I hope he has got over it fully. Otherwise he might be lethargic and ineffective.

Phew!

And for Radford.. "Flu" which might explain his quick exhaustion.

What an update from the club - it's really not going to help the rumour thread - or this one. has anyone heard about Cooke coming to FC? FACT!

sarcasm alert!!!

While I dont think anyone would argue in hindsight that it was a poor move, I think that is an overstatement, first of all whos to say that if he had stayed at the club in the mess it is in now he would have become the player he is today becuase he has vastly improved, although still overhyped in my opinion, at the back on end of the 2006 especially and a lot of the 2007 season Motu was the better the fullback at the club, his form in our grand final run in was awesome and the Leeds away game in that period was one of the best ever individual performances from a Hull player I can remember, had it not been for the injuries this could have continued.

As much as we all hate saying it the Rovers move was great for Briscoe, he left us when we were in a serious slide after Cooke left and wasnt replaced, to a team moving in the right direction and looking to better itself, when he was here he was a great support player and gave his all but was very flawed in defence and he also let the ball bounce like Motu gets slaughtered for, he now seems to be a very solid fullback and very confident, I question if he would have progressed like he has at rovers if he was still at our club now with our negative rugby, poor coaching and general lack of player confidence at the club.

TELL ME YOU ARE FOOKIN JOKING !!!!!!!!!

Has been rumoured for months. Really really really really really unlikely though.

Anyway, good news about Motu's injury not been as serious as first suggested.

Post of the week

I'll admit Im not a fan of his, I think he's terrible at full back but just for that try alone at Cardiff he will always be remembered fondly by most Hull fans.

please tell me you are joking about the parts in bold defensively brisoce was brilliant for us and very rarely failed to catch the ball.

going forward his support play was brilliant the only thing holding briscoe back was his passing of the balll as he couldn't join the line as effectively as other full backs.

Letting briscoes go was the worst decision in recent history IMO and i will never forgive sharp for fletting him go

ffs people

is it not time you moved on.

Unfortunately they won't. I wonder if most people will ever move on.

Why?...If anyone wants to talk about Knocker,I am always willing to listen.

I would like to agree, but it is a (or one of the) contributing decisions which put us is in the position we currently find ourselves IMO. Therefore its still relevant, like it or not.

You hoestly think having Briscoe in the side would have made a difference to having no go forward, no game plan and a clueless coach?

He'll have to start wearing his pants on the outside of his shorts if you can back that one up mate.

I remember him often letting the ball bounce, and he was a poor tackler one on one. As for Sharp letting him go, he rejected a contract becuase he was advised wrongly that if he got an England call he would get a bigger contract, which didnt happen and we didnt have time to stand around while he made his mind up, if people said Cooke wasnt in a position to hold the club to ransom Briscoe definetely wasnt.

Wasting your time with that one, mate.

After Motu has gone there'll be regular threads about 'Superman' v whoever the next full back is.

I preferred Prescott to Briscoe but never once brought it up when Briscoe was at the club.

Um, I'm not sure that is what I said. I mean, it was a mistake, one of the bigger ones at that (from a rugby point of view, in recent seasons) and one of many, that has put us into this situation in the first place.

While I'm under no illusions regarding Briscoes abality, he definetly is the type of player that we could have done with in the last couple of seasons.

I guess the one thing we will never know is what his wage demands were, without that it is very difficult to evaluate what went on.

I don't think there will. Tony wanted to play full back when both he and Briscoe were at the club, and as a result Briscoe was played out of position had some relatively unsuccessful games at wing and centre, because he is an out and out full back. My suspicion is that, had Tony not been at the club, we'd have probably offered Briscoe a bit more cash and he'd still be here. That's why there is this "head to head" thing, as effectively the club backed Tony for FB (and I don't think Sharp really rated Briscoe either).

This has proved to be the wrong decision in hindsight as a) Motu's a very good player but fails in some key FB basics, b) Motu's had some horrendous luck with injuries and has been unable to play for extended periods since Briscoe left and c) Briscoe's made a decent enough go of it at Rovers to warrant international selection.

In hindsight, we should have kept both, used Motu as the utility back and then we wouldn't have needed Byrne and could have used his quota spot elsewhere.

Summed up perfectly especially the last bit. There was no need to ever recruit Byrne at the club. Major recruitment error.

I agree with all of that. Well summed up.

New full back will make both of those look average

would you care to elaborate Brother.

Or not signed Berrigan and continued with Motu at hooker. Glad as I've been to see Berrigan play here, we didn't need a hooker particularly at that point.

Oh, and Briscoe was offered a contract to stay and chose to reject it.