Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Tue Feb 11, 2025 10:26 pm  

It's ok having cap space but no use if there are no players who are right for us to sign. No one else seems to be releasing players like we are. Could be a long season i fear

[Mild Rover]

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Tue Feb 11, 2025 11:00 pm  

BP1 wrote:

As you say Chris, it has been a long time since we had a coach prepared to make these unsentimental clinical decisions.

It feels like other recent Hull FC coaches have been willing to make unsentimental decisions to release players. These may not all be perfect examples and I may be misremembering the circumstances for some of them, but Marc Sneyd, Jake Connor, Josh Reynolds, Luke Gale and Kane Evans come to mind.

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Wed Feb 12, 2025 1:46 am  

UllFC wrote:

Cartwright suggesting in Hull Live that he only was involved in signing Cust, Rapana and Sezer which isn't a surprise. If some of the others don't perform he may be saying to Andrew 'speak to your son in law' then...

Most of them were panick signings by Richie Rich
Abdull injury risk paid off
Holmes Injury risk probably get paid off not value for money if he only plays a few games
Chamberlain not S/L standard and injury prone
But you are doing a good job Myler

[Chris71]

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Wed Feb 12, 2025 7:50 am  

Mild Rover wrote:

BP1 wrote:

As you say Chris, it has been a long time since we had a coach prepared to make these unsentimental clinical decisions.

It feels like other recent Hull FC coaches have been willing to make unsentimental decisions to release players. These may not all be perfect examples and I may be misremembering the circumstances for some of them, but Marc Sneyd, Jake Connor, Josh Reynolds, Luke Gale and Kane Evans come to mind.

All those you mention I would say are not examples at all or anywhere near similar in anyway to the recent releases..

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Wed Feb 12, 2025 8:09 am  

bonaire wrote:

Most of them were panick signings by Richie Rich
Abdull injury risk paid off
Holmes Injury risk probably get paid off not value for money if he only plays a few games
Chamberlain not S/L standard and injury prone
But you are doing a good job Myler

Are you actually an FC fan, swear I’ve never once seen you post anything positive?

Holmes has a niggle so you’re suggesting he’ll get paid off. He was signed for experience and to bring young players on. Hes not a bad back up.

Chamberlain was hardly ever injured at Leigh and then has had 2 back to back injuries at Hull. The ankle might not even be too bad for all we know. Not a first choice SL player but can cover a lot of positions as a back up. Also managed to start at centre in a CC winning side.

Abdull was a risk that went wrong but Myler managed to have clauses which mitigated the costs of paying him off.

Add that we see the club doing more community work and seems a lot more in tune to the fans. Some positives there. I don’t think we can comment whether he’s doing good job or not for another 12-18 months

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Wed Feb 12, 2025 8:10 am  

bonaire wrote:

Most of them were panick signings by Richie Rich
Abdull injury risk paid off
Holmes Injury risk probably get paid off not value for money if he only plays a few games
Chamberlain not S/L standard and injury prone
But you are doing a good job Myler

You always repeat the same things but never seem to offer suggestions as to who we should have signed instead? Maybe we shouldn't have signed the above players then all we'd here is Myler can't sign anyone blah blah, genuinely who would you have signed if you were in mylers shoes? He came in late to a club that was at rock bottom, absolutely skint and where most players had already sorted their next move before he got his feet under the desk. I get that some of the players signed aren't world beaters but they're here short term to get the club moving in the right direction.

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Wed Feb 12, 2025 8:16 am  

Yippee try yay wrote:

You always repeat the same things but never seem to offer suggestions as to who we should have signed instead? Maybe we shouldn't have signed the above players then all we'd here is Myler can't sign anyone blah blah, genuinely who would you have signed if you were in mylers shoes? He came in late to a club that was at rock bottom, absolutely skint and where most players had already sorted their next move before he got his feet under the desk. I get that some of the players signed aren't world beaters but they're here short term to get the club moving in the right direction.

Should've left the recruitment until late summer like when we signed the 3 overseas lads. Would've been loads of options I'm sure

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Wed Feb 12, 2025 8:24 am  

bonaire wrote:

Most of them were panick signings by Richie Rich
Abdull injury risk paid off
Holmes Injury risk probably get paid off not value for money if he only plays a few games
Chamberlain not S/L standard and injury prone
But you are doing a good job Myler

Seems for you Myler can’t do anything right. He’s starting from scratch, going through all aspects of the club, dealing in a market where there are few players available, harnessing the young talent, assessing the character of the players, the injury prone players. Given what he came into you might consider cutting him some slack
I’m sure we’ll have adversity in the season and you’ll say ‘I told you so’ but I defy anyone to have done a much better job. I’m sorry we lost Abdul and staveley but that’s pro sport. We have space for replacements should they become available

[Mild Rover]

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Wed Feb 12, 2025 8:29 am  

Chris71 wrote:

All those you mention I would say are not examples at all or anywhere near similar in anyway to the recent releases..

In what way(s) do you see them as dissimilar?

Obviously, each set of circumstances is different, but in principle I don’t think other recent Hull FC coaches have been sentimental or reluctant to cut players.

Re: DoR - New Coach - Investor & Adam - New signings : Wed Feb 12, 2025 8:33 am  

mwindass wrote:

Should've left the recruitment until late summer like when we signed the 3 overseas lads. Would've been loads of options I'm sure

A lot of people say this but there is 0 evidence anyone any good came up. A lot of fans criticised the club for passing on Rimbu & Asi but so far they’ve been poor for Cas and have been called out for offering no direction to Cas’ attack. On the other hand, our player base voted for Sezer to be captain.

Don’t think we’d have found someone with the same pedigree as Rapana. Sezer & Rapana were also after we missed out on Lam & Sailor. Probs best stop gaps we were going to get.