Re: Craig Hall : Sat Aug 21, 2010 3:30 pm  

[quote="cod'ead"]At 24 he has plenty of time to develop into an attacking centre, why would we want another Keith Senior? We already have one centre in similar mould: a fast 2nd row, who doesn't fancy playing in the pack. We have no creative, attacking British centres, they're just used as lightweight battering rams.
A "TEAM" should be coached to play to the particular strengths of individual players and to cover their weaknesses.quote]

stand aside RA your job is on the line

Re: Craig Hall : Sat Aug 21, 2010 3:31 pm  

Mild Rover wrote:

Craig Hall's dob is feb 21st 1988, according to the official Hull FC site. That makes him 22, 23 next year.

sorry i had him as 24 , apologies!!

Re: Craig Hall : Sat Aug 21, 2010 3:38 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

At 24 he has plenty of time to develop into an attacking centre, why would we want another Keith Senior? We already have one centre in similar mould: a fast 2nd row, who doesn't fancy playing in the pack. We have no creative, attacking British centres, they're just used as lightweight battering rams.

Steve Evans was hardly a great defensive centre or off-half, plenty of people called him 'windy' because of that, yet he still knew where the goal line was. After playing us to Wembley in 1985, Bunting dropped him to the bench, so that the slowest off-half in the game (Fred Ah Koi), could "handle" Brett Kenny. Unfortunately even though Fred was as hard as nails, he couldn't get within a fag paper of Kenny.

A "TEAM" should be coached to play to the particular strengths of individual players and to cover their weaknesses. The way Atkins & Hicks opened up our right-side defence last night proves to me that our sum total is too often less than the individual parts.

The game is a lot faster than it was in 1985..Therefore defence is an important attribute every player has to have...Sadly Hally could not tackle a sunday dinner...he may be a try scorer however he lets more in than what he is capable of scoring.

Re: Craig Hall : Sat Aug 21, 2010 4:01 pm  

berrigans bitch wrote:

The game is a lot faster than it was in 1985..Therefore defence is an important attribute every player has to have...Sadly Hally could not tackle a sunday dinner...he may be a try scorer however he lets more in than what he is capable of scoring.

Now even victor meldrew has to agree that bit was funny

also players are bigger, fitter by a wide mark and would add to that in my opinion he would not have shone even back then , i bet your average sailor has tackled more pros than he has

Re: Craig Hall : Sat Aug 21, 2010 5:50 pm  

I wish him all the luck in the world at HKR... maybe the fans will like him better then some on here!!!

Re: Craig Hall : Sat Aug 21, 2010 5:53 pm  

brierseylad wrote:

I wish him all the luck in the world at HKR... maybe the fans will like him better then some on here!!!

I think all who know Craig like him, he is a genuinely nice lad...however not rating a person as a player is not personal

Re: Craig Hall : Sat Aug 21, 2010 5:53 pm  

ComeOnYouUll wrote:

Evans played centre at Wembley in 1985.

Sorry, he did indeed, from memory I thought he was benched and then came on at centre.

It doesn't alter the fact that he'd been playing out of his skin at stand-off, only to be moved to centre to allow Ah Koi to laughingly attempt to mark Brett Kenny

Re: Craig Hall : Sat Aug 21, 2010 6:59 pm  

Panda92 wrote:

He has lots of potential, everyone can see that, but he seems to have stagnated a bit here. There isn't a place in our squad for him to progress to. Hopefully, joining a new club would spur him on to improve, as he has the potential to be a very good attacking player, if he can keep his confidence up.

He just needs to work on his defensive positioning when playing centre, and to choose the time to go for an intercept, as he goes for them a little too much.

Would rather he went to Cas than KR. They'd be less pressure there, and there's a chance of him getting fairly regular game now that shenton's left, plus I think he could complement Chase (both quick and attacking, something could get going).

copypaste from another thread I posted it in, but relevant here.

Re: Craig Hall : Sat Aug 21, 2010 7:38 pm  

Agree, Hall has had a frustrating couple of years, but there is no doubt he has talent, and he had a good game tonight.
What I can`t understand is why we bought Turner, to get rid of Hall. I live over in Lancs. and the Salford fans I talk to can`t understand why we bought him! Hall is a better footballer, he has more pace, he is capable of winning us a game with a try out of nothing, his field kicking is good, and he is a very good goalkicker. True his defence is poor, but so is Turner`s.
I`m not sure whether Hall should go or not, he could become a really good player, but I am sure that Turner will never become anything better than ordinary at Super League level.

Re: Craig Hall : Sun Aug 22, 2010 6:47 am  

berrigans bitch wrote:

The game is a lot faster than it was in 1985..Therefore defence is an important attribute every player has to have...Sadly Hally could not tackle a sunday dinner...he may be a try scorer however he lets more in than what he is capable of scoring.

I dont think thats very fair or accurate he doesnt let in in far more than he scores not by a long shot