Tickle was a great player for our club, that's not in question. Would he get selected in the back row in front of Ellis, Mini, Manu (either of them)? Doubtful IMO.

For me Fitzgibbon was metronomic. Hardly mad a mistake.

He did he cost us a draw at Wrexham against crusaders when his attempt at goal hit the post we lost 18-16 & they was an awful side.

Won us a lot more, including the classic comeback against Saints

He did - in the home game against Widnes in 2012. We won 58-10 and Tickle scored four tries and kicked nine from ten goals for a match total of thirty four points - only two behind the all time club record set by Jim Kennedy in 1921. Tickle is fourth in the club's all time goal kickers chart and fifth in the all time points scorers chart. Impressive given that he was at the club during an unsuccessful time.

If you are referring to Tickle with this post, it could easily be argued that he won us the home game against Crusaders with a touchline penalty on the final hooter.

I'd never blame a kicker for missing a kick, thats generally not the reason games are lost.

Was meaning fitzgibbon at the racecourse ground.

Some good responses about Fitzgibbon,I personally thought he was ok,nothing startling,did a good honest job but just thought play slowed down with him at 13.Was a privilege to see a modern day legend play for us but just thought he was showing his age and career with us.If we did a overseas select,he would struggle to get in that in my team.

Was that the game that Brian Noble was kicking right off on the touchline

yeah, took a door off its hinges. Think it was first time I'd seen Childs ref us and he was truly dire, I'm sure we only actually scored 1 or 2 tries but came away with 20 points. Union-esque penalty fest where he blew everything for both sides.

This would be mine :

1 Shaul
2 Briscoe
3 Domic
4 Fonua
5 Raynor
6 Horne
7 Sneyd
8 Carvell
9 Houghton
10 Watts
11 Ellis
12 Minichiello
13 Cooke

14 Watts - Fitzgibbon edited.
15 Manu
16 Berrigan
17 Moa

I thought Sid Domic was excellent, maybe a bit past his peak when we signed him, but in terms of defence, on par with Yeamo but better with the ball, in terms of putting wingers away. Fitzgibbon was good too, but I believe from what Ive seen, that pack I've picked has better players in his position. I couldn't include O'Meley as when at his best, Carvell was awesome, it is always a difficult task to put these things on paper and I know I'll remember some players after the list is posted. I was tempted to put R Horne at fullback, where if he'd stayed I believe he'd have been an even better player, but I think his days there were pre 2006 , in that way I could have put Cooke to 6 and brought in Fitzy.

Watts twice, oops! Put Fitzy in then haha!

i think the toughest choice here is whether to go for swain or houghton at hooker. both tremendous tacklers getting through a mountain of work but swain edges it for me with his distribution game management and all round play, but it is very close

Personally I thought Jordan Tansey as worst fullback in past 10 years, he wasn't awful but recall in 2010 season he was first choice.

Tansey wasn't too bad at all for Hull and had some good moments. Indeed in the dire Agar days he was one of our few attacking threats. Bit of an idiot though who could have done better for himself. Worst was probably Phelps who was solid but not exactly spectacular but he wasn't a poor player either.

phelps and tansey were not bad players but never really got above average - kind of sums up the quality we had in the main for the years 2009 up until last year

Fair point, I've thought about the 2010 season and Tansey did have some good moments. Guess I meant he was one of our less naturally gifted full backs of last decade, but he still did a decent enough job.
Just watched a 24-24 draw we had with saints in June 2011. I was at the game, Sam Obst little chip over the top to set up a Yeamo try - one of the season highlights for me that year!

Sam Obst! The most directionless scrum half I've ever seen in the top flight. Couldn't doubt his effort though, literally ran in circles.

Obst was signed as an interchange 9 who was forced into the halves due to Long dislocating his elbow. Tad harsh on Obst who did a reasonable job.

I agree with your comments about Obst. Unfortunately he wasn't the only player in that era who was played in a position that didn't get the best out of their talents so that the overall team performance suffered. For example Washbrook in the halves, Fitzgibbon at 1st receiver and Berrigan anywhere but at hooker. Good players made less effective.

webster has to be the worst scrum half we've had

Chris Thorman must be up there as well for one of the worst halfbacks after that away game at Cas I think it was? Matt Sing was another quota player we didn't see the best of

To be fair to Thorman, he did have a couple of good games (away at Bradford in 2009 being one).

Webster played once (after much hype) and performed like a punctured tyre. 100% of games played = pants.

Yes I remember being at that match, Thorman was terrible that day at Cas, didn't he leave the pitch making gestures with his fingers towards FC fans as we was getting so much stick?! I'm sure that was the Josh Cordoba cameo match. Thorman was equally bad if not worse in the league defeat away at Leeds that season. Funnily enough his FC career started so promisingly on that very ground of Headingley in a pre-season friendly match, for JJB testimonial if I recall? I remember chatting to the FC fans who were there saying 'at last we have a halfback who will direct us round the park'

My word, Thorman was awful. I remember when we signed him thinking "he'd be a good back up half, let's see who our main half is." And then he got the 7 shirt. Just wasn't up to the pressure.

I was at Cas. Fans were very cruel. I think it was the start of an era of booing our own players for poor performances being commonplace (fans were very frustrated) and a big feeling of negativity being around the club. We were overcritical as fans and it was having an even more negative effect on players. I think, as a group, our fans started to tone it down after the Seymour incident. (Although it's easy not to boo your own players when they're playing well!)

Remember cordoba for a few reasons, starting a fight with fozzard at rovers, and nearly snapping someone in half in catalan. Gabbing to his girlfriend all the way to france was a decent experience to