According to the Express today we have turned down a loan request for Mike from Castleford to wanted to ease their injury woes. (Apparently they now want G Horne from Hudds). Is this the right move to keep our players away from helping out our rivals, or would a few super league games under his belt have been beneficial for both the player and us as a club ?

Thoughts ?

Was on viking radio too this morning.

Personally, wouldn't object to him getting some game time elsewhere seeing as we are having a fairly injury free run at the moment.

The problem with a loan deal is that you cant call them back for the first month.

So if we did get a few injuries, we might need him to play.

However I dont think him playing in the under 20's would do him any good, he is too big and strong for that level (same with Moa and Washbrook) a dual registration with a NL1 club, could be the way forward for Hull, as they could call them back when needed. Again it could be argued that Burnett etc are too good for the national leagues and need to be playing SL.

I dont know what the answer is, peronally I would have let him go to Cas for a month, think we have enough cover in the backrow to take the risk.

Maybe the player was asked and didn't want to go?

Entirely possible.

To be honest, I can't think of any other reason not to let him go. It'd certainly benefit him to get some regular game time. It's not like we're short of second row cover.

Fair enough if he has turned them down to fight for his place here.

I think Burnett will play plenty of games this season for Hull.

If one of our back rowers gets injured he'll be in the 17. Loan deals are for fringe players not your 1st chocie back up

Would get easter out the way before loaning any players out.

thats my thoughts mate, we have a tough run coming up and lose one or 2 and he'd be in there rather than us having to play others and shuffle

Wll need the full squad for the easter period 3 games in 9 days against rovers,wire and leeds with leeds again the week after says keep the squad here IMO

Burnett will be playing a huge role this season imo. A loan deal would be an option though and it's nice to see our players been approached by SL clubs rather than NL1 clubs. Shows our greater depth.

Let him go but only for the flat month with no extension.
It will help out Cas and improve our relations with the club but more importantly give Burnett some more experience and gametime.
If Tickle does decide to move nearer home at the end of the season Burnett would be my choice as his replacement.

I understand he was willing to go but Hull said no.

I think he will get plenty of game time here as the season progresses.

I reckon we have enough options at SR for a loan spell to have worked, but if the club don't think it's a good idea their reasoning is probably sound.

I would guess that if we didnt have the minimum loan period we would have allowed him to go on loan and give us flexibility to recall him if we pick a knock or two up.

I am surprised Wakefield have not been sounding him out for a loan move.He could fill a car now with other Hull based players currently making the trip West

Dual contract to an NL would allow that

Has that actually happened/ever been confirmed and if so do we know who we have given dual deals to?

It's been talked about at some length on here but i can't recall the club or SL ever confirming it?

Shaun Aiscough proved it

How? He was at Widnes for over 28 days wasn't he?

Thats the bit that confuses me. Do we need to announce in advance which players have a dual contract and with who? I noticed a lot of the Leigh players were dual contracted players but is this set in stone before the season starts or what?!?!

I was of the understanding that if the dual contract scenario is true you have to pre-register your players and cant mix and match during the season otherwise it makes it pointless.

As i say, the biggest confusion for me is that it's never actually been confirmed.

Chris Dean Widnes / Saints

i think you can only do it 3 times and the players have to be under a certain age

Also they can only play for 1 of the clubs on any given weekend