Off to Hull. www1.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... rt-howarth

Off to Hull. www1.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... rt-howarth

GOOD........... Luck to him.

Lucky Hull FC, That's there top 4 finish Guaranteed this season

I was beginning to think we'd never get rid of him.

His first season i don't actually think he did that bad. You would think a loan move to Saints though would of made him a better player but he seemed to have gone backwards. Id would only remember him for the pass he did at the start of last season against Wakefield at home.

We haven't been blessed with quality, quick number 9's over the years have we? Alker was a real grafter that always gave 100%, Mark Lee had a smart rugby brain and Peter Edwards was quite decent but all have lacked natural speed and skill in such a key area. Let's hope this Hood turns into a good signing or Theo gets a shot at hooker and performs.

Ideally a great balance would be smart player with some guile and an interchange impact nine making quick and elusive runs from the PTB. Let's hope our new worldwide scouting network can unearth the next Cameron Smith and James Roby?



Seriously though looking at the strengths and weaknesses of our squad for this year it's the one area that concerns me the most at this moment but I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised.

Howarth has been signed by the signs in a cut price deal to go to Hull as 3rd choice for the 9 position after Danny Houghton & James Cunningham. so it will take an injury crisis to get him on the pitch at the KC.
He'd have been 4th choice for us after Lee, Fages & Hood , probably 5th as I'd rather play Harry Files.
Technically adept but always looked like he was playing through treacle, and was prone to throwing out telegraphed passes.
the dummy half run game in that position is now so crucial as defences & tackling techniques improve. I would expect him to be gracing Hull's Dual reg Side .

Good luck Hull just not good enough for the direction
we are going

Be wary of telling the truth over on the Hull board. Most answers are accompanied by sly digs or open hostility. Some serious bell-endery on there. The decent folk over there need to be careful that the voices of reason are not drowned-out by the musings of idiots.

Amen, on most forums

Still stand by my original thoughts that is never a hooker in a million years but will make a decent loose!