Come on Hullers, off back to your own boards and take your pettty squabbles with you.

not sqawbling mate just leting u know were the deal is thats all keep your hair on daft lad

Would that be like the bans you keep getting

How would you know.

We took a chance on Fozzard and Hilton (2nd stint) and both missed only a handful of games so our medical staff are good judges where that's concerned.

Are we going for some sort of record or something?

Trying to the get the majority of our salary money off the field rather than on it.

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also from same paper

Carvell is one of the best go forward props around in SL and when fit will do a superb job for you. His problem is he is a big bloke and does pick up a lot of injuries and is not a quick healer. £50k is good business but a 4 year deal seems a bit much tbh. His offer at Hull was estimated to be around the £105k a year mark.

Me too.

Legder in the Yorkshire Post refers to him being on £135K. That is very close to the mark. Which, as I said, will mean a few players having to leave.

no wonder you lot have to encourage your youngsters, 135k on a prop who isn't even an international regular.

good grief.

He says 'fact' why would you question it?

Are you not worried about paying this much for a player who played 9 Sl games this season?

Terribly worried. But you know, we're the wire and we don't care. That'll be 50% of our salary cap going to 2 players. how do we do it. All facts.

A lot of our fans complain about injuries so if we do sign Gareth Carvell then the following players in our squad would all have poor injury records over the years, that would be almost a 3rd of the squad which is frightening really when your trying to keep a healthy squad in tact.

1. Stuart Reardon
2. Paul Johnson
3. Chris Bridge
4. Vinnie Anderson
5. Paul Wood
6. Lee Briers
7. Simon Grix
8. Paul Rauhihi
9. Gareth Carvell ?

If your signing players with a track record of injuries then its no suprise is it that we have quite a few injuries each season.

From the Times.

Well, you wouldn't sign anyone at all then would you.

Common sense tells you that if your a club thats been suffering from injuries for the last few seasons then you don`t bring in a player that has only played 6 games in the previous season where most of his season was missed through injury, your asking for trouble.

Players have minor knocks at most clubs and miss the odd game in a season as thats the nature of the game, its these players with long spells out through injury we should be avoiding, maybe thats just to much common sense for this board and i appologise for that.

Has also had a hip injury and the latest was a groin problem.

Deal.

Carvells stats:

2003 - 21 appearances, 199 tackles, 1578 metres
2004 - 13 appearances, 145 tackles, 1335 metres
2005 - 19 appearances, 243 tackles, 1824 metres
2006 - 25 appearances, 482 tackles, 2289 metres
2007 - 17 appearances, 299 tackles, 1677 metres
2008 - 9 appearances, 155 tackels, 957 metres

So 23 appearances on average, 254 tackels, 1610 metres.

At £135k a year that's £5.8K a game, £530 a tackle 0r £83 a metre.

If you think he is worth that, for another 4 seasons, then good luck to you.

Hull supporters saying he is rubbish now he has left the club. Zut alors!

His average appearances are wrong there, more like 17.5 games.

Nobody is saying he is rubbish. We are suggesting that a player who has averaged just 17 games per season over the last 6 years might fairly be considered to be injury prone and a somewhat high risk for a long-term big-money contract.

And yes, we were having the same discussion on our board before we knew he was leaving.

Nick Fozzard joined Warrington with a terrible injury record. He then hardly missed a game in four years for Warrington and St Helens (until this season).