Cas have signed Grant Millington.

Mary's son?

Jesus there are some depressing people on here. I think we should pull out of Super League.

. Lets see what happens next season and then we can all judge.

Showing you're age their fella

Piggy's ?


Oink-Oink!

tweet from Richard Mathers a few minutes ago.........

"Chuffed Martin Aspinwall has sorted himself out at hull, one of our best players last year massively underrated..."

Trying to get a few to google her at work!

So what's your point?

I satnd by that he should have been sacked and jailed. However I would not have then denied him a second chance to come back inot RL with another club. He would have served his time. Aspinwall has done wrong and has paid the price. Does he deserve to be continually punished, no.

Most teams have a troubled player or two.

Leeds - Bailey
Warrington - Monaghan
Wigan -Hock
Saints - Pryce (now Cats)
Rovers - take your pick
etc etc

Andy Hay will know how big a risk he is having worked with him last season and i;m sure Gentle has talked to him about this.

I think the aspinwall and martin signings are a symptom of the mess rule, hetherington and agar left us in. Years of under investing in our youth development have left us with a massive hole which should be filled by 4 or 5 club trained players in the 1st team.

As has been said, there is no quick fix and we just have to trust that pearson is here to make money and the only way he can do that is by making us successful. Having watched Hull for around 35 years, I can wait another 2 or 3 to see us really challenging as long as I can see that we really are making progress towards that.

I don't think we know even half of the problems which were left when the old administration walked out of the door

This sums things up perfectly

Very good post.

Last season we weren't too far off 5th, with a better coach and better team, we have a chance to challenge the top 4 next year, but a couple of years of challenging Wigan and Warrington.

Interesting - lets try and compare like for like.

Tony Martin v Martin Gleeson - Gleeson everytime but he was never going to play for us again and hardly say anything of him last year

Jamie Ellis - Danny Washbrook - Ellis for me, offers way more potential whilst not neccesarily a starter

Andy Lynch v Lee Radford - Lynch, no contest

Eamon O'Caroll v Ewan Dowes - Probably similar players, O'Caroll has yout on his side despite injuries

Wade Mckinnon v Cameron Phelps - Mckinnon better than phelps but age certainly not on his side

Aaron Heremia v Sam Obst - NRL Grand final Hooker although Obst had lots going for him

Brett Seymour v Sean Long - as good as longy was, he never plays, so Seymour has to be the better option

Martin Aspinwall v angry 'ead Lauaki - Anybody would be an improvement on him

So that leaves us with Burnett who didn't play for us last season and Fitz, who would prove impossible to replace but I think we did that bit of business last year when buying Westerman. Think he'll look to fill his boots

So my two-penneth. A definite improvement on last year, without being awe inspiring.