Tansey was our FB [iand[/i halfback cover. Not many of them about eh? Probably right then that 2 players were brought in to replace him.
As regards to what was said at forums, I didn't think you believed anything said at these things? He also said that if something didn't come off he was more than happy to use what we had. I'm sure Obst on a 2 year deal was nowhere near what Agar had in mind before Tanseys feck up.

Can you provide me with a list of players that can give us what Obst can but better quality and be prepared to take on the same role?

Of course we were looking - Sammut and Chase are the proof of that. But we were happy to go into the season with Tansey as back up instead of, for example, rushing to sign Briggs who is ripping it up in Bradford's 20s every week - not. Obst was a really good piece of opportunist business by Hull. Phelps directly replaced Tansey as you say and in times of emergency could even play half back - just ike Tansey in fact.

No, we were looking for half back cover before tansey's final misdemeanour. The fact tansey may have been used as a last resort option doesn't take away from the fact that the club wanted to sign a back up half back even before berrigan left.

Just tried ringing a few to ask if they would be prepared to do it but they're all at training. Give agar a shout later on and maybe he can help you

How many times did tansey play in the halfs during his time at the club?

A few times. You'd have to ask Agar but wait til they've finished training.

You can just admit that you can't, you know.

You asked me a nonsense question so I gave a nonsense answer. How do I know which players would have been prepared to come to Hull on teh same terms as obst?

Come on, he was our back up half back. We barely had a half back on the pitch throughout 2010 so presumably tansey, being our back up half, must have played there plenty last year

He wasn't our back up half last year.

Berrigan was.

Played there a handful of times didn't he? Mind you, he probably would have played there more if we'd had a back up full back.

Was he? Thought he was our 1st choice hooker until he got injured then flitted around a bit before finishing at centre. washbrook played there more times than berrigan

Whiting

Played on the wing mostly didn't he? Because we didn't have a back up winger.

Which Whiting would of been if we'd had a back up Winger.

Horne played 7 quite a bit too, while Turner or Washbrook played 6.

Lynne

The crux of your argument is that we wouldn't have signed obst if tansey hadn't gone which is bollox. The club may well have gone with tansey as back up half due to necessity but they would still have signed obst if tansey was with us at the time. It is phelps who was the replacement for tansey

Was injured a bit last year, and wasn't really ready. Still isn't according to some.

Tried him but didn't impress. Maybe he should have had more chances, maybe not. He also had some time out injured IIRC.

If the point is to prove that we don't have great strength in depth I'd stop now as I don't think you'll get many arguing otherwise. Last season was a prime example as half the side got reshuffled to cope with injuries rather than just bringing in someone to cover the injury-hit position.

The point is to prove that obst wasn't signed as a replacement for tansey, which I have

I don't think its bollox at all, I think we would have held out for better. I personally think that if we hadn't had to sack Tansey, now Hanbury is over here we would of signed Sammut round about now. We just didn't want to/couldn't have waited.

Fair enough, I just doubt it. It's another Jeffries situation for me, will produce the same sort of generally decent performances with the occasional very good piece of play, but which aren't enough for a top side on a consistent basis.

As I said, bollox