Your signings smack of on and off field issues , though most of you are too blind to see it.

If you would take Feka and Paea over Costigan and Weyman , then fair enough that's your opinion.

It's not my opinion , nor is it the opinion of many , many others.

I'm not particularly defending the use of spin or even the level used by the club, just pointing out the sad inevitability of it. I long since passed the point where spin of any sort affected me one way or the other TBH.


The Smailes bit was just to indicate that not all the reports had come from the FC camp rather than to indicate a belief that Smailes is particularly expert at judging the fitness of ageing RL players.

Go on then, list them. I could do with a laugh





Rovers fan rates his clubs signings better than other clubs signings

I suspect wages would have made that impossible,

I'd rather have Masoe then all 3 but thats only on his form in the past 2 months.

No, i rate our signings above Hulls.
The reason ? Because our signings are clearly better.

Nobody gives a bud.

well our top players are jumping ship........ Sorry thought you meant list the dobbins problems

I still have no problem with his signing.

Weyman may possibly have not been affordable but he'll be very good for the Dobbins if keeping injury free.

who says Gentle will coach Feka?

Based on a Premier Sports subscription.

OK...

Same here , Masoe would have been a better signing . Hope we get somewhere the Bang crash wallop Feka or this signing could really bite the club on it's backside.

It's a different approach by Hkr but will hopefully pay off, their losing a bit of height and a offload in the front row though.

I got told he was history if we had lost to Cats.
We shall see after Thursday.

Costigan is past it. A bland player that will make no impact in attack but will make many tackles. Hull have the best defensive record in SL and definitely have no need of more players like him. He is the the one I'd like least at Hull FC.

Weyman is a great prop, as is Paea. Neither spend long enough on the field, and both can bend the line. I'd like both at Hull FC.

Feka is great for 10 mins if he's overweight. He's a low impact forward when fit - but our pack is so small, he'll probably do a job for us.

I'll refer you to an earlier post I made to you which included the word 'flying'. And although the original post was said slightly tongue in cheek - a concept that I feel you might at times struggle with - it's just a feeling I get based on the posters and what has gone before.



I think you've already shifted 15 points from the 'scraping the bottom of the barrel' position. But I doubt you care what I think in the same way I don't care what you think.

Welcome aboard the bus ?





The good thing about signing him is he will undoubtedly be the lowest earner on your clubs payroll..... including the cleaning staff, stewards, programme sellers.

It seems hulls poor attendance against the cats has made pearson snap into action to keep their fickle fans happy,and I would imagine the signing of paleaaesina is just what the doctor ordered to put their minds at rest.

Didn't AP say he was saving some cap for after the World Cup incase anyone sparkled??

No.

Are you not aware that with Premier Sports, we get to watch EVERY single NRL game? Hence the reason I know Weyman is decent, and Costigan is pants!

It was a bit of a surprise to see Feka's name when I logged on this morning. He caused plenty of teams problems when he played for Wigan, but just fell off the earth when he went to Salford. Made no impact at all.

At Saints I always thought we had his number, as the pass to him was usually telegraphed. Rush him early on his run and get him round the legs. It usually did the job. No need for big numbers in the tackle, but you had to catch him early.

Once his momentum was up that is when he was just like a juggernaught.

Ah, the old 'defend your position for a while, then say it was tongue-in-cheek'. Gotcha.



But as I pointed out, it's an utterly illogical one. Those same posters were probably just as negative when we signed Galea as when we signed McGoldrick. One turned out quite well, the other not so well. But you're choosing to ignore that fact and have a 'feeling' based on one half of 'what has gone before', whilst conveniently ignoring the other half.

As an aside, on McGoldrick, I think he was 'quite good' in the games he played for us without being anything special. I think he's rated a little higher than he perhaps deserves because many expected him to be crap and he wasn't, and because our halfback options were so limited at the time that literally anyone having a half-decent game was a welcome relief.



You don't think signing a player who (I would consider) has an 85% chance of being a poor signing is (in my opinion) scraping the barrel?

You'll be all disappointed when you see him, even If he has lost weight he's just not the same player without it, in 2012 at Salford he lost over 2nhf stone and was barley effective at all.
I work in Wigan and one of the old guys at my place is the farther of one of the academy coaches at Wigans wife. He said when feka was at Wigan he was only told to go on and take in 5 hitups and then come back off again even if it took him 25 mins he'd have to make those 5 drives and that was it for him, then he's go off and come back on near the end of the match for impact, thing is that Wigan team could afford to
Do that with him as the team they has could cover it Hull dont have the same depth of quality to cover Feka even Wigans team of this year probably hasn't.
I'm not making fun but be prepared to be extremely let down, abit like Daniel Holdsworth but a lot more let down.