IMO all you fans deserve a lot better than the inadequacy served up by your board at the moment.

Thanks for your honesty, your lot are undoubtedly Hull's top dogs now it just frustrates me that we don't even try to compete, it's obvious to anyone that Agar is as bright as a 40w bulb. You deserve to laugh at us all you can, but gladly some of you can empathise with what it must feel like to have such an utter buffoon running your club. It's particularly sad that our esteemed board and closer to home some of our 'knowledgeable' moderators and posters on here try to pretend otherwise in selfish efforts to save face due to what they have said over the course of the season.

Shame on them.

The 11 year rule on salary cap is not "50%". It is a reduction of £50,000 per club regardless of the number of players who qualify.

From next season Yeaman comes under this rule.

Release him now and we still get to pay his wages which will also still count on the cap. Not clever business really, is it?

I'd be quite surprised if we offered him a new deal at the end of next season unless he has an absolute stormer next year.

The biggest piece of dead wood at the club is teh coach. Bin that first

They can have more than one player, but the 50% reduction is capped at 50K total IIRC.

for me this situation is summed up by the following question, how many players in our squad would get into other teams like saints, wigan, wire, leeds, kr or hudds i.e the teams we want to be competing with? O'meley, Houghton, Briscoe, and possibly Manu and Fitz, to sumise, we are a very average team ...at best and in honesty i believe we've over achieved this season by finishing 6th. So long as we keep signing players like radford for 2 years and Yeaman for 3 we'll never move on. I fear the same will happen with Horne next year when his contract his up, great guy and a loyal servant but if we want to move on the club have to show a ruthless streak.

Didn`t know you felt that way.

was saying at the open day going bk home to be a Plumber

Think he will be quite successful given the amount of 5hit he has worked with this year

fc legend

I would take Manu , Briscoe (must travel down under ) , Houghton . That's it nobody else . For me a lot boils down to recruitment and HFC should be looking at imports who are of similar standard to previous excellent ones e.g Kearney and Swain .
Assuming Long has one more year left in him then either you recruit a young lad from the academy or start looking for an experienced number 7 quick.

I heard recently that Longy has an option for a third season, linked to appearances.

He expects it to be activated.

Anybody know if this fact or fiction ?

nope

this season i would like cusack,calderwood,dowes,radders and burnett all to go with a young halfback, a top quality centre and prop to come in. then for 2012 is when the major transfer will happen with fitzy,long and berro most likely all to leave theres some money.

With the money we've got spare I'm guessing we could bring in 2 big players.

I bet we don't.

I would like us to go for Jason Taylor!!

It won't be through lack of effort.

Exactly!

I wonder how many Wigan players were classed as 'dead wood' before Maguire took over?
I wonder how many Warrington players were classed as 'dead wood' before Smith took over?

Excellent point

Horne, Washbrook, Yeaman, Radford, Dowes. 80% of which is the mainstay of our fantastic crop of local talent !!!

I think people need to get over the result from Saturday and then have a think about who is available to replace the "dead wood"?

Most of the quality players are already signed up and apart from that i think most of the so called deadwood are not actually deadwood. We have shown this year that bringing in 3 or 4 quality players made no difference to the way we play the game.

If it's ball players it does.

You're allowed £50,000.