Kevin Locke & Michael Dobson .
Locke turned up in July unfit and with one good leg and was still the best player we had.
Be nice to see what he could do fully fit with a full pre-season behind him.

Be nice to see what Dobson can do in a good side ....

Would be nice, pity then eh !!

He left hull kr remember he's in a good side now.

Edited for accuracy.

This poll is trending differently to the earlier one. Even taking account of the emergence of Terence Campese into the poll, it is looking like Hull KR fans are dominating the voting. I hope that other fans will take another look at these videos before voting. First Todd Carney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRaKlzxMl2E If he stays fit, and focused, he could be Man of Steel 2015. His main rival may be this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N04LVmjuAiE Interesting game from 2012, when Parramatta scored 5 converted tries in the last 15 minutes, and who should be playing on the Parramatta team? No less than four of the incoming NRL imports: Fui Fui Moi Moi -- Leigh Centurions Benjamin Roberts -- Castleford Tigers Villiami Sione "Willie" Tonga (try) -- Catalans Dragons Kenneth Sio (try) -- Hull Kingston Rovers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1W7IDraWGI

This poll is trending differently to the earlier one. Even taking account of the emergence of Terence Campese into the poll, it is looking like Hull KR fans are dominating the voting. I hope that other fans will take another look at these videos before voting. First Todd Carney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRaKlzxMl2E If he stays fit, and focused, he could be Man of Steel 2015. His main rival may be this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N04LVmjuAiE Interesting game from 2012, when Parramatta scored 5 converted tries in the last 15 minutes, and who should be playing on the Parramatta team? No less than four of the incoming NRL imports: Fui Fui Moi Moi -- Leigh Centurions Benjamin Roberts -- Castleford Tigers Villiami Sione "Willie" Tonga (try) -- Catalans Dragons Kenneth Sio (try) -- Hull Kingston Rovers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1W7IDraWGI

Eh? The average age of Salfords squad is a lot younger than Hull KR if that's what your getting at?

Quote ="JEAN CAPDOUZE"This poll is trending differently to the earlier one. Even taking account of the emergence of Terence Campese into the poll, it is looking like Hull KR fans are dominating the voting. I hope that other fans will take another look at these two videos before voting. First Todd Carney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRaKlzxMl2E If he stays fit, and focused, he could be Man of Steel 2015. His main rival may be this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N04LVmjuAiE'" Bloody ell it'll be murder when the hull kr lads go out for a drink? Kelly and Bailey in the same team and wheyman, they'll be on lock Down.

Quote ="JEAN CAPDOUZE"This poll is trending differently to the earlier one. Even taking account of the emergence of Terence Campese into the poll, it is looking like Hull KR fans are dominating the voting. I hope that other fans will take another look at these two videos before voting. First Todd Carney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRaKlzxMl2E If he stays fit, and focused, he could be Man of Steel 2015. His main rival may be this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N04LVmjuAiE'" Bloody ell it'll be murder when the hull kr lads go out for a drink? Kelly and Bailey in the same team and wheyman, they'll be on lock Down.

Without going through the far end of a fart working out averages I would be highly surprised if this was the case. The intention with our recruitment has been to reduce the average age of the squad, to the extent that our oldest player next year will be Cockayne at 31 - and he isn't necessarily going to play.

Plus Methuselah Morley and Old father time Puletua must skew your averages upwards slightly



Whoops almost forgot - Players I am most excited about seeing would be Carney and Kelly. Someone mentioned Locke and seeing him up to full fitness and ready to go, which will make him another I will look forward to watching.

Surprisingly the Two Hull Teams between them have imported 9 New to SL overseas players between them. Hull KR 6 & Hull FC 3

the other 10 SL teams account for only 6...
Cas - Junior Moors & Ben Roberts
Wire - Ashton Sims
Leeds - Adam Cuthbertson
Catalan - Todd Carney- Willie Tonga.
the other teams have only signed non Fed players already in/ known to the Comp

More overseas Players retired or went back to NRL than were brought in by the above :- Willie Manu , Michael Monaghan, Francis Meli, Brent Webb, Justin Poore Retired, Sam Williams , Antonio Kaufusi, Kris Keating, Shannan Mcpherson , Steve Rapira,Jason Chan, Neville Costigan, Sia Soliola, Blake Green went home.



With Apparently Leeds Wigan Warrington Saints looking to their Academies
Outside of Wigan , Hull has the biggest catchment area for Club trained players, is this influx of signings a testament to the paucity of talent in the area or a failure to capitalise on it ? honest question not a dig ..

how old is bailey and wheyman?

Hull have brought in two overseas players, Minichiello and Michaels, not three. And two out, Miller & Heremaia.

Overall we have 7: Rankin, Paleaaesina, Paea, Michaels, Minichiello, Sa, Talanoa.

7 is too many for us, IMO. I'd much prefer us to mave a squad along the lines of Huddersfield.

Regarding the catchment area, I'd argue that the Hull catchment area isn't as big as some might think. Hull has a population of what, 260k-ish, shared between two clubs. Leeds (where I'm involved in junior RL) have the city, which is three times bigger than Hull, to themselves.

That said, the catchment isn't the problem, the players are out there, it's what the club does with them (or hasn't done) to bring them through, which has been the problem. If you looked at the number and quality of juniors we've brought through, there is a clear dip from say 2008ish to probably 2013. This, we've been told by Pearson, is due to a massive under investment in our youth setup from the old board, which we're still feeling the legacy of now.

Since Pearson has been here, he's invested heavily in our youth set up in order to rectify this. In the last 2/3 seasons we've seen the emergence of Jamie Shaul, Chris Green, Dean Hadley, Josh Bowden, Ben Crooks & Tom Lineham break into the 17 (ok, maybe chalk Crooks off that list). We've had four players in the recent England academy squad (Logan, Turgut, Abdull & Lancaster), as well as the Tyson-Wilson brothers who'll both feature at some point his season (Harry made his debut last year). James Cunningham who was on loan at London last season will likely get game time too, due to our lack of options at hooker.

Hopefully we're heading in the right direction, time will tell.

I assume you are including Naughton as a Hull FC import? He is English.

At Hull we are actually in the best place we have been for a long time with regards to youth development. We've had 4 guys play for England academy in the current series. Shaul, Lineham, Green, Bowden, Hadley, Abdull, Lancaster, Logan, Tyson Wilson, Cunningham. All good young players who have been given their debuts over the last two or three years. Not to mention Turgut who hasn't played yet but is captaining England.

Just a reminder, if you already voted in the poll earlier, before I accidentally wiped out the results (by inserting the name Terence Campese on to the list), please place your vote again.

You can also change your vote at any time. The only restriction is to choose a maximum of two (2) players.

Both turned 30 since the season ended

The influx of signings is most probably indicative of a few factors, but the main one is that we have had a massive overhaul of playing staff at HKR. Our academy structures struggle to produce 2 or 3 good youngsters a year, so to replace 13 (15/16 if you include loans) of last seasons squad was going to be a big ask.

That said our struggles are being compounded by the fact that Hull seem to have wised up a great deal, after a number of years of underinvestment in their academies and whilst I see ours is improving you only need look at the academies you mention to see we are way behind them - we are however not alone in this respect.

Todd Carney is still narrowly ahead in the poll. However we have recorded only one third of the votes that were recorded in the previous poll, before Terence Campese was added to the list.

Please vote, if you haven't already done so, in the new poll.

There isn't a section for "none of the above"!

No, we have no place for xenophobes in our poll.

Tell me, did an Australian once sleep with your wife?

On paper! Like last season Salford looked a good side!

Try doing some homework on fc before criticising our junior and academy system. 3 players in the England academy team last Friday night and another the week before, Abdul taking the mom last Friday.

You forgot to mention you're giving one of those rarities a British HB a go that couldn't get past two Aussies at Salford and had to leave to do so.