I hope he has approached Tony and said he wants to play and will justify his selection.

No worries, got plenty more down the back of the couch.

Warrington has fleshpots ?????? !!!!!

He hasn't got massive potential, he is a good SL winger, great finisher, but lack guile and speed off the mark to be a great winger. Very naive defensively which hasn't improved in 5 years, I don't think he is very bright on and off the field.

I would have like to have kept him, but the money offered for a player of his ability was far far too good and we have invested wisely and replaced him well from within with a player with real potential.

54 tries in 68 for Hull ten in ten for Wire. He obviously has potential, he's young and still has the ability to change, if his head is in it. If anyone can bring him to his potential TS will bring it out of him. If he doesn't TS has shown in the past 12 months he will cut loose players not up to standard. In that case it will have obviously have proven the signing as a mistake, having said that, £140k is a big deal for Hull, it's not really for us, it would obviously though bring questions on TS decision making in signings.

During Smiths reign he cut loose both Penny and Riley for either poor ability, poor play, poor attitude and/or poor behaviour, personally I have no idea which, but they cost the club nothing but time and effort. Lineham has cost a fair wedge, we have seen over the years that dropping players with a hefty buy in fee doesn't always happen regardless of how bad they get.

He has never dropped an Antipodean player but he has form for dropping an English signing.... Richie Myler was dropped for the CCF.

Didn't he drop Rauhihi for the same match?

Sure did.

Shame Ormsby isn't with us.

Not sure if that was form or injury, I think Rauhihi was in and out of the team that season. Myler was definitely a shock as he came with a big transfer fee (£125k?) and the comparisons to Lineham are similar.

On another note I see George Rose is thinking about a comeback in SL, maybe we should sign him so Lineham can stand next to him on team photos and make himself look slimmer.

iirc Rauhihi was left out of the '09 final at the expense of Tyrone. Myler was left out of '10 final (his first season with us) with Briers and Monas playing in the halves.

Asotasi didn't play much last season, does that count?

Brett Hodgson for the Grand Final?

Hmm now then. Possibly but I dare say Smith would say he wasn't fit after having his head knocked off against Widnes.

We may never find out what happened between Smith and Hodgson.

It was enough for him to leave, have his wife slag the club off, him join Widnes and stop using Twitter.
More to it than we know or might ever know.

Thought it was Vinnie in the halves for Myler - and he did a pretty good job.

Vinnie was '09.
Just a minute, ten tries in 10 games is pretty good. His career record is pretty good. Let the lad sort himself out in the next couple of weeks and he'll finish the season somewhere near the top of the SL try scoring list.

Played for Rochdale today along with Philbin. Scored a try. Let's hope this was the kick in the pants he needed.

Big enough target....sorry, couldn't resist

Two tries for Lineham this afternoon but Rochdale could only manage a draw with Toulouse.

Good result for Rochdale that. Bookies were giving Rochdale a 12 point start.

That could indicate Tom was the difference Paul.

Just had a recap through this topic. Although early on, raising concerns alarmed a few posters, it transposed that we were unfortunately on the money.