My take for whats is worth is that the Hull regulars on their forum believe that Jez Litten injects some zip into them when he comes on as a sub. The game IMO is getting faster and especially at the play of the ball and there will not be many who can match Littens pace at that game. He could well be a future England 9. IMHO he could be that good, and he needs to stay at Hull and not bum about with League 1.

Squad for Newcastle game

Matty Beharrell, Connor Bower, Ryan Boyle, Matty Chrimes, Kieran Cross, Ryan Dixon, Sam Doherty, Brandon Douglas, Brad Foster, Jordie Hedges, Jordan Howden, Kyle Kesik, Danny Langtree (D/R), Richard Owen, Connor Scott, Russ Spiers, Jason Tali, Liam Welham, Connor Wynne (D/R).

Wynne is a fullback, langtree is a prop

Well after seeing the squad, what sort of deal has Carl hall really agreed with Hull... 2 players on DR. We’re getting nothing at Newcastle.... not good enough

Danny Langtree was playing second row for Oldham last season.

Langtree is a second row not big enough for a prop.decent player though at your level
Connor Wynne is a young full back with plenty of pace but a bit lightweight.
If you have plenty of possession and your forwards get on top Wynne will score as he comes into the line really well.
Horne seems to have gone light with Hull Players for some reason in what is an important game.
Think he has made a mistake not adding a front row.

I think Danny Langtree is a 2nd row forward .

Sorry you’re correct

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Hope Horne picks Dixon & Langtree in the 2nd Row.

Owen could also play at 1 , with Wynne or Chrimes on the wing .

I agree it’s a bit mistake for such an important game. Could it be because you have a reserve game and radford told Horne you can only have 2 players.

What is the latest regarding Brandan Wilkinson ?

No i dont think so.Looks to me to be the choice of Horne.
The idea of the reserves is to keep players fit and give some of the younger players a step up to first team action.
in this case a hard tight game at Newcastle would have been just as beneficial for some of the Hull lads as Wakefields reserves.
I think he has been loyal to the Doncaster squad.
Adding Langtree will help but i dont think you have the front row to get a win and bringing in Levy or even young Jack Brown would have helped a lot.
But what do we know?

I agree ... light on forward power.

Your right about us being light up front.. Connor Scott is a good player but Boyle isn’t good enough, spires gives 100% but isn’t top quality, Brandon Douglas is unknown and that’s all we have up front. We then have foster, langtree and Dixon in the back row. Last season we were bullied by the top teams and I can’t see things changing any time soon.

Langtree is a good player & Dixon deserves his chance. Not sure about Foster.

Great experience for Wynne, fantastic young talent and played in the recent England academy series v Australia

He didn’t play in any of the tests vs Australia

Not denying the talent of some of these youngsters ... but they are youngsters ... and they will get battered.
Probably.

Anyway the proof of the pudding ... etc

I agree that Richard Horne has been loyal to the Donny players. In recent weeks, the statements he has put out have suggested that he was only going to bring in one or two Hull players whereas we'd be told by the club that five players could be available and we would have the choice of some of the better players.

I like and respect loyalty so I can understand where Richard Horne appears to be coming from but personally, I'd be grabbing the best five players I could from Hull and build the rest of the team around them for this tough opening game.

Their coach must think he has got out of jail ...

Logic dictates that we always get the sweepings up from Hull, since they have enough problems of their own.
AND you can't have two bosses and serve them equally.

I am very disappointed with how it has gone so far.

He can't do stuff like this and not win. He is painting himself into a corner.

I agree with a lot of what has been said. I’m not a fan of DR at all and would rather we spent the money on better players of our own. But Mr Hall belives the deal he has arranged with Hull is our best chance of promotion. So why wouldn’t you use the arrangement to the max and have the 5 best Hull players available... Horne could find him self under big pressure in a few weeks time. A lot of his signings this season don’t fill me with much optimism. Hope to be proved wrong

I have to pinch myself that he got Franky and Beryl last season ... so he has done good things.

He has both of those were top signings but signing numerous players from amateur clubs isn’t going to get us promoted. We needed 3 or 4 signings of the like of those 2.

Well I agree ... they would be good if we had a reserve side.
But we really don't have the time to bring them on and make them quality players.
We need to be in the Championship and need players to get us there pronto.

It will be interesting to see how the bookies view this game. I suspect that Newcastle will be 6 or 8 point favourites.