He didn't score a try at all last season going by his stats, played 16 games.

Backs should score tries, not prop forwards. HE will give us real impact off the bench, and has a wicked offload!

Horne and co can score the tires off his good work!

Just in time for a Home game against rovers

So?

Going by the ratio of the last 2 games 60% of the tries went to the forwards


Hope his defence has improved from some reports i read.

I quoted a fact nothingmore.
And thus he scored 10 in his previous 53 appearances.

Manu & thacks only got 2 each as a comparison its hardly any different

Well done Hull FC. I think this lad is an excellent signing. It gives the club huge strength in the forwards. That said and I know the club have said he is not a replacement for Crocker I feel that he is an insurance policy should Crockers Visa be declined again. If Crocker does come the Hull pack will run riot.



If Crocker comes to Hull how do you think the coach will rotate the team around. Will Tickle play the full 80 because he is the kicker? Will Radders play at prop when needed?

Good Lord man I'm as excited as last years Mr Excited winner of 2008.

They approached him and asked him to ask as far as i know so that they could go for Eastwood.

I hope he really does well, are we going to rotate the forwards though. Who will get dropped? Does this mean Whiting will miss out completely?

Lauaki will probably play prop. Tickle, Radford, Crocker, Manu and Washy will propably compete for 4 spaces with us potentially using all 5 at the expense of Houghton on the bench for certain games.

It will cause serious competion for places at last. and if Sam Moa plays as well as he did in the world cup Agar and Sharp are really going to have some headaches over team selection

What ever way he got his release it still means we didn't pay a transfer fee for him

They were really close to salary cap so they will be gald to get him off the cap. Plus I think they have a youngster in there youths who has great potential waiting for a call up to the first team, who won't be earning much.

Come on lets not argue about him. He aint here yet !!!!

Because they are going after Eastwood so released Eff !!

Yup. All we need now if Crocker gets turned down is to be offered whoever they are releasing to free up their cap to sign him too.

Good business for us this year having space on the quota and the cap.

One of my contacts who sends me stuff from Australia for the Diary just read this weeks and sent me this, thought you might find it interesting!

Just heard about this on Channel 9 News.... They actually used the phrase "outstanding young talent is poached by cashed up Superleague side" during the headlines!

....."A huge signing for you, i've seen him play in the flesh and I'm amazed that the Warriors have let him go, although there have been rumours of difficulties staying under the salary cap over the tasman sea....

He's got the potential to be another Vainikolo or Apollo Perelini.... a player who makes his name in the UK, and stays for a long time. Best thing is, his work ethic is massive! He's no Hitro Okesene or Hutch Maiva, he doesn't mind getting his hands dirty, and he busts tackles like theres no tomorrow".

Despite what the club say I think this signing has been made with the Crocker situation in mind, If Crocker was here, i'm not sure that he would have been signed.

Not knowing much about him, did people expect him to play prop or backrow for Hull?

I don't really think he's been brought in to score trys (although seeing him getting a few wouldn't do any harm), this signing is more to do in beefing up the pack and impact of the bench.

Thats very very positive..things going well for us at last

Prop.

We'll use him like Wigan use Feka.

Prop.

A tackle busting forward, whats one of them then?

Type Andy Ireland into Wikipedia and then you will know