I never heard anyone say that Cooke needed bulking up. If anything he was on the large side for a half.

I had the opportunity to talk at length to Shaul, Lineham, Cunningham and Crooks all at the same time last year and of the three Crooks was easily the most well balanced, polite and mature. The other three were just daft young kids taking the p155 with Lineham thinking he was gods gift to everything. I don't get how where Crooks supposed 'awful' attitude has come from that everyone in the know seesm to be talking about

I have never met Crooks and can't comment on his attitude.

I am not in the know and have no knowledge of what may or may not have been going on behind the scenes.

All I know is that last season we had a dream team centre who was scoring tries for fun and this season he's deemed not good enough, mainly apparently because his defence is poor.

Theres plenty on here who claim to be in the ear of AP, Radders and all the players alike. Been told all things fact about Hull FC and the rest of the world.

Yet when a perfect chance to get some info comes along like the BBQ on sat, not one of the #intheknow has posted "i got told on sat by....."

Joseph Paulo & Mitch Allgood look surplus to requirements at Parra . Paulo , A skillful player who prefers playing second row & Allgood who played city origin a couple of years back .

Yeamo's stealing a living, we all love him but for everyone saying Crooks can't tackle what does Yeamo offer apart from being able to put a hit in? It's the same argument in reverse. Crooks has huge potential, Yeamo's best days are behind him. Can't believe we'd let him go.

Wembley has a lot to answer to regarding Crooks, deserved his dream team slot as one of the best 2 centres in SL until then and he's never recovered. Confidence shot at and then Radders comes in with his shuffling about policy to add to to this. There is a top SL player there, it needs nurturing and bringing out again.

My opinion its nothing to do with attitude its all about miss management.
yes Crooks has made some defensive errors but doesnt Radford see the errors of Whiting when played at centre or Yeaman.Whiting was shocking at Bradford.Would he have played against KR had it not been for injury probably yes.
Now if you are Ben Crooks watching that how would you feel?
How would you feel if the club plays a rookie under 19 centre ahead of you when it was an ideal opportunity to be recalled.
At 88 or 89 kilos Crooks is hardly lightweight.he is an attacking player and you play to the strengths of that player not highlight to the world his weakness like Radford has done.
If Radford was a good coach he could have done a lot more to protect The right edge of our defence.
When you think of the damage Radford has done to this club in just one season,and the big big hole Adam Pearson has dug for himself backing him I really hope he quits before the season end an gives Adam Pearson a way out.
It could happen if we suffer a big defeat against HKR.

Most fans think he's not up to the job but your constant posts about him are incredibly boring.

we could have a thread about xmas and he will still go on about radders, hes boring

so are your replys

well don't read the post then

Harsh. Its last 20 posts are quite varied:
Slating Radford IIIIIIIIII
Stirring about Crooks II
Slating Crooks I
Slating Arundel I
Slating Lineham I
Slating Sa III
Praising Hadley I
Claiming Whiting, Yeaman and Green are leaving I
Slating our backing up I
Slating Moi Moi II

Its first 20 posts were
Slating Radford IIIII
Stirring about Crooks I
Stirring about Crookes I
Slating our defence I
Slating Tuson II
Slating Azza
Slating Houghton I
Slating Arundel I
Praising Pre Radford recruitment I
Praising Thompson I
Praising Ellis I
Praising Feka I
Praising Travis Burns I
Predicting an easy derby win for FC (very very strangely the only result prediction) I

So dismal. Do you paint, Bonaire, you have an artistic name? When selecting colours, given your gloomy outlook I advise you to look out for the..
BLACK!! Black! Like the clouds of death that follow me into the Forest of Doom! And hide in the wardrobe of darkness! Black! Listen! Listen! Do you hear? The moon is weeping in a secret room! Oh! Oh! The monks are troubled and full of woe! I'm a fly! Trapped in a jar of shadows! They lock me in the cellar and feed me pins!

Bit like a troll would do. Might as well be even if he isn't.

Very good.

brill, its black black black black,ha ha ha, spot on about about his posts

I like the look of Paulo but I don't know where he'd fit.

Yes I am dismayed about the clubs future or lack of it under Radford and will continue to criticise him until he leaves the club.
Please don't try to be clever as you obviously are not.

& if he steadily improves us & as a club we begin to succeed you'll still criticise until he leaves? Bit pathetic.

Steadily improves us! From what? This season! Would be hard not to, what's your idea of improvement?

Your postivity didn't last long



I prefer positive Tinkerman.

I'm really bored of it now, I'm pretty positive about signings so far, just can't help feeling we are going to have another season like this, with Radford in charge, hope not. I'm just going to wait and see now, he's going nowhere so no point going on

I think we will improve, if we had Sneyd this year, we would have won at least 3/4 more games, plus Pryce and MM are big improvements on what we have.

We are deserpate for a bit of quality in the centres.

Big questions are still there about the coaching, hopefully the rumours are correct and someone will cone to support LR.

As I said at the start, i think we will certainly improve, but not confident it will be enough.

Looking at the table and the top 7, plus Salford (who will be strong next year), which team could we replace?

Widnes,Catalan even Cas will struggle they are losing some key personel, we will have to make the 8 as finishing below it is very very risky, anything could happen then!

The worrying thing for me is that this season as been the easiest super league for some time, apart from Leeds, I don't think not much in it on paper! Between most teams, just better coached teams , just my opinion of course

I think Rankin should be first choice FB and Shaul moved elsewhere..This isn't a pop at Saul but I don't really rate him as a fullback, his defence quite often has being lacklustre and his one on one isn't great but is better than Crooks. He gives up on making tackles near the line far too easily IMO.. He links up really well but that's what FB are expected to do, yes he has some pace but the rest of his game doesn't shout to me top full back in the making.
Is there a position where he might be better suited?
IF we are binning Crooks off what about Shaul for centre?