Not absolving Michaels of tries conceded down his wing, but since Easter Monday Carlos and Connor have played at Centre, would it be fair to say that is part of why we havent conceded so many tries out wide like we did Wire A, Salford + Leeds H, having a centre who the winger can trust and rely on in certain situations

Makes a massive difference that why Griffin was dropped

Agree, but you only use stats to try and prove a point and totally disregard them when it doesnt. Your a wannabe coach dave , with no inside knowledge apart from what you get from easthullfc , who as suprisgly! Disappeared! You may fool some , but no way me. Bring easthullfc back, your becoming obsolete

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Exactly the type of post I expected from you.

listen to the radford interview re the salary cap increase

I did and we'll be spending up to the increased cap next year so your point is irrelevant (as ever)

Barnstorming first half from him again. Superb.

I've seen a couple of mentions on twitter that he has signed for West Tigers

Sounds like a done deal. A great shame as after a slow start last year with an injury he's been excellent for us. It's no real surprise that he's caught the attention of an NRL club and he can't be blamed for returning there.

At least we have found out early in the year and can look for a replacement.

He'll end up playing along side Rankin.

He's more suited to SL.

I think your right on this, hes been great for us and in sl, but doesnt mean he'll be as affective in the NRL, can see him doing a season or 2 then be back over here

Great game again yesterday. Good players will do well in any league but I get the point that he is less structured than might be required in the NRL. However he's improved the power in his backfield running since joining us and that will go well there.

Perhaps so, but would you want to be a big name in a small league or an run of the mill player in a bigger league earning twice as much?

Fair play to the lad, all players want to play at the top. The NRL is that.

if so gutted, but he goes with my best wishes and thanks for the last 2 years,

He was excellent at the Storm as a very young man, I fail to see how he'd struggle with a further two years development under his belt.

Will be a massive loss to us but as has been said previously, this is the risk you run when you sign younger players from the NRL. There's always the chance they will outgrow you, best of luck to him back in Aus.

He wasn't, he showed flashes of very good play mixed in with inconsistency, poor reads in defence and a few important errors.

If he was that good Bellamy wouldn't be playing Chase Blair in the centres.

We'll agree to disagree on Fonua.

The bit about Cheyse Blair is irrelevant though, you're always going to have to balance the cap when you have Smith, Bromwich, Cronk & Slater on your roster. The fact they signed cast offs like Blair & Ryan Morgan is testimony to that. I'd hazard a guess that we were willing to pay Fonua a good chunk more than he'd have been able to command at Melbourne at the time. Much like he'll be getting offered massively improved terms if he were to return to the NRL next season. He didn't come to Hull for the sunshine.

Fox Sport in Australia saying that West Tigers had today 'finalised deals to bring both Mahe Fonua and Corey Thompson to the Tigers".

Towards his end of his time there he went from a interchange player to dropped. He hardly played in the 2nd half of the season. Storm can always find decent money for outside backs, addo Carr won't be on peanuts, so my point about Blair isn't redundant because it isn't about money. Blairs more consistent and doesn't make the poor reads and errors Fonua does. That's why he plays for Bellamy.

Fonua has been fantastic for us. He goes down as legend because he was part of the CC winning team at Wembley and I'd waited 42 years to see that having started watching FC at 18. If he goes well thanks lad because you've done very good for us. When we signed him I thought he was not good enough. Way too prone to errors but in SL Jesus been great. He will go back a better player. If he stays for this sason and goes back after we win the Grand Final well that will really top it off. Need to keep Sika. Need a good hard mongrel in the pack for next year and we will be fine. Hope Motu has got us sorted before he goes

Sika has had a good season so far.Wouldnt surprise me to see him also return to Australia at the end of the season.Big loss if he goes

manu is 30 and wasn't going well in oz before he came over here so I'd be surprised if he went back

agreed different situation to fonua

Good, unsung hero for us, hope he stays

Manu wouldn't get an NRL deal now. The weekend he was announced, he was named on the bench for Penrith so I watched the game, and he had a nightmare! So glad that he has turned out to be a real unsung hero - a better version of Adam Maher