We will miss him mainly because of his goal kicking. Don't think anybody will feel too confident with us going into next season with Holdsworth as our goal kicker, especially in tight games.

I'd say overall the squad remains about the same, possibly a bit weaker on paper.
However it all remains an unknown quantity. If we have a major attitude change and can keep some consistency in a lineup then who knows.
Look at those 5 games we lost on the bounce last season, taking the Catalan game out the equation we lost the following 4 games by an aggregate of less than 20 points. We all know how badly we performed during that run and a simple change of mentality would likely have seen us win those fixtures which amazingly would have put us 4th above Wigan.
Whilst I agree that we don't have the quality to reliably beat the likes of Leeds, Wigan, Wire etc in the big games we're not quite as bad as people are making out.

have to love the concern for our well-being from our vastly inferior neighbours, nothing to talk about at their club obviously.

Is Biggs signed for the start of the season, or from May ?

crooks is the best outside back the club has produced in 30 years or more and he'll only get better. lineham, likewise will improve. Can't see any way either of these 2 will go backwards or stagnate. shaul has had a promising start but has a lot of flaws in his game to iron out.

and our next signing is !!!!

there hasn't been any clarification that I've seen.

I've been told that he arrives in May which I cannot believe for a second.

Then again, we are talking about Hull FC so it is quite possible.......................

I wonder how biggs' contract stacks up to what Briscoe has signed for at leeds

3yrs v 5yrs, and principle involved I imagine

All the press reports suggest the end of the Premiership season (10th May).

He is signed from the end of the rugby union season,unless hull can negotiate an early release,which I would imagine is quite feasible if he isn't getting played !

Few quid will see him here in a months time I bet

He and Lineham only have to produce what they did this season as their form was superb, only lack of experience stopped making the national squad. That's why I mentioned they may go backwards a touch as they was that good last season. Your right about Shaul, same as us with Eden.

Massively underwhelmed, he'll be just shy of 30 come May,(he's has severe ligament damage in the past too) if we are paying money for a winger of his level we're fooking stupid...would have wanted him for a year plus option on yr 2/3

His actual try scoring record isn't great, 25 tries in 80odd appearances, that's almost half what Banahan has scored on the other side, works out 8 tries a season

I really, really hope we didn't tell Briscoe that we couldn't take him back after his NRL offer fell through due to the "spent the money elsewhere" because that would just make us a laughing stock...

Think the fact they are both injured actually stopped them more than experience to be honest.

He's played 4 games this season so far, and if we are going to pay for his early release then why the hell didn't we have the money for Briscoe..

Any fees we pay for him to be released wont count on any cap..

And personally think if we don't pay for an early release so he can get a preseason with us will be a massive mistake

We did have the money for Briscoe - he did not want it . By the way why are you discussing with Trolls from across the City its not their problem.

You don't really believe that, do you?

As with Manu, he wanted to leave.

I've no idea, niether does anybody I guess but it would be the kind of stupid dumb-ass thing our club would do, all I know is that Biggs for Briscoe is a step down in quality.
Signing him means Crookes is pretty much gone and we still have no place for either McDonnell or Shaul

Be a good start to everyone reports for pre-season training on the first day no matter what

You moaning feckers



The quality of SL all round will be worse next year, end of. Are Wigan trading up to replace Tomkins, Richards etc? This is a decent signing in the context of an impoverished transfer market and the fact 3 of our back 5 are young and homegrown.

The negativity around every single aspect of what the club does on here is hilarious. Half comes from Rovers trolls and Rovers trolls masquerading as FC fans, much of the rest from people withholding financial support from the club but still bitching about signings. In what sense is this "supporting" the club?

You do realise clubs get injuries? I'm sure all these players will get enough game time to rove their worth.

Not sure what you wanted Hull to do? The only decent winger available was Broughton and he signed fo Hudds, who else could we have signed.