Re: Cats Away : Sun Jun 12, 2022 12:43 pm  

UllFC wrote:

I think we will see some signing news soon, there are Magic shirts and tickets to shift and we need cheering up!

French would be an incredible signing, his pace is exactly what we need and it'd be a big sign that finances arent as bad as has been claimed

With the amount of players we are losing, I don't think money is an issue, I'd expect we have offered more than Wigan, but he may be better staying there on less money or get a move to the NRL.

I'm amazed he hasn't got a deal there with the way he has been playing.

Re: Cats Away : Sun Jun 12, 2022 1:06 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

With the amount of players we are losing, I don't think money is an issue, I'd expect we have offered more than Wigan, but he may be better staying there on less money or get a move to the NRL.

I'm amazed he hasn't got a deal there with the way he has been playing.

Depends if we are planning to spend full cap or not though. Even signing an average player on say £100k could mean the difference between a profit or a loss, and even if we slipped down the league a few places I don't think it'd impact pass sales and merchandise sales that much, we are pretty much down to the hardcore support now.

Of course id want the club to spend full cap and aim to get in the top4, but from a business point of view making cuts might be better for the club for now.

Re: Cats Away : Sun Jun 12, 2022 1:18 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

Currently there isn't a first choice halfback worst than our 6 and 7, both have been diasters and two of our highest paid players too.

if Hodgson doesn't fancy Hookem, I'd be tempted to try and sign Riley Dean until the end of the season.

Hookem player at hooker again this afternoon for Whitehaven so I don't expect to see him feature in the halves this season. Judging BH comments from last night think it's Reynolds and gale for the foreseeable future

Re: Cats Away : Sun Jun 12, 2022 1:26 pm  

Woods1969 wrote:

Hookem player at hooker again this afternoon for Whitehaven so I don't expect to see him feature in the halves this season. Judging BH comments from last night think it's Reynolds and gale for the foreseeable future

I think that's more to do with Whitehaven having decent halfbavks and no hookers (they also have Robb from Cas on loan), but I agree, don't see Hookem getting a chance.

Re: Cats Away : Sun Jun 12, 2022 2:13 pm  

I think we'll spend the full cap next season, we just need to use it better

Re: Cats Away : Sun Jun 12, 2022 2:53 pm  

[quote="mwindass"]He gets one last recruitment cycle for me. I'm in the French is happening camp, I've been told by the same people who mentioned the Trueman thing.

The 7 would cap it off. I've been told that Gale won't be staying either, but not sure how a reserve grade 7 could come across without international appearances[/quote


Seriously? why would a player like French want to come to Hull when he is a current star at a bigger and more successful club like Wigan?
Also he could make a lot more money moving back to the NRL which is where he will go.
We do need a fast elusive French type full back but it wont be him.

Re: Cats Away : Sun Jun 12, 2022 3:01 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

Id happily drop Shaul, Reynolds and Gale, Houghton is lucky that there is no one available to play hooker for 80 minutes.

Shaul is hardly the main problem we have and in all fairness even if Connor had played we would have still been well beaten.
Until this coach does something about the indiscipline this type of defeat will be regular.
When asked about the teams indiscipline all Hodgson says is its something we talk about.Dumb or what?

Re: Cats Away : Sun Jun 12, 2022 3:08 pm  

bonaire wrote:

Seriously? why would a player like French want to come to Hull when he is a current star at a bigger and more successful club like Wigan?
Also he could make a lot more money moving back to the NRL which is where he will go.
We do need a fast elusive French type full back but it wont be him.

I doubt that he'll sign for us. It's an exciting prospect but I think this is one of those occasional rumours that seems to have legs but goes nowhere.

He's stated his desire to return to the NRL and he's 27 in January so I can't see him wanting to stay in Super League for another couple of years. More likely he'll return to the NRL at the end of the season or play one more year at Wigan with an NRL deal already sorted for 2024.

Hope I'm wrong because he'd be a fantastic signing for us.

Re: Cats Away : Sun Jun 12, 2022 3:27 pm  

[quote="bonaire"]

Because he want to play full back...

Re: Cats Away : Sun Jun 12, 2022 3:28 pm  

bonaire wrote:

Shaul is hardly the main problem we have and in all fairness even if Connor had played we would have still been well beaten.
Until this coach does something about the indiscipline this type of defeat will be regular.
When asked about the teams indiscipline all Hodgson says is its something we talk about.Dumb or what?

For someone who says BH is too loyal to players, you're pretty loyal to Shaul