A stress fracture Humberside reporting. Is there money to pay him off and bring Luke Thompson in??

Awful news.

Pretty sure it was a stress fracture in the foot that happened to Gareth Ellis in the warm up in what was due to be his debut in 2013. He didn't play until round fourteen in the May.

Satae is already on the injured list and not training

you are correct
looks like another 11 game season
possibly 30 games in three seasons has to tell the club something even if he is a local lad.Thats a lot of money to pay a player per game
With Bowden happy to take his salary and not move on looks like we are back to Fash

Any news on Jack Brown and his shoulder surgery?

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... n=sharebar Due to cost savings according to Paul Cooke.

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... n=sharebar Due to cost savings according to Paul Cooke.

Really feel for him. Got his self in good shape. Then this. Nothing he could have done to prevent it. Gutted for the lad

I'd take what Cooke says with a pinch of salt

Satae had a slight calf strain didn't he? I'd assumed he would be fit to start the season..

If we start the season with Satae, Sao, Brown, Fash and Bowden as our props I'd be tempted to ask Ma'u to do some shifts in the middle

Ma'u played as a middle in that awful performance against Wigan last season but he played well. It would leave us short in the back row though. Outside the 17 we seem to lack numbers in that position. Wardle would have been a decent signing as cover.

He's no reason to make it up but I find it hard to believe.

...otherwise Griffin, Reynolds, Cator, Brown, Houghton, Connor, Wynne and probably others wouldn't have had ops after Taylor's injury.

I'd start him in the back row and shift him to prop when we bring Sao or Satae off.

Scott to cover back row from the bench



just an idea, but it could work short term until Evans ban is up

He just seems to have a bit of an axe to grind.

He had a falling out with the previous regime and AP sacked his best mate.

We've had other players having ops in the off season too. Taylors foot injury healed last season. He missed the last few games due to broken ribs.

To be honest I thought Cooke usually spoke some sense but can’t take his piece in Taylor seriously. To claim Taylor’s foot injury is a cost saving exercise is just laughable. If that’s the case then I assume he can back this up with facts and evidence? I’m pretty confident that Hull FC would have medical insurance for all the playing staff for one thing. Another why would the club save money then have surgery on all the other players? There’s also a cost involved in treating the injury/rehab regardless of surgery, plus the cost to the club of Taylor sat in the stands and not in the field so yes Paul it’s really been a cost saving measure


I can’t believe even Cooke is that deluded to believe Taylor’s lasted set back is due to cost saving. So not just the teams medical staff but all involved in regards to Taylor’s foot injury last time decided that on all the info they had in his foot that it would be better not to do any surgery just to save money? Really!!!! Give your head a bang Cooke.

two out of the first three games we should have been expected to win but this shows how poor on paper we are in the front row until we see what Evans can do.None of us have any great expectations for this season but we could easily be 0/3 before Evans comes in.
We must have the most pre season serious injury crocked players in S/L coming back in to a first team squad
Reynolds
Gale
Griffin
McIntosh
Shaul
Houghton
Cator

Now we have Taylor sidelined for three or four months

Aren't most of those back in full training now?

I'd still back us to beat Wakey and Salford.

The Taylor injury is unfortunate. He looked in great nick. How many teams have 5 or 6 top props? Saints have Walmsley, Lees, Amor, LMS, Paasi. Take 2 off that list and even they'd struggle.

I read it that it was cost saving as in to get the player back playing quicker rather than months out after surgery. Cost saving to keep him playing rather than player welfare. I think because of who said it, certain people, not you, will automatically think he meant the worst. I honestly think it’s time to put the Cooke saga to bed. The club have moved on, the fans should.

Taylor out for 12 to 16 weeks. Aiming for round 10.

Cooke talking out of his backside regarding surgery

Gutted Taylor out, but it's a big chance for Brown to come in and prove he can take over from Taylor.

Just hope Hodgson gives him the game time, to progress

More likely back to Fash

What on earth were we thinking back in 2018 handing out a 5 year deal???

Probably "Here is an excellent prop in his prime years with an excellent injury record, lets sign him long term" as that was the situation in 2018. The past 2 years have been unfortunate but that's life.
I'm sure we were all happy with it at the time.

Feel sorry for Tag,Time for the Young Guns to step up.