Re: Pearson : Mon Apr 24, 2023 10:18 pm  

Just staggered with some of the naivity on here.

Who honestly believes ALL of our OOC players are waiting patiently for a Hull FC contract offer at the end of the season. I would wager that 90% of them already know if they are being retained or not, many will have already signed elsewhere. Sure we have some replacements lined up already.

Davey Litten is an outstanding prospect but that doesn't always translate, 7 others ready to go - week in week out ?? Do REALLY hope they are retained in a sensible manner. I remember Radders being a top prospect who had signed two contracts allegedly & was lost to the Bulls.

Re: Pearson : Tue Apr 25, 2023 3:21 pm  

bishops finger wrote:

I won't deny that TS did lay foundations that were now seemingly benefitting from, but I'm not sure how much further he would have took us though, and I'm not just saying that because he's gone or because he's now coaching you either. Under TS we could always pull of a shock win against a top team, or push them close, but we couldn't do it consistently though, we had no structure and our defence was terrible too, poor fitness and line speed, Sky commentators loved us because we'd throw the ball around and score some great tries, he loves that 'heads up'style of play but that's no good when your still losing games.
Time will tell whether he can change your fortunes, he's obviously got a track record of doing it so maybe he will, but I just feel his methods are out dated now, his softly softly approach to fitness training in pre season looks like it's a terrible idea now.

His 'soft' approach to pre season training could be to try and tackle or recurring problem of flopping from July onwards which the team have done for about 6 years now. Whatever approach we did under Radford/Last/Hodgson it wasn't working. Time will tell if intensity increases during the season and let's see how we perform over the summer/autumn.

[Chris71]

Re: Pearson : Tue Apr 25, 2023 5:01 pm  

UllFC wrote:

His 'soft' approach to pre season training could be to try and tackle or recurring problem of flopping from July onwards which the team have done for about 6 years now. Whatever approach we did under Radford/Last/Hodgson it wasn't working. Time will tell if intensity increases during the season and let's see how we perform over the summer/autumn.

I believe TS alluded to that in some interviews pre season and the fact we had so many players coming back from injuries and long lay offs plus the number of injuries we have been picking regularly.

Re: Pearson : Wed May 10, 2023 2:28 pm  

Koucash gone bankrupt, rich owners not easy to come by in Rugby League