Re: Conner's a Gonner ... : Fri Oct 14, 2022 7:58 pm  

Well we've got a very experienced coach, and a brand new set of pivots.

Hoy
Trueman/Clifford
Lovodua/dwyer

Plenty of pace we previously lacked and creativity spread out rather than channelled all through one player.

Hopefully a couple more signings to come and lets hope we finally have luck with injurys.

Good foundations set in pivots, and a huge amount of cap available to build around those signings end of next season

Re: Conner's a Gonner ... : Fri Oct 14, 2022 8:57 pm  

Maybe the hull fair shirt was the final straw for him

Re: Conner's a Gonner ... : Fri Oct 14, 2022 9:00 pm  

we wasted him at FB - that was mental to play him there
utter madness and BH should have been fired for thinking that

injury prone but will be a very very handy 6 for Giants

Re: Conner's a Gonner ... : Sat Oct 15, 2022 7:48 am  

Tarquin Fuego wrote:

we wasted him at FB - that was mental to play him there
utter madness and BH should have been fired for thinking that

injury prone but will be a very very handy 6 for Giants

He was awful for us at stand off. I admit he was pretty poor in a lot of respects at fullback, but we performed even worse with him at 6. I suspect like us, Giants will get 6/7 games out of him pulling rabbits out of a hat, and the rest of the season injured or poor.

Re: Conner's a Gonner ... : Thu Oct 20, 2022 7:57 am  

mwindass wrote:

Be interesting to see how much of the season he misses

Well according to our coach between 4-6 months. You appear to be out of date in Hull regarding current treatment on this type of injury. 10 months may have been needed in the past but no longer. The club have consulted widely in the NRL and over here, and of course with the consultants involved and 4-6 months appears to be consensus. Liam sutcliffe had a similar injury last year and was back within that time period.
Connor has already had the surgery so the clock has already started, Watson has said there’s a possibility he may even be ready for the start of the season- but obviously he will have had no preseason so it’s unlikely that will be the case.
I suspect the 10 month quoted was a combination of bad journalism and spin.

Re: Conner's a Gonner ... : Thu Oct 20, 2022 8:35 am  

Thanks Jools for copying and pasting an online article, don't know what we would do without you.

Re: Conner's a Gonner ... : Thu Oct 20, 2022 8:55 am  

Played his best games for us at centre. Lack of pace exposed his game at full back, and never convinced at 6.

We relied on him too much and it was a case of “give it to Connor”.

Think he’d have been even better for us if it wasn’t all on him.

Re: Conner's a Gonner ... : Thu Oct 20, 2022 9:06 am  

There’s nothing quite like a supercilious poster Is there?..
Perhaps jools was just letting folk see an on line article that they hadn’t previously seen..
On subject of Connor.

A thought for the few vocal fans on here that wanted him to stay..
He made it clear some months ago he no longer wanted to play for FC.
So why make a player fulfill his last year contract when he doesn’t want to be at the club.
Accept he’s gone and let’s move on.
Time will tell if he can win the giants a trophy.
I hope he does actually for Ken Davys sake.

Re: Conner's a Gonner ... : Thu Oct 20, 2022 9:20 am  

I think somewhere between the two you'll find the more accurate estimate. Hull will obviously spin it their way and Huddersfield the same. Only time will tell.
I was pretty neutral on his release to be honest, probably leaning more towards being disappointed, but everything i've seen or read this week makes me think Hull have made the right decision .

Re: Conner's a Gonner ... : Thu Oct 20, 2022 9:22 am  

boardwalkempire4 wrote:

There’s nothing quite like a supercilious poster Is there?..
Perhaps jools was just letting folk see an on line article that they hadn’t previously seen..
On subject of Connor.

A thought for the few vocal fans on here that wanted him to stay..
He made it clear some months ago he no longer wanted to play for FC.
So why make a player fulfill his last year contract when he doesn’t want to be at the club.
Accept he’s gone and let’s move on.
Time will tell if he can win the giants a trophy.
I hope he does actually for Ken Davys sake.

It's also on the other thread, plus Jools has a real bee in her bonnet when it comes to Hull/Connor and Pearson, just coming on here to have digs at the club. Still not sure she is over it.