jawuk wrote:
Having read your various forum posts for the last few months, as an outsider looking in you seem too reliant on the dual reg players you may or may not get on a week to week basis. You seem obsessed by what might be on offer via dual registration pickings every week instead of what you already have at home. May be it's time to break free from the Hull RLFC shackles. You may be suprised by what you can achieve by the local / home grown talent that is available.
The reason why we probably focus on the DR situation so much is that we know that we need the better quality players from Hull to help us get out of this league. When we’ve had the likes of Jack Logan, Hakim Miloudi, and Jez Litten in the team, we’ve look like a team capable of promotion.
At the moment, we’re very vulnerable against the better teams in this league. Unless we do something to reduce that vulnerability, our aspirations of promotion will be a hope, not an expectation.
I believe we are trying to recruit local talent but bringing in players in this manner is more of a longer-term project, rather than a fix for now. The importance of getting out of this league cannot be stressed enough as the prospect of Ottawa and New York being around next season is likely to make life a whole lot tougher.
I hope we will bring in five quality players from Hull every week from now to the end of the season as this is the way to help improve our chances. Without them I fear we will continue to remain vulnerable to our promotion rivals.
If we don't get promoted this year, the future of the DR arrangement will then need to be seriously reviewed because it will have been a contributory part in our failure.
