obst has always impressed me when ive seen him for wakefield.i think he would have been even better with a top club.

Well said.

Why is he moving again..?

Briggs is that good he's currently residing in Bradfords reserve grade, and getting slated aswell. Orr is having a re-union like honeymoon at Cas atm. He's not been consistently better or worse than Obst over the last couple of years. Blake Green looks poor so far to me, he might improve as he settles in, he may not. What could you have possibly seen to label him an organiser of any kind?
Diskin is fair enough, we should have been in for him but he was probably after too long a deal and would of meant Houghtons development possibly being affected.

Also don't forget, we weren't even looking for half back cover for this year until our original cover had been sacked.

Key point - Obst wouldn't be at Hull if Tansey had behaved. On the back of that disruption things look to have turned out better than they might have.

People won't accept that Tansey was our cover.

Is that despite agar announcing at the forum last year that his main priority was a back up half back and the fact that phelps is playing where tansey did?

I have been surprised by Green, he looks a good 6 and will better playing outside Dobson.

I said at the time I would have liked to see Briggs brought in but we have to remember we had Nicklas ready to step up this season and Agar obviously thinks the likes of Nicklas/Williams are better bets than Briggs/Moore which is fair enough.

Presumably because our coach stated that he wanted to sign a back up half back when tansey was still part of the squad

Tansey was our FB [iand[/i halfback cover. Not many of them about eh? Probably right then that 2 players were brought in to replace him.
As regards to what was said at forums, I didn't think you believed anything said at these things? He also said that if something didn't come off he was more than happy to use what we had. I'm sure Obst on a 2 year deal was nowhere near what Agar had in mind before Tanseys feck up.

Can you provide me with a list of players that can give us what Obst can but better quality and be prepared to take on the same role?

Of course we were looking - Sammut and Chase are the proof of that. But we were happy to go into the season with Tansey as back up instead of, for example, rushing to sign Briggs who is ripping it up in Bradford's 20s every week - not. Obst was a really good piece of opportunist business by Hull. Phelps directly replaced Tansey as you say and in times of emergency could even play half back - just ike Tansey in fact.

No, we were looking for half back cover before tansey's final misdemeanour. The fact tansey may have been used as a last resort option doesn't take away from the fact that the club wanted to sign a back up half back even before berrigan left.

Just tried ringing a few to ask if they would be prepared to do it but they're all at training. Give agar a shout later on and maybe he can help you

How many times did tansey play in the halfs during his time at the club?

A few times. You'd have to ask Agar but wait til they've finished training.

You can just admit that you can't, you know.

You asked me a nonsense question so I gave a nonsense answer. How do I know which players would have been prepared to come to Hull on teh same terms as obst?

Come on, he was our back up half back. We barely had a half back on the pitch throughout 2010 so presumably tansey, being our back up half, must have played there plenty last year

He wasn't our back up half last year.

Berrigan was.

Played there a handful of times didn't he? Mind you, he probably would have played there more if we'd had a back up full back.

Was he? Thought he was our 1st choice hooker until he got injured then flitted around a bit before finishing at centre. washbrook played there more times than berrigan

Whiting

Played on the wing mostly didn't he? Because we didn't have a back up winger.

Which Whiting would of been if we'd had a back up Winger.