Just been announced that hull fc have signed him on a 3yr deal

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Widnes offered me £300k but i thought i would look very average in a team where i had to carry the whole pack, however, Hull offered me £250k and with the chance of being in bigger games i took that.

He went for the best offer he could get fairplay to him. Why do Hull fans have to downplay that

Spot on jools. Brilliant post. The excitement about the Giants extends beyond the next 1 or 2 seasons....

WTF? Is it standard procedure for fans of a club who failed to get their target to immediately imply that the club who did paid way over the odds and couldn't possibly be a more attractive club than their own. It said in our paper that he will be on significantly less than £200k per season.

Exactly.....as good a player he is i would be quite disappointed if we did sign him and have to lose out on signing more potential youngsters for the future just for the sake of having one player for a couple of years !!

I think thats what Nathan has installed into our club - 3 or 4 years ago we would have been excited about having this one marquee player in our squad but now its almost a sigh of relief we didnt use a large chunk of our cap on 1 player.

I wonder if these big name signings are worth the dosh. Gareth has been superb in Oz, but so was Fielding before he went to Wigan, they paid a helluva wedge for two fairly good seasons and the remaining part of his contract for being in the sick bay. In retrospect - not a good deal! How many good kids could have been brought through for what was spent on him?
To my mind these are short term fixes which have repercussions in the long term.
The way the Giants are shaping up with all the young talent on show and in the pipeline, tells me that this is the way to go.
One marquee signing does not make a team, it's the other twenty odd team mates playing for their colours that will triumph in the end.