Shauls hardly been given a chance other than against saints in dreadful weather when everyone in the team was appalling

Mitch has played well but not even close to ratu so it's another downgrade

What does Houghton bring? He does the same job as Jordan Johnstone except Houghton is on 5 times more wage

Lovodua should be hooker he's done more in attack in 5 or 6 games than Houghton has in his full career

Friggin hell, you are deluded! Shaul played against Cas away as well and was pretty poor. Why mention Ratu? Fash isn't as good as Scott Logan either.

Your comment on Houghton is just completely disrespectful

He's played in four out of the seven games so far this season, so that's clearly nonsense.

Houghton does nothing except tackle

It wont be until he leaves/retires we will realise how much he held back our attack

100k a year to tackle



My point is yes mitch has done OK but that's the reason we keep going backwards if we're replacing players with players not as good

On the wing... He hasn't played on the wing in his 9 years as a pro

You play James Roby at scrum half he wouldn't be as good played out of position

Connor is a great player at times but hasn't done it in the biggest games that semi final a prime example we was right in it till that moment

2005 no one remembers or cares how we did against leigh Huddersfield and Wakefield..... It was against saints and Leeds what mattered

Shaul has done it the biggest games he scored the winning try in 2016 he was one of our best players in the 2017 semi against Leeds

It's 2022. You don't select someone because he was one of our best players in a game five years ago.

His attitude particularly defensively was very questionable during Radfords last season, we then have a new coach in Hodgson who's decided he's not our number 1 fullback.

He has a very limited game, as did Sneyd and as does Houghton, Hodgson is evolving our style of play with players with a well rounded range of skills in the key positions.

Shaul will be a victim of his limited abilities and salary, and rightly so. He l be released end of the season and the wage invested to better effect.

Talent boy would, totally clueless, I honestly can't remember Shauls last really good game.

100K a year for Houghton is way out you living a your own world.

I’ve said this before but I honestly think that ‘tackle’ at Fev was the turning point.

I remember seeing that at the time and wincing. Didn't the ref just pass it off as an "early tackle"? Did it even get Shaul a penalty (or was it a penalty, but no other sanction?) As a contrast, just imagine if that tackle had happened in the first few games of this season!

Jamie has been a brilliant player for the club and secured the 2016 win at Wembley, which is to this day the greatest day of my life, every Hull fan will be forever grateful for the memories he's provided for us all.

BUT, this is the nature of sport, players come and go. And unfortunately for him, taking into consideration his salary, it would be right for us to let him go come the end of the season. He isn't going to get ahead of Connor at FB, and I don't see him as a hooker nor a winger. It would be a shame for him to spend the rest of his career playing in the reserves on a much lower contract, he deserves more than that.

It's a salary cap sport. We can't keep everyone and if we've got kids that can do a job then we have to let players go to free up cap space so we can sign massive props to squash the opposition.

I'm intrigued

I think we l let Mau and Reynolds go.
Where would we use the 2 quota spots?
Do we move Lane to second row and bring in a loose forward.
Do we keep Lane at loose forward and bring in a second row.
Do we keep Gale
Do we sign an overseas half back to replace Gale.

Taking into account most think we've signed Trueman to replace Reynolds

Options options with some good cap to play around with

To early to make decisions but so what here we go!

1 Connor
2 Mcintosh
3 Tuimavave
4 Griffin
5 Swift
6 Trueman?
7 Gale (As long as he plays a decent number of games)
8 Satae
9 ?
10 Sao
11 ?
12 Savelio
13 Lane

14 Evans
15 Taylor
16 Lovodua
17 Cator

Big decision about Houghton.

Gale is an interesting one. He obviously needs to deliver quickly, but sounds like Hodgson is concerned he'll overdo it - said this earlier in the week: “He’s excited. The important thing for Luke is to not play the game too many times in his head before he gets to it.

“Five weeks out has been a long time for him and he wants to contribute to our performance as well as everyone so he needs to make sure he’s ready to go on Thursday and not today.”

I honestly think Lovodua offers way too much energy and work rate to be left on the bench has to be our starting Hooker eventually.

Would love to see a ball playing 13 to compliment Cator when he's back, someone like Tyrone Peachey

I still think Griffin will end up in the pack.

Had alot of potentially good centres in Wynne, Mitch, Scott, Walker and Ferreira.

That could be an option to replace Ma'u.

I also prefer Lane out wide than through the middle, suits his running game, his best game this year was Salford when he was playing wide.

I'd forgotten about Ferreira. Anyone know how he's doing at London? I can't find their match reports so I don't even know if he's playing.

We should be making a play for Jack Broadbent if he can't agree a deal with Leeds

Think we need a Fullback, halfback and Hooker.

Release Shaul, Reynolds, Gale, Ma'u and Houghton.

If Trueman rumours are true he plays halfback with Connor.

Overseas fullback and hooker.

Replace Johnstone and Bowden internally with academy players.

1 New FB
2 Swift
3 Mitch/Wynne/Scott
4 Carlos
5 Mcintosh
6 Connor
7 Truman
8 Evans
9 Lovodua
10 Satae
11 Griffin
12 Savelio
13 Sao

14 Brown/Fash/Taylor
15 as above
16 Lane/Cator
17 New hooker

Go with quality over quantity and start using the academy players, this is the Saints model.

AP was quoted as saying he'd told BH there will be no new players next year, I posted the link but it (my post) was deleted for some unknown reason.
I haven't found the original.

Personally I'd keep Ma'u, I think playing Griffin in the back row to replace him is a downgrade.

John Davidson pushing the Trueman rumour.