25)
Martin (34)
Sharp (26)
O'Carroll (25)
Manu (32)
Moa (26)
Turner (23)
McGoldrick (31)
J. Ellis (23).

The average age of this group of players is 28.

We have also signed the following 9 senior players since the start of last season:

G. Ellis (31)
Galea (34)
Prince (32) (Assuming this happens)
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Johnson (24)
Crookes (22)
Arundel (21)
Pitts (22)
Watts (22)

The average age of these 9 players is 26.

This is 2 years younger than the average age of the outgoing senior players.

Whilst the squad has lost quality players such as Manu and Moa, you will be hard-pushed to find 3 better signings than Ellis, Prince and Holdsworth.


This post isn't including youth players such as Lyne, Pearce, and L. Cunningham leaving. This is due to them all being replaced internally by academy players, and also due to the emergence and performances of Crooks, Kent, Green and Bowden from our academy.

Disclaimer: There's a chance that I've missed out players, but I think that I mentioned pretty much all of them.

You'll be still classed as a junior, give it a couple of years and they may start to show some interest!!!!!

Except you have counted O'Carroll twice and McGoldrick could be on both lists but probably neither for the point you are making, which probably moves the average age of departing players down. It seems, broadly speaking average age will be neutral. I don't recall Hull's team being too old last season, so that is probably fine.

In reality Ellis looks a damn fine signing, Prince would only be considered a risk due to length of Contract, a good 2 year signing would have attracted far less comment, so perhaps 1 year of risk there, but no doubt a calculated risk.

I am not convinced that Holdsworth's signing on its own would figure on most observers top signing lists, but as a complimentary signing to Prince and Ellis it looks more astute.

Hull next season will be hoping to avoid injuries to a core of players (Lynch, Houghton, Ellis, Prince, Holdsworth, Briscoe), to balance cap thet must be thinner elsewhere to invest in that quality, there must be a lot of salary cap invested in that group and a couple of long term, concurrent injuries to that group will be difficult to cope with. But then again which teams can cope with loss of multiple key players?

Dads army? Probably not, but if the plan works for you who cares?

Whiting is a very accomplished centre and Horne could play there at a push so I aren't worried there. Wing is more of an issue. Briscoe is world class, and Lineham has the makings of been world class imo, but both him and Crookes are reletively unproven at this level and if they do struggle we don't really have anyone else.

I have faith in Tom Lineham, he has only played 4 first team games but a couple of sides have already found him too hot to handle. However if he doesn't develop or we get a couple of injuries I'm not sure who can fill the gap.

To be fair, worrying about who Hull are signing, takes Rovers fans minds off who's next to go in the Craven Park fire sale. Or who they are signing next from Batley.
At least Hull's NRL signings have played more than half a dozen games in the first grade this year.