Exactly because of what you've just said. He creates 1 or 2 tries for a stretch of 4 or 5 games, and everyone suddenly claims he's "carried us singlehandedly" for the entirety of the year.

I understand that Horne has been brilliant at times over the years, but I'd go as far to argue that Seymour put in the same stretch of comparable performances at the beginning of last year (including Magic Weekend and a few others), yet he didn't get the plaudits that Horne currently is. I put this down the assumption that the majority of Hull fans would prefer Horne to succeed more so than any other halfback, because of his loyalty to the club. This is nothing but blind favouritism.



It's obvious to see that the Wakefield game has kick-started a run of form, but I'd have to say the biggest contribution to that win was Heremaia's influence as halfback, (as he created most of the try scoring opportunities down the left-hand-side with Lineham and Crooks - Horne's contribution being a deflected grubber kick) and not only Shaul's try while we were looking quite shaky, but also the performance and enthusiasm he showed that lifted others in the team.

The problem is that the nrl and union have a cap double that of rugby league, this gives them the opportunity to poach the best players from our competition. Next year there are already some big names heading to the nrl...how many more to follow. Also our clubs now have little chance of bringing in any quality Australians because they can get paid alot more back home. While this maybe great for the up coming youngsters who will now get a game, in the big picture, can super league survive. Crowds are dwindling, sponsorship seems to be very hard to come by, and the people steering the ship seem to have few answers

On the other hand, very few clubs could afford any increase in the cap, so you'd either get even more of a gulf/monopoly than there already is or clubs going pop as rapidly as bubble wrap through a mangle.

There is only one answer, and it's to produce more players through the youth systems. The only questions are whether this can be done enough, and how in the hell scaling back to the 19s system will help to achieve that?

Basically no club apart from Leeds can survive without a sugar daddy so just bloody scrap the cap and let the sugar daddys pay for the best players before SL is just a league of players nobody else wants.

Horne
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