At the end of the three years he won't be far off Paul Eastwood's post war record for points scored for the club. If he stays fit and we are successful he could beat it.

A centre/winger has to be the priority IMO. we're too weak in the outside backs for my liking. Think Fitz is a done deal.

If the jungle drums are to be believed...Fitz just signed for another 2 years.

jungle drums

Thought be just 1 but sure he could do 2 years

Vuvuzelas? Or are they just in football to drown out the England fans booing?

Really good news that some of our top players have signed new contracts,it gives stability to the side.Danny Tickle is a fine goal kicking forward of which there are few,well done the board for getting him to sign another contract.

Wish they would tell us who, if anybody, they have signed for next season.Be nice to get a big name signing,pay for itself with extra bums on seats.

Does the quota come down again at the end of the 2011 season ?

And thats what agar and the board want.

Excellent news, very pleased with this. Thought it wasn't going to happen TBH, delighted I was wrong.

www.sporthull.co.uk/headlines/HU ... ticle.html wants to win trophies and thinks he can win them by staying at hull

www.sporthull.co.uk/headlines/HU ... ticle.html wants to win trophies and thinks he can win them by staying at hull

It would not have been the end of the world had he left but he is a very integral part of what we do both in defence and attack and it is great to have continuity in our pack. His kicking is also huge for us so it's really good news he has commited to the club.

Ticks has just gone past Keith Boxall (one of my fave players as a kid

) in the points scoring list (70icon_cool.gif and is equal 13th with Arthur keegan on 729.
His biggest game points are 20 against Wakefield & Celtic Crusaders, the latter in which he scored his only hatrick of tries for us.
He has only failed to score points in 7 of his 99 appearances.
He needs;
22 points to surpass Clive Sullivan @ 750
65 points to surpass Sammy Lloyd @ 793
96 to surpass Garry Schofield @ 824
219 to surpass Lee Crooks @ 947
371 to surpass Peter Bateson @ 1099
457 to surpass Freddie Miller @ 1185 (pre war)
522 to surpass Jim Kennedy @1250
603 to surpass Colin Hutton @1331
647 to surpass Ned Rogers @ 1375 (pre war)
736 to surpass Paul Eastwood & John Maloney @1464
And a whopping 1114 to get past Joe Oliver's record 1842
Ticks already averages more points per match than any other Hull FC player @ 7.36 points per game(If one includes S.Lloyds 18 sub appearances, otherwise Lloyd's has a greater av. @ 7.7 for his 103 starting appearances)

lets be conservative and say he will average 7 points per game for us. if he plays 25 games a year (allowing for injuries) then thats 175 a season so 525 more points plus the rest of this season give us approx 80 more points so 605 in total rounded down a bit thats 600 more points so will put him in the colin hutton area on the all time list. barring serious injuries these figures should be the minimum he achieves, and also assuming he dosn't lost the kicking role in the future

Can see Tickle passing all them if he continues at the rate he's going and if we start thumping teams on the score sheet could be sooner then later.

Agreed

It seems we've started handing out 3 year deal again, which I am not too sure about, but it works both ways I guess.

Great news. On holiday on Zakynthos at the minute. This has made a great week perfect. Nice one Danny. Come on you 'ullaaahhhh!!!!!!!!!

Don't forget that we have been crap for 2 years and only 1/2 way through an ok season, if we continue to develop and score more tries play more games his points scoring avg will only increase so watch out Barney

Thanks for that, interesting stuff.

Eastwood's total came from 10 seasons at the club whereas Tickle's new contract will see him having played 7 seasons.

Nope, it stays at 5 places from next season.

I know what you're saying about 3 year deals and comfort zones and all that however I suppose with good fed-trained players becoming more and more valuable it becomes imperative to tie them down to longer deals.

Great news. I thought we'd lost him and it's a massive boost and keeps the momentum going.

Great news - It shuts all those know it alls up and a certain radio presenter