Home grown/British players v overseas players : Sun Apr 17, 2022 1:52 pm  

How come British players get defended a lot more than overseas players?

Scott Taylor for example has been injured for 3 years if an Australian had that sort of record they'd be slaughtered

Reynolds get slaughtered yet he offers far more than Danny Houghton

Jacob Miller was a young half back and was ditched in no time

Brett Seymour was given that much stick he suffered mental health

Yet we happily let players like Houghton and bowden have a job for life

Re: Home grown/British players v overseas players : Sun Apr 17, 2022 2:03 pm  

Cause let's be honest that is probably our biggest problem

The lack of quality youngsters coming through

Wasn't that long ago when we saw players like Richard Horne, yeaman, Cooke, King what's happened?

Lane is ok but he's certainly not Gunna be international class

Who's the best youngster we have seen come through last 10 years? Shaul

Fash, bowden etc are bang average at best

Re: Home grown/British players v overseas players : Mon Apr 18, 2022 11:37 am  

Thetalentboy wrote:

How come British players get defended a lot more than overseas players?

Scott Taylor for example has been injured for 3 years if an Australian had that sort of record they'd be slaughtered

Reynolds get slaughtered yet he offers far more than Danny Houghton

Jacob Miller was a young half back and was ditched in no time

Brett Seymour was given that much stick he suffered mental health

Yet we happily let players like Houghton and bowden have a job for life

I think Brett Seymour’s problems started well before he came to hull, can’t blame the fans for his very serious mental health issues, you don’t think Houghton deserves some loyalty from the club, he’s shown so much loyalty to? Fair enough start limiting is game time etc, but the stick he gets from some fans is unbelievable, and out of order imo

Re: Home grown/British players v overseas players : Mon Apr 18, 2022 2:49 pm  

MorningGlory23 wrote:

I think Brett Seymour’s problems started well before he came to hull, can’t blame the fans for his very serious mental health issues, you don’t think Houghton deserves some loyalty from the club, he’s shown so much loyalty to? Fair enough start limiting is game time etc, but the stick he gets from some fans is unbelievable, and out of order imo

Houghton wouldn't get a look in at most top clubs let alone be highest earner

Wouldn't get in at saints roby/lussick better
Wigan - Powell better
Catalan - mcirlorum better
Cas - mcshane better
Wire - Clark better
Leeds - leeming/dwyer better

Think Houghton has needed us more than we need Houghton

And you can't even pretend Houghton is better than any of them cause he isn't

Why do you think he's never got close to gb/England shirt cause he's not good enough that's why

Re: Home grown/British players v overseas players : Mon Apr 18, 2022 3:04 pm  

Thetalentboy wrote:

Houghton wouldn't get a look in at most top clubs let alone be highest earner

Wouldn't get in at saints roby/lussick better
Wigan - Powell better
Catalan - mcirlorum better
Cas - mcshane better
Wire - Clark better
Leeds - leeming/dwyer better

Think Houghton has needed us more than we need Houghton

And you can't even pretend Houghton is better than any of them cause he isn't

Why do you think he's never got close to gb/England shirt cause he's not good enough that's why

Apart from roby, don’t think any of them are particularly playing outstanding this season, Houghtons not the problem for me, get over it

Re: Home grown/British players v overseas players : Mon Apr 18, 2022 3:47 pm  

MorningGlory23 wrote:

Apart from roby, don’t think any of them are particularly playing outstanding this season, Houghtons not the problem for me, get over it

Behave the likes of Clark mcshane are 10 times the player Houghton is

If Houghtons "so good" why hasn't he got close to an England/GB cap?

There's a reason why weve never won a grand final is our fans are happy to have mediocre players

Re: Home grown/British players v overseas players : Mon Apr 18, 2022 3:55 pm  

Thetalentboy wrote:

Behave the likes of Clark mcshane are 10 times the player Houghton is

If Houghtons "so good" why hasn't he got close to an England/GB cap?

There's a reason why weve never won a grand final is our fans are happy to have mediocre players

Easy, Roby! And to be fair, was a couple of seasons Houghton should of got a chance, have you just watched leeming/dwyer, no thank you, check Houghtons stats compared to the likes of Powell, I can agree Houghton maybe should be used differently these days, but he’s still a quality performer, and easily one of our most consistent player

Re: Home grown/British players v overseas players : Mon Apr 18, 2022 4:05 pm  

MorningGlory23 wrote:

Easy, Roby! And to be fair, was a couple of seasons Houghton should of got a chance, have you just watched leeming/dwyer, no thank you, check Houghtons stats compared to the likes of Powell, I can agree Houghton maybe should be used differently these days, but he’s still a quality performer, and easily one of our most consistent player

Apart from Tackling what does Houghton do?

Re: Home grown/British players v overseas players : Mon Apr 18, 2022 4:24 pm  

Thetalentboy wrote:

Apart from Tackling what does Houghton do?

Yeh terrible that ability to tackle, he misses very little tackles, despite what people may think, his distribution is very good, he’s had a couple of try and a couple of assists, he makes decent meters when he does carry the ball. Compare his stats to your list of better hookers, (basically all of them) think you’ll be surprised, or don’t and keep up your unfounded Houghton bashing