now that tommy lee and mike burnett have been suspended from all club duties, it seems highly unlikely that both will not play against wiggan on friday night, so once again it leaves us short in the backline with tansey being out too, so who replaces them?

dare we bring back thorman to partner washey?
is rich horne fit to play?
surely houghton will have to share the number 9 role with hodgson

backs only cjosen as i feel we still have cover in the forwards for tickle and burnett.

1 whiting
2 calderwood
3 raynor
4 hall
5 briscoe
6 r horne(if fit)
7 washbrook

Wont see Berrigan till next season

bugger forgot bout berro



houghton and hodgson to share hooker role

Would imagine the squad to be:

Briscoe
Calderwood
Cordoba
Dowes
Hall
G. Horne
Hodgson
Houghton
King
Lauaki
Manu
Moa
Radford
Raynor
Tansey
Tickle
Washbrook
Whiting

With either Reece Lyne or Jack Briscoe drafted in as 19th man.

Looks like the only option

richard horne was mentioned to miss 4 weeks, leaving the last 2 games available taking out the challenge cup semis and finals

Forgot that Tickle and Tansey are suspended, there could be a few kids playing this week if Lee and Burnett are still suspended.

Jack Briscoe
Calderwood
Hall
Tom Briscoe
Raynor
Washbrook
Whiting
Cordoba
Houghton
Dowes
Manu
G.Horne
Radford

Moa
Lauaki
King
Hodgson

Lyne
A.N.Other

still think its too early for the likes of j briscoe and r lynne

So, 9 out through injury/suspension
Byrne
Tony
Yeaman
Tansey
Berrigan
Cusack
Tickle
Lee
Burnett

Plus, status unclear:
Thackray
King
Maloney

I really hope this is rock bottom from a selection options perspective.

I thought there was a rumour that King had been paid off

And no mention of Thackray for weeks.

There may be salary cap restrictions preventing us from using Jack Briscoe and Reece Lynn anyway.

The salary cap value of the "second tier" group - players outside of the top 25 earners who have represented the club in the SL year - cannot exceed £50,000.

We have already used 30 players this season.

Can you e-mail this to the club? Not saying they won't have considered it, but just to be on the safe side...



On that basis, assuming they're fit:

Whiting
Raynor
Briscoe
Hall
Calderwood
Washy
Horne
Dowes
Houghton
Cordoba
Manu
Lauaki
Radford

Hodgson
Moa
King/Thackray
G Horne

Salary cap stopping us using young home-grown players....oh the irony and at Wigan as well.

Now when have Hull ever failed to read the small print on the RFL Operational Rules? Aaaahh....

Thats cos hes history

Well seeing as we have only 2 matches left and no chance of play-offs....who cares?

So are King, Thackray and Maloney all out of consideration for Friday?

He's gone.

We've got up to 12 players unavailable. Last season we had the same at certain points in time and thought it was a blip, but this season's been no better for a whole range of reasons. We've already got Berro and Yeaman out for months and visas to be sorted for O'Meley and Fitzgibbon, that's before the usual pre-season training injuries we seem to pick up. What I'm saying is I hope this trend of having half the squad unavailable doesn't continue into next season.

Aye....and still Sharp got the sack...bleeding joke.

me and a few other hundred fans who are going to make the effort to go to wiggan on friday night!

Good for you oh super duper fan......just want this season to finish personally...lost all intrest yonks ago but still went as im a fan like you.

not a case of being a super duper fan fool, some of us like to go to watch rugby regardless of how we play, oh btw, i boycotted caravan park so that rules that claim out