Re: Pre Season - 2025 : Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:19 am  

Sdaws wrote:

Roman has done his ACL again he’s devastated but can’t praise the team and club enough they have all got around him and he’s more determined then ever to get back playing

Awful for the lad and can't help but feel devastated for him.

Fantastic that he's so determined to get back on the pitch and also great news about the club and players rallying around for him. wish him all the best in his recovery.

Re: Pre Season - 2025 : Thu Jan 16, 2025 8:01 pm  

Playing York tomorrow in a behind closed door match. Not sure if it's here or at York.

Re: Pre Season - 2025 : Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:44 pm  

RockNRolla wrote:

Playing York tomorrow in a behind closed door match. Not sure if it's here or at York.

York it is

Re: Pre Season - 2025 : Fri Jan 17, 2025 6:18 am  

Revealing comment from Ese'ese regarding pre-seeason

"It's pretty much been an NRL-standard pre-season, especially compared to last season," he exclusively told Hull Live. "Last season, we were in for three to four hours and we were done, but now we're in at 7 am and we're not done until around 3/4 pm."

Re: Pre Season - 2025 : Fri Jan 17, 2025 6:53 am  

ComeOnYouUll wrote:

Revealing comment from Ese'ese regarding pre-seeason

The more you read and find out about last year's pre season and training, the more amazed I am that Grix is still here

Re: Pre Season - 2025 : Fri Jan 17, 2025 7:59 am  

Grix ran almost all the season and didn’t have the notion to increase fitness mid season, which can be done !

He also was responsible for the worst rugby ever served up by FC in 150 years

Anyone else a bit tired of reading the DT articles in Mail about how pre season is different
It’s as if he has a template but a different player every 2-3 days

I’d like to hear more from Carty and Last and Thirkill

This pre season needs to be about the basics of rugby
Pass catch kick effort discipline !!!!!

Stop the 6 agains
Find touch but more than just 15m gain
Stop penalties
Stop knocking on
Don’t kick dead
Complete at 80%+ for the match and 90% in the first half as a minimum

Sort the above out and you have a top 4 side without trying any harder

Re: Pre Season - 2025 : Fri Jan 17, 2025 8:43 am  

ComeOnYouUll wrote:

Revealing comment from Ese'ese regarding pre-seeason

Jake Clifford wasn't exaggerating.

[Chris71]

Re: Pre Season - 2025 : Fri Jan 17, 2025 10:10 am  

mwindass wrote:

ComeOnYouUll wrote:

Revealing comment from Ese'ese regarding pre-seeason

The more you read and find out about last year's pre season and training, the more amazed I am that Grix is still here

To be honest its more amazing that we actually won any games with training consisting of a whole 3 or 4 hours a day. Although we already knew that training was very lax with little to no structure in place and certainly no accountability in any aspect, it's still astounding to hear our thoughts about the previous set up confirmed.

And whilst Smith and his henchman paid the price quite rightly with the sack, why on earth didn't Grix make the changes to have them in for training full time........

[Mild Rover]

Re: Pre Season - 2025 : Fri Jan 17, 2025 1:26 pm  

Chris71 wrote:

To be honest its more amazing that we actually won any games with training consisting of a whole 3 or 4 hours a day. Although we already knew that training was very lax with little to no structure in place and certainly no accountability in any aspect, it's still astounding to hear our thoughts about the previous set up confirmed.

And whilst Smith and his henchman paid the price quite rightly with the sack, why on earth didn't Grix make the changes to have them in for training full time........

In terms of talent and depth, there is no way the Hull FC squad of 2024 should have won only 3 games. If was pretty poor, but I thought it’d win something like 6-12 games, most likely somewhere in the middle of that range. There was clearly something else as well.

Tbh, for all that the squad has been completely changed, most of the inevitable improvement in 2025 will, I strongly suspect, come from better fitness and training around the ruck, rather than a massive uplift in talent.

Re: Pre Season - 2025 : Fri Jan 17, 2025 1:40 pm  

Looks like Sneyd could be signing for Leigh. Sat on the fence regards Sneyd. Certainly would improve us but rumoured 3 year deal for Leigh which I wouldn't be happy with. Wouldn't be devastated if he signed for them. Hopefully we can get Cross over the line soon. Would certainly add a bit of pace to the centres. Then fingers crossed another signing to add. We could finish up with a backline
Moy
Barron
Rapana
Cross
Martin
Now that's a pacey young backline