Not the best at passing though....

Your not going to get anyone who is good at everything as a stop gap measure, but he ticks a lot of the boxes. Lets face it, how many players are good at everything, Dobbo's not the best tackler, Murrell has no pace........

I think back to when Steve Hartley made the switch to stand off, he ended up a GB international.

Its a fair point but in playing Charlie there I would imagine Galea would have to play a more central role and he looked pretty good back out on the left against Saints.

I'd try that as well.

wonder what Paul Mansson's doing these days?

It's what i'd do, along with Murrell at 13 and Galea at 12

Works for me

Whatever we go with it's imperative that Galea remains defending down the left hand channel, last Sunday was the first time this season that we've looked even remotely organised down that side.

I do quite like the idea of Cockayne at 6, as long as it's purely in a running role leaving all the kicking, organising and passing to Murrell, Dobson ,Fisher and Galea.

Thing is, as proved by Webster's move to 6, you get found out in the halves if you're not both a good passer and kicker. We're already too reliant on Dobson without partnering him with someone who can't share the creative workload, whether they're a good runner or not.

You'd be surprised at Cockaynes kicking and organisational skills. His natural position is at 6 or 7.

Cockayne played SO for Donny. Needs to sort out his passing though but I'd give him a go there, why not.

do you mean our new prop Cockayne??????

what is that all about?

We were in for Greg McNally before he signed for Hudds.
Id try for him again now.

Is this like that time Rovers were in for Yeaman and you created a bit of a love-in for him on here , then when he re-signed for Hull you said he was a bit rubbish. I guess we can assume Rovers are in for McNally now, then.

I think you will find if your look through your database that i praised Yeaman in 2006 when at the time his form was fantastic.
He has done nothing to merit being spoken of as highly since as his form has been below average IMO for the last 3 years.
I also said that when Rovers signed Jake Webster then they had no need to be interested in Yeaman anymore.
I dont have an inkling if Rovers are interesting in McNally now but they were previously and he is a Stand Off.
And i think is is a talent worth taking a punt on if Hudds add to their squad as is being suggested on the Wakey forum then he moves futher down the pecking order at the Galpharm.

Sadly I don't have the dates of these quotes, which is remiss of me, but they quotes were all taken from the same period, and you talk about Willie Manu, who didn't sign for FC until, er, 2007.













Then Yeaman re-signs for Hull on a 3 year deal, having been rumoured to have been signing for Rovers. You do remember the badge-pointing incident on tv vs Wakefield in 2007 to rebut those rumours?






Good luck with McNally BTW.

Can Rovers accomodate another player under the salary cap?
I thought Cooke has been binned to help pay Clinton`s wage?
McNally would be a good signing though.

Read again i just told you when.

2006
And without Cooke, Yeaman's game suffered badly which is undisputable.
He has a long way to go before he hits his 2006 heights and would i want Rovers to sign him now.
No.
So whether he wants to sign or not i dont think he would currently add to the Rovers squad and he needs to fight off Hall,Turner and Briscoe to keep himself in Hull's 17 each week which should be your main concern not what is happening at Rovers.

But you were talking about wanting Yeaman, Manu and Hall. Manu didn't play for Hull until 2007.

I wanted Manu when he was at Cas, so what....

=#FF0000Sorry, I know that may have been meant in a light-hearted bantering kind of way, but it could be interpreted as nasty.

Don't let her get under your skin. MR

TBF, this isn't the first time we've had this discussion. You should see what he said about Hull playing Leeds in 2005 CC.



So, your new stand-off. Wouldn't bringing someone in be a "kick in the teeth" to young Chas? Have you actually offloaded Cooke yet anyway?

The origins of that theory lay on the occidental side of the muddy waters of the River Hull.

Shows how thick you are then, doesn't it. The RFL police a rolling salary cap and if we had needed to offload Cooke to help, pay for him the RFL would not have sanctioned it UNTIL we had offloaded him.

This thread is showing the first signs of going down that well worn path to lockage, which would be a shame as it is an interesting and relevant topic. Sorry to be patronizing, but if everybody could just count to 10 before posting that'd be good.
Mrs B, perhaps you could count to a larger number - 24,571, for example.



I think JAYHKR's posting record could be interpreted as a pretty damning indictment of us all. Or he might just have better things to do with his time, of course.