Re: Shopping List 2023 : Tue Jul 19, 2022 12:10 am  

Marcus's Bicycle wrote:

At an elite level Ferguson did that at Man U. Just read his autobiography. He was ruthless. Even a legend who was showing the first sign of decline or causing unrest within the camp was gone without any sentiment. (Not saying Houghton is causing problems off the pitch).

People seem to forget he was one match from the sack and got lucky, then went on to be a very successful manager at Man U

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Tue Jul 19, 2022 12:37 am  

dandaman wrote:

Really hope our spine next year is
1.hoy
6.trueman
7.connor
9.lovodua

Only slight problem I see with this is our kicking game

Connor is decent enough but as a 1st choice kicker ? I don't see him quite at Sneyd, jason smith level

But our attack would improve massively more pace and lovodua would give miles more attacking threat than Houghton ever has

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Tue Jul 19, 2022 5:26 am  

Thetalentboy wrote:

Only slight problem I see with this is our kicking game

Connor is decent enough but as a 1st choice kicker ? I don't see him quite at Sneyd, jason smith level

But our attack would improve massively more pace and lovodua would give miles more attacking threat than Houghton ever has

I honestly think Connors kicking game is underrated, seems to hit space and mix it up better than what we've had recently. Never quite got why Reynolds was kicking recently instead of Connor

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Tue Jul 19, 2022 5:55 am  

Rocknrolla69er wrote:

I honestly think Connors kicking game is underrated, seems to hit space and mix it up better than what we've had recently. Never quite got why Reynolds was kicking recently instead of Connor

Trueman has a decent short kicking gsme too. Something even Sneyd struggled with towards the end of his Hull career

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Tue Jul 19, 2022 6:50 am  

Wonder if we will still sign Walker now Hoy has been announced?

1Walker
2 Mcintosh
3 Carlos
4 Connor
5 Simm
6 Trueman
7 Hoy

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Tue Jul 19, 2022 7:13 am  

RockNRolla wrote:

Wonder if we will still sign Walker now Hoy has been announced?

1Walker
2 Mcintosh
3 Carlos
4 Connor
5 Simm
6 Trueman
7 Hoy

Connor has to play in role he can roam, would be wasted playing centre in SL. If Walker signs he would be back up, which would still mean he would play 20 plus games if he was fit with the amount of injuries teams get.

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Tue Jul 19, 2022 7:42 am  

If/when Connor is moved into the halves I just hope we don't play with a split system. Let him have the free reign of the pitch like he does now.

If we start the season with Hoy at 1 and Connor at 6 I don't see why they can't alternate in attacking positions too

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Tue Jul 19, 2022 7:48 am  

Irregular Hoops wrote:

Was told by somebody that knows Andy Last that it was him who told Radford not to re-sign Fonua, as we didn’t need him, but Radford was worried about him playing for someone else.

It was Cas which is why they ended up with Feki.

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Tue Jul 19, 2022 8:04 am  

RockNRolla wrote:

Wonder if we will still sign Walker now Hoy has been announced?

1Walker
2 Mcintosh
3 Carlos
4 Connor
5 Simm
6 Trueman
7 Hoy

Also has to be Swift over Simm, so far Simm had been horrendous in defence, not sure he is any better than the young backs at our club, still time though, but certainly not better than Swift.

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Tue Jul 19, 2022 8:11 am  

So far signed up with have

Fullback
Connor/Hoy
Litten

Wingers
Swift
Mcintosh
Barron
Martin

Centres
Carlos
Wynne
Walker

Halfbacks
Trueman
Connor/Hoy
McNamara
Hookem

Props/LF
Satae
Sao
Taylor
Evans
Fash
Brown
Laidlaw
Staverly

Backrow
Griffin
Savelio
Lane
Severs
Jebson

Hooker
Lovodua
Balmforth


Probably add Scott, Houghton, Simm and Sutcliffe to that squad, another quota player too. Add a couple of young kids I expect to train with the first team, probably be a couple of others too.

Might have missed someone too.