agree with this mediocre signing at best....
hopefully he does a job.

Still a young buck with plenty to offer ,can’t beat that experience he’ll bring to the club ,and hopefully the team will be that bit more competitive with this signing .

I never said he was mediocre, please don’t put words in my mouth.

Trust me my reasoning is completely different to yours. You seem to think Trinity has a ‘mediocre’ squad whose main aim is to avoid relegation and be mid table fodder as you continually state.

I don’t think that, I think we have plenty of quality but we totally underperformed last season even taking injuries into account.

Even without knowing the final team line up for 2020 I feel we are even stronger injuries permitting. This means that a player who would have been a huge signing 3-4 years ago is now just an addition, something I find very heartening.

Please don’t include me in your glass half empty routine, I’m a positive thinker at the start of a season, I don’t see any point in not being. To see your team as beaten before a game is played is the calling card of a loser in my book, sorry but that’s how I see it.

Can't wait for him to make his first mistake and the chants of "You Cas ********" to start.

I think if fit, he'll be a useful addition to the squad. Nice to be in a situation where we have:
Ashurst
Tanginoa
Arona
Batchelor
Crowther
Westerman
to choose from for back row forwards.

and when you look at his published stats he's played more games, scored more tries, had more try assists than the average of all of the above so has to be a positive move if he stays fit

Good signing.
Back up for 6?

Good player if he can stay fit.

That knee for me is a concern though, its been said it dislocates on a regular basis due to lack of ligament tissue. What happens when it wont go back in place, and could require surgery to correct it.

Another point to add, wasn't there talk of his career in his younger days of having a drinking culture, with the rumoured shenanigans with Pauli, is it what we want?

The knee is fine, it was actually a one off which makes the fact Radford said it happens every 2 or 3 weeks quite bizarre although I am sure this was just Radford trying to make light of the situation at the time. Good thing is, Joe knows he is a little bit unfit and is willing to work as he knows this is likely his last contract in the top flight if he gets it wrong.

Leeds and Cas were in for him, Leeds withdrew there offer for whatever reason late in the day. Salford, KR and Catalan were also after him but he wanted to be back in WY.

Good player, poor attitude, just look at the amount of clubs he had in the last 5 years.

Started the season well, but as soon as knew he was leaving Hull, put the cue of the rack.

What excuse did the rest of the Hull team have?

what a load of tosh

Fair enough, you probably watched him every game like me.

Good player though, just a poor attitude, Hull X2, Warrington, Wolfback and now Wakey in 5 years.

If he attitude is right he will do well.

There is a difference between being out of form.and lacking effort, probably why he was dropped the last few games

sour grapes as you didn't make the play offs, conner is the one with attitude

So you are saying that I'm that angry that about us not making that play offs (which we certainly didn't deserve) that I'd come on here to mention Westermans bad attitude. At least Connor shows passion but gets frustrated, his effort cannot be questioned he sometimes try's to hard.

Why has Westerman had so many clubs recently?

If I had sour grapes I wouldn't be saying he is a good player. Let's see if Chester can get the best out him.

The thing that makes me doubt this is that Joe instantly knew what had happened and knew exactly what to do to rectify it. Add to that the fact that the medical team were happy to let him play on suggest to me that Radford was telling the truth.
I said at the time that Radders comments were a bit stupid given they were trying to off load him.

You've been posting tripe like this for years, not once have you ever had a good word for a player leaving Hull, you come across as very petty.

Any examples Vasty?

Just this season, I've said very good things about Chris Green, Jez Litten and Hadley. In the past I've said positive things about Reece Lyne and Jordan Abdul.

Tom Briscoe and Lineham, another two players who I was disappointed to see leave.

If players deserve credit they will get it, if Westy had the attitude of Green or Pitts he would be one of the best back rowers in SL.

I'll ask again, why has Westerman had do many different clubs in the last few years?

i would echo the westerman comments above

Really, really hope not. Very counterproductive to let two actual halfbacks go in one season and not replace them like for like.

Money probably.

I don't think so, warrington were laughing their pods off when toronto offered roughly if not more than what we paid hull fc for him, again his form dropped off like a stone when the rumours started that he was leaving. Plus our conditioner was quiet outspoken about him on twitter during his time at the wolfpack for being a lazy .

Back up. Like Millington , a prop, at Cas.

Back up. Like Millington , a prop, at Cas.