: Sat Jan 03, 2009 2:55 pm
knocker norton wrote:
Another prop would have been nice but we still have 3 props who have taken us to finals and after last year a couple of props with points to prove!
I wont knock the Horne, Thorman combination before they have even played for Hull together - but I am really looking forward to seeing a fully fit Horne back more then anything else.
Dont agree with your centre statements I think that in Yeamo, Briscoe and Hall we have some real talent that just needs releasing better.
Throw in players like Motu, Whiting, Crocker, Berro and Washy and there is some talent there. Lets not be too hasty in judging them before a ball has been kicked.
Apart from a couple of impact spells from Thakray, we have little or no go-forward in our front row whatsoever and most SL packs will dominate us as they did last season.
We have released two scrum halves and replaced them with a stand off(not a bad one) and we could quite possibly see, for the third consecutive season, Tommy Lee in our halfbalks which is a complete joke.
In Briscoe and Hall we have two young and inexperienced centres who would make good back-up centres/wingers to a class centre which we desperately need.
In Byrne, Cusack, Radford, Lee and, to a lesser extent, some others, we have a hell of a lot of salary cap wasted on players who would just not get a look in at any other top 8 SL squads.
I don't think that I'm being even remotely hasty, just realistic. We have an overall mid-table squad and that will almost certainly be reflected in the SL table for 2009.