I don't disagree, but being amongst the best available doesn't elevate you beyond your ability.

Anyway, we'll see in 6-8 months time, be quite happy to be proven wrong.

Where's Matty Smith gone too Standee??????

Had you said he was average i'd have debated with you. You said he was rubbish, he clearly isn't rubbish and only a fool would suggest he is.

Anyway, who do you think AP will be targeting now? i'm at a loss.

No idea, hopefully it stays that way until someone is signed. May have to pay a transfer fee?

Think it's more a case of who PG wants

I don't think he'll know right at this moment but the whole rugby league world now knows we're looking for a 7 with a lucrative contract in our back pocket.

I wouldn't say Holdsworth is rubbish but I also don't think he's any world-beater.

If you asked me what combo I'd go for between, Horne/Prince or Holdsworth/Seymour then it wouldn't be the latter.

I think we've come across as a little desperate in the recruitment stakes.
I would have preferred a more low profile way of going about things.

Had a good season playing behind a beaten pack and playing for a poor side most of the season.

23 trys assists (7th best in the league)

Played very well against us in both games last year and was MOTM in the exiles games last year (I think).

Not sure what you want really?

He loves me really.

You are right there. We are coming across as desperate in our search.
AP needs to learn to control his passion in public. His statement about the signing of halfbacks was misjudged.

Interesting that Pearson said he still hopes to get someone in, given the rumours coming out last night that we'd spoke to someone else while over there.

To get to the next level we needed a Chase or Prince alongside Holdsworth to take us there.
Gutted that we've missed out on Prince but I also don't think BS is as hopeless as plenty try to make out. He'll do a job (injury permitting) for us next season.
The revolution into being contenders may just take us that little bit longer than we all hoped.

SBW

Dont care where he plays in the 13

Quote ="east hull FC fan"Interesting that Pearson said he still hopes to get someone in, given the rumours coming out last night that we'd spoke to someone else while over there.'" Going to be difficult now for obvious reasons and the fact the salary cap has increased by 0.6 million dollars next year. Interestingly that the Broncos coach has said that Prince could have made more money if he had signed for us. www.nrl.com/griffin-tried-to-pus ... fault.aspx

Quote ="east hull FC fan"Interesting that Pearson said he still hopes to get someone in, given the rumours coming out last night that we'd spoke to someone else while over there.'" Going to be difficult now for obvious reasons and the fact the salary cap has increased by 0.6 million dollars next year. Interestingly that the Broncos coach has said that Prince could have made more money if he had signed for us. www.nrl.com/griffin-tried-to-pus ... fault.aspx

Could be wrong here but we were talking to prince for 3 weeks before anyone was aware of it and then the story came out (probably his agent doing his job by getting prince the best deal for him ) and a good job he did I might add . So I dont think AP was initially going about it in a high profile way tbh

He's busy warming up for his Francois Botha (fought Tyson) scrap later in Nov.

Who ? Miller , the man Potter wants to keep.

As others have said, the damage was done with his public slating of our half-back scenario earlier this year.
He put pressure on himself by saying they weren't good enough and that he was going to bring in superior.

Quote ="Dave K."Going to be difficult now for obvious reasons and the fact the salary cap has increased by 0.6 million dollars next year. Interestingly that the Broncos coach has said that Prince could have made more money if he had signed for us. www.nrl.com/griffin-tried-to-pus ... fault.aspx'" Very interesting when you consider we've said we couldn't match their offer. I just hope we don't buy someone for the sake of it, those rarely turn out to be a good decision.

Quote ="Dave K."Going to be difficult now for obvious reasons and the fact the salary cap has increased by 0.6 million dollars next year. Interestingly that the Broncos coach has said that Prince could have made more money if he had signed for us. www.nrl.com/griffin-tried-to-pus ... fault.aspx'" Very interesting when you consider we've said we couldn't match their offer. I just hope we don't buy someone for the sake of it, those rarely turn out to be a good decision.

No, somebody as well as Prince & Miller.

The flaw in your reasoning when you make statements like this and the prior one is that you fail to distinguish between the reality of a situation, and the fantasy of how you think it should be. You consistently bemoan the quality of halves we are linked with, but then seldom respond when asked who you think we should approach instead. IIRC, one of the few times you did offer a reply, it was some nonsense about remembering the days when we had the likes of Sterling, which is completely irrelevant because the likes of him simply don't exist in enough numbers any longer.

Looking at the teams who finished in the top 4 this year, I'd personally say that only the 2 Catalan blokes and Briers are any better than Holdsworth.

why do we all think the world has ended because Scott Prince has not signed?

He isn't the first and certainly will not be the last to turn an English team down. Are we all forgetting what strides we have made in one whole year, and with the new signings already made by hell we will improve again next year. At least we rae attempting to sign these "quality" signings unlike some clubs I could mention.

Please do not fall into the trolling dobbins traps and believe that because we do not have Scott Prince our season has collapsed because believe me if we had signed only one player for nextyear we would still have signed more quality than our close neighbours.

Sit back and look forward to another improving year ahead, and who knows, more signings may just be around the corner. Even Peter Sterling turned us down once.

For Hull FC to become successful we need to produce our own stars through the Academy.
Very difficult I know , but we will always struggle to entice players to sign.
Hull's geographical position and bad press doesn't help our recruitment of players from UK and abroad.
Maybe we will have to be patient and wait another year or so. Holdsworth is a good signing and he will improve us in the halfbacks.
I think AP will now be learning that throwing cash around does not always work in RL.
Also Adam hold back on the public statements.
Keep your powder dry !!

I think holdsworth will be massive for us this yr. Just in a rugby/hull conversation earlier in the yr i hypothetically said about how he'd be great in a decent team and I'd like him at hull. Then later as it turned out he signed. His 1game in a decent team with forwards to play behind and he was m o m even with top players around him. To say he is rubbish is dumb. Gutted about chase more so prince but no one else is targeting these type of players and getting this close. Nearly doesn't count i know, gotta come off eventually. But either way this team as is is far better than the one that started last yr!