With regards to Bret Hodgson how many years has he got left on his contract at Hull FC?
I've just posted this on the Rhinos forum and wondered if any of you had heard any whispers?



I won't be naming the former player as I was told in complete confidence, But he did say that I could post this rumour
What a smashing lad he was and plenty of banter was exchanged too, So perhaps this was one of his wind ups?

Was the ex-player Lee Radford?

No

Josh Reynolds?

https://twitter.com/dantomlinson92/stat ... MO3KQ&s=19 Fwiw I think Dan is on the money here

https://twitter.com/dantomlinson92/stat ... MO3KQ&s=19 Fwiw I think Dan is on the money here

Don’t do twitter, could you tell me what he said please?

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Quote ="Armavinit"Don’t do twitter, could you tell me what he said please?'" https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... n=sharebar Here you go mate

Good read. Nice to see a sensible well thought out piece.

I think its all the recent years of promise and then disappointment that is a big cause of the fans impatience.
I know rationally there are lots of good reasons for the current state of play but its hard to shake off the feeling of "Here we go again"

That for me is the nail on the head, for far too long we have been promised jam tomorrow and whilst nothing is ever guaranteed we have fallen short once too often and the seasons always seem to follow a similar pattern in which we fall away, so not sure its impatience as we've been waiting for long enough. I feel quite disillusioned not just with Hull FC but the whole game itself, now whether that's in part down to the lockdown (or the lack of the Dentist Diary these days

) etc I don't know but think the game has lost something along the way.

It always seems to be the same issues blighting us and then the same tired excuses as to why we are still way behind the likes of St's etc. Its not like we have expected things to change overnight but think enough years have gone by now to have moved forward but its deja vue and same old just a different season. The only real positive this season is the acquisition of Riding and Shenton who seem to be doing a great job with the young players youth side of things.

We still lack quality in the halves which seems to be an eternal issue for this club, don't appear to have much in the way of attacking structures and once again look bereft of any idea on how to get over the line when Connor isn't in the 17 other trying to barge over the line as we've lost the Sneyd kick to the corner option.

Maybe I'm just getting old and being pessimistic or both but the club in general just seems a mess as very little communication comes out of the club these days either which is something that needs rectifying as many fans feel cut off from the club nowadays.

we seem incapable of finding young local halfs.when we signed sneyd in 2015,whatever his faults ,it was the first time for a few years we had a number 7.very rarely injured or in trouble with the disciplinary.from 2015 till 2021 we had a settled scrum half,during those 6 years it gave us the perfect time to gradually groom a young number 7 to take over when sneyd departed.2021 sneyd leaves.have we groomed a young local number 7?.no we sign a well past his best 33 year old .says it all for me.i cant remember last time we had a local scrum who held the position for any length of time.probably phil windley from the 1990s.

Horne or Cooke where the last ones we had, think it's a problem within the UK game.

Same could be said for hooker too. Houghton has been our first choice hooker since Berrigan?

Could have had Litten, but Radford messed that up.

Excellent, thank you

I'm not that fussed about the Litten deal, but it's certainly an area that has lacked investment.

Denive should be the next cab of the rank at 9, and can be helped by Hookem and Joey.

We had an excellent young scrum half who practically beat Wakey on his own on debut but Peter Sharpe roasted him for moving out of his defensive box

Then sold him on, probably led to his career stall. Recently retired. Anthony Thackeray.

A really good Championship player. I don't think his lack of opportunities in Super League were because he got told off once by his coach.

Our next scrum half was supposed to be MacNamara but it's not working out so far and his back injury is a big blow. If he can recover from that then he might be our future 7.

On Saturday we can see how Hookem does after last week's snoozefest. We can't be much worse ... can we?

anyone remember the young scrum half we played a bit a couple of years ago.came from rovers?he scored a good try against them.dont know where he went.seemed promising

Liam Harris. Went to Halifax or York?

thats him.cheers.seemed a good prospect to me.

another young player who everyone tipped to be the real deal was harry tyson wilson..wonder why he never made it?

Could be any number of things.

A lot happens to kids between 17 and 20. To be a Superleague player requires exceptional physical and mental attributes. While kids might show potential, that is no guarantee that they will reach it.

Good coaching can help. I wonder what the success rate in Australia is from turning academy kids into NRL players. And I wonder how that compares with SL teams.

I think McNamara is a lot better than people on here give him credit for.

Think he would be surprised to read that he is retired, seen as though he is still scoring and assisting most of Sheffield's tries this year!



He is retiring at the end of the season though!

Also, sometimes it is a players choice not to be full time, and turn down advances of SL clubs - especially if their day job is pretty lucrative and a SL contract wouldn't match it