Quote ="alexwest"Correct me if Iam wrong,but if you have 13 players out it means you have only 4 first choice players playing in the squad,mcgoldrick/russell would be your fullback,briscoe,yeaman,turner would be your 1st choice backs,so that is the 4 regulars according to the 13 missing,which means horne,seymour,lynch,heremaia,watts,manu,whiting,westerman and probably pitts would not be 1st choices.!!
As I see it you have 12 of the regular 1st choice 17 playing,nothing like getting your excuses in early.!!!!'"
13 players out means 13 players unavailable for selection.
Of the threequarters we have 2 'first-choice' available, not 4, as only Briscoe and Yeaman would be in the side if we hadn't lost any players. (First choice being fullback, Briscoe, Yeaman, Martin, Sharp).
Nobody has posted saying that all 13 players would have gotten straight into the side, but they could have. Competition for places, etc, and it still takes out a good chunk of players who would have been straight into our 17 no-questions-asked. The point about it being '13' is that also takes out several players who would have been back-up to these players, too.
Martin, Sharp, Houghton, Moa, O'Meley, Tickle, would all have been straight in the side.
Then, players such as Bowden, Kent, Nicklas are Hull's usual cover for some of these players.
