: Fri Jan 09, 2009 8:56 am  

vastman wrote:

These would be the same fans who told us that Broughy wasn't a Scrum Half and was only any use as a hooker. Clearly Brough walking away with the Albert Goldthorpe award suggest otherwise. Much as you all seem to rate Horne even fit (which wasn't the lads fault) I don't think he would have come close to Brough last year.

your right he didn't, but he didn't come close to any half back because he only played in 4/5 games.

what you've got to remember is that at hull danny brough couldn't play scrum half because he couldn't play the 80 mins due to his 40 a day habit.

: Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:29 am  

vastman wrote:

These would be the same fans who told us that Broughy wasn't a Scrum Half and was only any use as a hooker. Clearly Brough walking away with the Albert Goldthorpe award suggest otherwise. Much as you all seem to rate Horne even fit (which wasn't the lads fault) I don't think he would have come close to Brough last year.

A fit horne is one of the best runners in superleague and is one of the main reasons for hulls recent success. Finding a partner to play with him has been hulls problem. Since cooke left we've missed a distributor. Im hoping thats where thorman will come in. I rate brough highly, but he's a very different player to Horne and so a comparison isn't really valid. Id take brough to partner horne in an instant, but as has been said elsewhere, it was his off field antics that caused Hull to get rid.

: Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:46 am  

hullkrforever wrote:

hahahahahahahahahaahahahahaahahahahahahahahaha iam glad serves him right and another thibg weres hudds getting there money to pay for all these's aussie stars me thinks salary cap is at bulging point if they havent allready spent it and just payed the players wifes stupid amounts of money for so called work at the club to keep under the salary cap

It's at times like these I really do understand the education league tables.

Am I the only person in East Hull that can string a sentence together?

: Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:50 am  

Sheldon wrote:

what you've got to remember is that at hull danny brough couldn't play scrum half because he couldn't play the 80 mins due to his 40 a day habit.

Seems to have managed it since he left

: Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:53 am  

norvern_soul wrote:

Seems to have managed it since he left

he said it bud.

he might have cut down/given up?

: Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:00 am  

Sheldon wrote:

he said it bud.

he might have cut down/given up?

He might've. Probably has.
As a smoker myself, well ex-smoker upto now (going well - wink), I find that smoking is a habit that often replaces and can be replaced by another habit. In my case, it was due to a lack of consistant training that I began to smoke upwards of 20 a day, which was very shocking. When I realised what damge I was doing on holiday last year when I was munching through nearly 30 a day, I began to get back into the groove of training regularly and found it easier to cut down, and now actually quit.

I notice that since Brough moved to Cas in 2006 and his body began to adapt to consistant full time professional training, his body composition changed from what it was in 2004 at York and 2005 at Hull. Just through the looking glass, I think that Brough is clearly fitter now than he has probably ever been, so I think it is safe to say he has at least cut down.

: Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:01 am  

He's on menthals now, much healthier

: Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:26 pm  

oxford-pie-eater wrote:

Common sense would say you're spot on but there's never any consistency when it comes to these things. Anyway, Bird hasn't even been to court yet.

You'd hope the Giants would give their young English halfbacks a go but I can't see that. Be interesting to see who they bring in. I'd say some Aussie waste of space, but then they don't come much bigger than the one that's already sitting there stuck with no visa (allegedly!)

Are you the love child of Sticky Ruart and Phil Gould?! Either way, you're a world class to$$pot!

...and don't forget, it's another 5 years til you get another crack at it. I'll be suprised if you've got a team by then and we'll have to invite the French Rugby Union to play instead

: Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:23 pm  

WHAT the fook are you on? I didnt get a word of that.
Maybe its me...

: Wed Mar 04, 2009 4:03 pm  

fredie wrote:

blah blah blah blah

Why bring up a thread from over a month ago? this topic is over....