Re: Hull FC Best Super League XIII : Sun Jul 23, 2023 1:00 pm  

CarlB wrote:

A few peripherals ones, for me -

Shaun Berrigan
Sam Moa
Fonua (first stint)
Craig Fitzgibbon

Best signing to never happen -

Michael Crocker

I think I could chop and change my personal best 13, but Best, Swain, Smith, Kearney and Cooke feature in all variations.

I was a little disappointed with berrigan expected much more given he was in the Australia squad year before we signed him

Was expecting him to be Jason Smith type quality

Re: Hull FC Best Super League XIII : Sun Jul 23, 2023 1:31 pm  

CarlB wrote:

A few peripherals ones, for me -

Shaun Berrigan
Sam Moa
Fonua (first stint)
Craig Fitzgibbon

Best signing to never happen -

Michael Crocker

I think I could chop and change my personal best 13, but Best, Swain, Smith, Kearney and Cooke feature in all variations.

Good call. Sam Moa was a very astute signing. He'd only played 1 NRL game before he came over and was very raw. I remember he made his debut away at Hudds' and he was clearly out of shape but worked hard and went on to have a very good career in SL and back in the NRL and gained international honours.

Berrigan came over as our starting hooker but because of injuries was played all over the place. For me his best position was centre but he hardly played there and we never saw the best of him.

Fonua was great first time but should never have been brought back. I noticed that he got a bit of stick last week from some fans which I thought was pretty poor. Sneyd gets a bit of abuse as well which I just don't get.

Fitzgibbon was a machine and gave us real leadership but his body gave up on him.

The most disappointing signing for me on reputation was Matt Sing. He was a regular international and origin player but never really stood out while he was here.

Re: Hull FC Best Super League XIII : Sun Jul 23, 2023 1:43 pm  

Thetalentboy wrote:

I was a little disappointed with berrigan expected much more given he was in the Australia squad year before we signed him

Was expecting him to be Jason Smith type quality

Berrigan would have been immense for us if we had sufficient quality around him, you could see at times he was 5 steps ahead of anyone in that team, he also suffered from been moved round playing, Hooker, centre, halves and even at loose. That's not what you do with your best player.

Re: Hull FC Best Super League XIII : Sun Jul 23, 2023 2:38 pm  

Has everyone forgotten about Albo?

Re: Hull FC Best Super League XIII : Sun Jul 23, 2023 8:25 pm  

bonaire wrote:

Has everyone forgotten about Albo?

No, he got my number 6 jersy.

Re: Hull FC Best Super League XIII : Sun Jul 23, 2023 10:16 pm  

bonaire wrote:

Has everyone forgotten about Albo?

Nope he was in mine

Actually think imo apart from Jason Smith and Swain the 3rd best overseas player in our super league era

On his day was unplayable

Re: Hull FC Best Super League XIII : Sun Jul 23, 2023 10:19 pm  

Quote// Fonua was great first time but should never have been brought back. I noticed that he got a bit of stick last week from some fans which I thought was pretty poor. Sneyd gets a bit of abuse as well which I just don't get.Quote//
Been around since time immemorial, Sully had bananas thrown at him by Threepennies on his first appearance back for Rovers. Think he picked one up and ate it, he was class.

Re: Hull FC Best Super League XIII : Mon Jul 24, 2023 8:54 am  

Nathan Blacklock for a wing position?