The failure of Hull's youth policy can be laid squarely at the door of the previous regime. Maybe Phil Clarke should do more research for the job he is paid to do. We need a full back, & Wigan have a good one who needs experience. No problem
His criticism of playing Gelling on Friday was embarassing as well, as he played really well.
I used to like Clarke's analysis, but he's been poor for the last couple of years.

liked clarky as a player and when he first joined sky was pretty good, just lately though he has been cack,

The classic one for me from Clarke last night was his incredibly indignant "I can't understand what they're making such a fuss about. They took him from Castleford in the first place" about us being upset that Manu was leaving.

Eddie and Stevo both speechless for once.

God yeah...what on earth was that about



Surely they would not be bothered if they lost Finch as they took him from the NRL in the first place

Gentle and Bomber really impressed with him from last night and could possibly be looking to try and keep him for the full season. When asked if a permanent deal could be on the cards, Bomber explained that he's contracted for 2 and a half years at Wigan and they wouldn't be trying to poach any player. HOWEVER, it would be hard for him to get a look in over Tomkins at Pies

The bloke does come out with some drivel. He goes for his favorite side of the night (last night Leeds) and backs everything they do until the wheels start falling off then back-tracks.
He tried to redeem everything he said against us towards the end of the game when we had it won, total prat.

That's the way I saw it too. He'd even managed to read Adam's programme notes on our youth development during the match so he could completely contradict himself after Ben Crooks had a stormer.

I seriously wonder if he's going a bit senile, he seems less and less coherent.

Stevo hit the nail on the head, he said we're obviously disappointed because he's a very good player the like of which is uncommon in SL.

The missus and I were in fits in the closing summary before they went off air when Stevo says something like "You need to do two important things in rugby league to win games..." and proceeds to only state one. Classic Stevo.

Don't care what anyone on SKY has to say.

We are were we are with our current squad.

We've brought Russell in fill a gap in our current squad. He had a great game last night for us and I hope he has a good month for us and if he stays longer I have no problem with that.

Ben Crooks was fantastic last night!

He looked very assured at fullback and injected pace into the line on several occasions. However I don't expect to see him play again as Horne will be back for London.

Sooner have Horne at 6 with Russell at F/B tbh.

Are you for real?

If we don't play him again this month we can kiss goodbye to any future loan deals with young players

If we can keep him for the rest of the season, I would keep him at Fullback, Horney should come back at 6 with either Whiting or Aspinwall replacing Ellis on the bench.

Isn't 4 weeks the minimum term for a loan deal? We might have made it clear that we only needed him until Horne was back, whenever that may be.

Wigan'll let you keep him but will recall him the day before you play them, he'll play against you and score a fantastic try and you can but applaud the little git. He'll then go on to be a first team regular for them.

With Tomkins demoted to under 20s ?

No, they'll play him in the halfs with Leuleui and drop Finch.

Drop Finch? You're clueless!

No, You are.

Russel has earned his spot, Horne needs to take it off him, not the other way. simples.

Josh Charnley by any chance?

If Russell's loan spell helps him develop in the same way Charnley's at Hull KR did then we'll be very happy.

Charnley is turning in to a stunning player.

Awesome player, watched the bit on him with Billy Boston before the game on Friday and he had nice words about Hull KR. Boston found it particularly funny that Wigan had called him back for the playoff fixture in which he then went on to score in.