Neil Hudgell 29th July 2009: "Knowledgeable fans are not fooled nor should they be by promises of big names around the corner.This competition should be about here and now and not next season. Anything less is selling those supporters short in my view."
David Hodgson signs for Rovers 18th July 2011. Double standards? Oh yes.

Depends if you think David Hodgson is a 'big' signing. Personally I don't

It's all relative, I suppose. Your BFF was a bit scathing about Horne a fortnight ago, so in that context Hodgson's a [ubigger[/u signing at least.

How many times did you see Horne play for F.C.?
To be fair I always thought he had a steady game for us.Just my opinion of course,others may not agree.

If you had signed him when he was released from hull i would have had a good chuckle to myself....What iv seen of G Horne this season he looks alot better then when he played for Hull...a good signing if you ask me..same with Hodgson..better then Fox.

The Horne signing cannot be judged as good or bad unless we knew both how much cap he was taking up and if there are any other ins or outs to come. ie. if Horne is cheap and brought in for cover then I don't think its a bad signing, whereas if he's been brought in to replace Newton then I'd be seriously worried, likewise if he was on a lot of money it'd be bad business.

I've heard clinton is leaving and you're bring in an NRL prop who has played SOO. Don't know who it is

I was scathing about how poor Rovers defence was during his second try.

Rovers are definitely one of the clubs to have spoken to Carl Webb.

Not sure he is quite the force of old but, again, would come under Joel Clinton's £120k salary.

Would add some much needed grunt and aggression, if nothing else.

Been constantly injured for a while and hung up his boots last week....

Unless Rovers really want to be a retirement home for crocks its a big no.....

rovers' defence made horne look like mal meninga rampaging down your left hand side

I shouldn't laugh really but it's true.

Carl Webb retired from rugby league august 9th 2011.!

GML compared him to Inglis, you to Meninga.

That Nathan Brown must be hell of a coach

I did see him a few times actualy as some of my best buddies are Hull fans(unfortunately but never mind) and if Rovers wern't playing on the same day i would quite often go to watch Hull with them just for the day out, likewise they would often come to Rovers with me if Hull wernt playing, so there you go.
Im not saying Horne was a bad player at Hull, in fact he did have some very good games as i remember, i just think he looks a better all round player now than what he did then, i guess i will be able to make a better assessment of him over the next twelve months.

Rumours in the rumours thread now please - I know I'm amongst the guilty.

How can you say he is a better player now, though?

He hasnt made the Hudds team for 40% (approx) of their games this season and I think he was dropped for a fair portion of last season too. He's seldom played when Huddersfiled have been on SKY so it's really hard to make that judgement unless you've seen him on a regular basis.

I'm sure he is better player now as he's been working under a vastly superior coach and he's amongst a stronger team, and he was a good player to start with, but to say he's better now is speculative.

Horne was always capable of good performances - he just had far too many poor ones mixed in. The biggest improvement IMO since he moved to Hudds has been in consistency. If you like, his peak performance level hasn't increased but he plays there or thereabouts the majority of the time with far fewer poor performances thrown in. Definitely a good squad signing.

I think horne is a decent player and would be OK if picked in one position and played there consistently. He was messed around far too much at Hull and it doesn't look like things have been much better at hudds. I'd much rather have him in my team than murrell

I would like Clinton to stay personally..

Horne was staying at giants until celtic pulled plug and there players came off quota ,chans going to the giants Hornes deal was pulled simple ,hes a cast off and thats from a player

Chan had already decided that he wasn't going to stay at the Crusaders long before the owners pulled the plug.