and my bench would be
Lauaki
Moa
Manu
Houghton

Starting pack of
Dowes
Berro
Cusack
Fitz
Radders/Burnett/Tickle
Washy

Is pretty handy too.

For me Lauaki's aggression is something we have been missing for too long since Kearney who added abut of grit & steel. Too many games we have been a soft touch and the opposition have bossed us. Lauaki for me will no doubt give away some penalties but no more than Thackray or Carvell did however the physical presence will be much more of a positive to the team than a negative.

No place for O'Meley?

We are going to love it next year, after the handbags on Friday the crowd was on its feet chanting 'we are hull, we are hull', best atmosphere in ages.

Oops, O'Meley would be starting in place of Dowes.

Precisely. Hull's support is at its best when there is plenty of pride and passion to get behind. Mix that in with having some characters in the side to 'worship'

and you have potentially got the recipe for getting the support right back behind the team. If Moa signs then the Tongan mafia certainly ticks those boxes.

I might open a Tongan supermarket in West Hull. Should make a fortune!!

I can live with that !

as funny as,made me laugh.silverwoods still grinning and looking at radders just before deakin kicks the pen

Dont make him angry, you wont like him when he's angry!

He'll have to curb his 'enthusiasm' a little though , otherwise the penalties he will concede will piggy-back the opposition up the field.

Dave,a bit of enthusiasm is all we have asked for this season mate.

But it needs to be controlled, we've had too many "penalty machines" in the FC ranks, getting rid of King and Thacks should fix that.

Agree with that and hopefully his agression can be controlled and used at the right time within a game.

It is however, nice to see someone of his ilk taking it to the other set of forwards after this season as time and time again we have been too nice or bullied in the forwards and with the likes of Hame and O'Meley it looks like that is about to change.

Despite the O'Meeley omission

the porblem with that is we have to much impact froming from the bench and not enough at the start of the game, Manu needs to start imo.

Lauaki looked good although was not involved enough for me, he went quite a while without touhing the ball. Use him and Manu right and they could be very destructive together.

to be honest i cant see moa been here so manu off the bench with dowes/radford and lauaki.

Dowes will always be a starting prop and don't see what Radford can bring from the bench, so my guess is he'll start too.

cusack and o'meley are as well. radford for 5th prop for me doesn't need to be in the back row anymore as we have better alternatives.

If Moa is not here then I would reckon:-

Dowes
Berrigan
O'Meley
Radford
Fitzgibbon
Washbrook

Cusack
Lauaki
Manu
Houghton

I think that will be pretty much the first choice though i can't decide whether to start with O'Meley or Cusack. You need your best defenders on in the first 20 and whilst i know O'Meley can put big hits in he strikes me as someone who can provide better impact from the bench than Cusack.

Which begs the question, is Moa (as a quota player) a luxury we can ill afford?

I wouldn't sign him unless he was going to be played in the 17 every week, which i can't see. If i were Hull i would be targeting a decent 6.

The problem with that lineup is that it means playing Lauaki as a prop and I think he'd be better used in the second row. I guess you could get around that by moving Radford to prop?

Or Fitzgibbon.