" It’s common sense. If you have two front rowers charging up the field and making the yards then its easy to play 13 off the back of that, but when you’re dropping the ball and giving away penalties, well some times you’ve got to roll your sleeves up and try and inspire the team with a tough carry or hard carries when there is no-one else to take the ball "

In other words if the team performs better we may get to see him create a bit more.

Gotta be wrong it's all Agars fault

That's a [url=http://www.hullfc.com/newsarticle.aspx?n=16653great article[/url - my respect for Fitz increases daily.

I said I felt choked up at the thought of him playing for FC before he arrived, such was his reputation as a great player but an even greater professional. He really is an inspiration.

Biggest signing for either Hull club since Sterling

Top tacklers

1 Craig Fitzgibbon Hull 198
2 Danny Houghton Hull 177
3 James Roby St Helens 166
4 Ian Henderson Catalans 157
5 Jon Wilkin St Helens 140

Meh. Less than 50 a game.

That Willie chappy has a lot to live up to if he's going to keep Rovers' end up.

great player, great leader, nuff said! true professional!

not doubting what a class player and a legend he is but it worries me that hes had to put that work in in 4 games!

Id rather not see a hull player in the top 5 tacklers hoping that would mean we had the ball in hand more then defending!

I know, what a slacker. He needs to start puling his finger out.

he's an absolute machine and completely focused ....

carnt say ive ever herd anyone critise the man tbh ,only thing ive heard peaple say is give the guy a fooking rest ,he should never have come back on this week ,the mans a great and will take sum replacing ,pity luke O:donell think hes at salford ,isnt available

He's at hudds and isn't in the same class.

luke o donnell v fitzgibbon?? Please!!!?

Didn't fitz play pretty much either 2nd row or prop for his whole NRL career?

Much as I respect Fitz for his fitness and workrate, I don't think Hull FC are getting the best out of him. For whatever reason the role he has played for all his time at the club is that of a prop grinding out the yards and blocking up the middle. One of my biggest problems with Agar is his insistance on playing a third prop at 13 but after reading that article I wonder who is now actually to blame for this.
When Westerman signed I thought, great, at last a ball handling loose forward. This should change the way the team plays, but so far there has been little change.
To improve the side, imo, Fitz should be played at prop and spelled, allowing Joe to play the full 80 at 13 and as the grounds start to firm up I think this is essential but I am concerned now that it would appear if Fitz wants to play 13, Fitz will play at 13

Indeed, and that is totally wrong if Agar is just letting Fitz do what suits himself.

BIG "if" but not the case

Good post, one which I agree with.

If the man himself is happy, then I'm happy. The only problem is that he won't be able to keep up that kind of work rate for the full season surely?

o donnell is a better player than fitz now.

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If anything, that article has added a bit of fuel to my creeping suspicion that Fitzgibbon is calling more shots than he should. His record is superb and his work rate since being here likewise, but to me that article basically reads as 'the props aren't doing their job well enough so I'm having to help do it for them, but I won't be named at prop'. Maybe if we did name him at prop alongside O'Meley, we would have 2 front rowers charging upfield to allow Westerman to shine.

I'm just not seeing how him playing as a prop at 13 can be sold to us as in the best interests of the team, regardless of how well-intentioned he may be.

It's Agar's fault for giving him a rest against Crusaders

Wouldn`t surprise me either,the guy isn`t exactly a shrinking violet.