Re: Squad Announced : Thu Aug 22, 2013 4:46 pm  

Those saying Whiting is a good defensive winger, sorry you're wrong, he can't jump for shat, when playing there against Saints a few years ago (the comeback game I think it was maybe not) he got demolished time and again.
Yes he can make intercepts & can read plays fantastically well at times but he is slower than Richards and just because he is tall doesn't mean he can jump (because he can't), he'd get properly owned by Richards.
I want him on the bench as a rotating mobile forward because that is his strength ATM, if need be to cover anywhere else if someone gets injured
Start with Crookes & Shaul, show the we have confidence and are looking to win this from the outset..
COYH

Re: Squad Announced : Thu Aug 22, 2013 4:48 pm  

Getting really excited now! Come on Hull

Re: Squad Announced : Thu Aug 22, 2013 4:54 pm  

If we play people in there proper positions , we"ll win . If we start moving everybody about , that's when you start asking for trouble especially when you've no need to . Shaul to full back and crookes to wing all day long for me . And if yeaman doesn't play , which I think he will anyway , whiting to centre .

Re: Squad Announced : Thu Aug 22, 2013 4:55 pm  

Ellam wrote:

Hoy that's my job. lol

Not confident now.

Re: Squad Announced : Thu Aug 22, 2013 5:02 pm  

Shaul
Crookes
Crooks
Yeaman
Briscoe
Holdsworth
Miller
O Meley
Houghton
Watts
Ellis
Tickle
Westerman

Lynch
Heremaia
Whiting
Pitts

I doubt Horne will play FB but if he does I think he will win Lance Todd
My concern is in the centres where we have Yeaman who took a bad knock last week and Crooks who is making his first game return from surgery. That is far from ideal.

Re: Squad Announced : Thu Aug 22, 2013 5:05 pm  

Staffs FC wrote:

Shaul
Crookes
Crooks
Yeaman
Briscoe
Holdsworth
O Meley
Houghton
Watts
Ellis
Tickle
Westerman

Lynch
Heremaia
Whiting
Pitts

I doubt Horne will play FB but if he does I think he will win Lance Todd
My concern is in the centres where we have Yeaman who took a bad knock last week and Crooks who is making his first game return from surgery. That is far from ideal.

We can't play without a scrum half

Re: Squad Announced : Thu Aug 22, 2013 5:07 pm  

Hullandproud wrote:

We can't play without a scrum half

Good point well made Barbera

Re: Squad Announced : Thu Aug 22, 2013 5:15 pm  

We have to play Shaul. Horne was truly outstanding upto his injury and in my book was the player of the year by a mile but this lengthy layoff will have taken its toll on him. Gutted for him but sentiment has to go by the wayside on this one. Shaul has been a revelation, sure, he has made the odd mistake but he just gets on with his job and looks and plays as a class act. No way should he be even considered for missing out. Ruthless Gentle has to be.

Re: Squad Announced : Thu Aug 22, 2013 5:23 pm  

Standee wrote:

Shaul will play fullback

I agree.

Re: Squad Announced : Thu Aug 22, 2013 8:02 pm  

Staffs FC wrote:

Shaul
Crookes
Crooks
Yeaman
Briscoe
Holdsworth
Miller
O Meley
Houghton
Watts
Ellis
Tickle
Westerman

Lynch
Heremaia
Whiting
Pitts

I doubt Horne will play FB but if he does I think he will win Lance Todd
My concern is in the centres where we have Yeaman who took a bad knock last week and Crooks who is making his first game return from surgery. That is far from ideal.

I share that concern, but am telling myself that if Wigan have a weakness, that's where theirs is too.