www.sporthull.co.uk/hullfc/news/ ... ticle.html Pretty much expected really. Tansey Whiting Turner Yeaman Briscoe Washbrook Long O'Meley Houghton Radford Tickle Burnett Fitzgibbon Subs Moa Dowes Nicklaus or Cunningham McShane I'd leave Hall and one of the young ones out.

www.sporthull.co.uk/hullfc/news/ ... ticle.html Pretty much expected really. Tansey Whiting Turner Yeaman Briscoe Washbrook Long O'Meley Houghton Radford Tickle Burnett Fitzgibbon Subs Moa Dowes Nicklaus or Cunningham McShane I'd leave Hall and one of the young ones out.

I'd be tempted to start nicklas at 6, washy to 13, fitz second row burnet bench but I think agar will play the side you put with hall on the bench instead of nicklas/Cunningham.

Me too, play people in their positions, Nicklas is the only stand off we have so play him there, did well last game with his limited time in the wrong position.

Give him a game, be great for him to play along Long, he will also have Washy at 13 to help him out.

And tansey at one, with three ball handlers in the side he just needs to play a basic game.

Tansey
Whiting
Hall
Yeaman
Briscoe
Turner
Long
O'Meeley
Houghton
Radford
Tickle
Fitzgibbon
Washbrook

Moa
Dowes
Burnett
McShane

Don't think playing either of the youngsters against a big physical french side would do them any favours. Not a fan of Turner at 6 but that would allow Washy to go to 13 and Burnett to play from the bench.

Are you happy with hall playing Paul?

Whiting
Hall
Turner
Yeaman
Briscoe
Tansey
Long
O'Meley
Houghton
Radford
Tickle
fitz
Washy

Subs
Moa
Dowes
Burnett
McShane

Yes, he is a player that you need to persist with, dropping him just leaves more unanswered questions. Agar has been criticised for not giving him a run at centre so I think we should go with it. Plus I don't rate Turner much at centre anyway.

Against the physical French outfit, he'll get pasted every time he attampts a tackle. That Sa bloke will have a fun game against Hall

Hall would be up against Sa, Baile or Raguin all big men who could give him a torrid time in defence.

I would prefer Whiting in the centre this week.

I don't think there are any unanswered questions about Hall. The only reason we should persist with him is if we literally have no other option.

Hall has been poor the last few games, while playing at centre, Turner has been poor at stand off in most games this year, time for a change.

i wouldnt be disapoinnted if both where dropped and we played Cunningham at centre as he very good defence and Nicklas at 6.

Wont happen unless we get any more injuries neither will play IMO.

Why isnt Liam Kent getting a chance?

didn't he get sent off v hkr?

He might have got a long suspension

I would take him to France, then leave him over there. Anyone wanting to play Hall in any position can not have watched Hull this year.

Same here also , Why not try something a bit different .

Cant believe still want Hall to play after his poor form , An excuse that cunningham and nicklas not being physically strong enough doesn't work me especially if thats why hall should play . Whiting and turner on the right side would do for me with washy / nicklas at 6.

Whiting
Tansey
Turner
Yeaman
Briscoe
Nicklas
Long
O'Meley
Houghton
Radford
Tickle
Burnett
Fitzgibbon

Subs
Moa
Dowes
Cunningham
McShane

Try Hall at 6.... Can't be any worse that Rich Horne, at least he's got pace!!

So all this time Agar has been slagged off for his treatment of Hall he was actually right then? What you are saying is that Hall is not good enough.

IMO playing someone like Kent is the centres would not possibly make much difference in defence but Hall is a genuine threat with ball in hand whereas with Kent we don't know.

I have mixed feelings about Hall as he keeps making the same mistakes over and over again and I don't know enough about Nicklas and Kent to give an opinion on if they are ready or not. What I do know is that the fans were creaming fro Brough to be given a chance then slagged him a year later. The same with Washbrook and the same with Hall and even Briscoe to a certain extent, I would like to try an avoid that with the next set of new players coming through. It's a fine line between throwing them in to give them their chance and it backfiring as they are clearly not ready, which happened with Reece.

Did you see Turner playing at centre again Leeds, turnstyle if ever I saw one. Hall offers a genine attacking threat with the ball. Sometimes you have to let players find their form, there is more to managing a players performance than simply dropping them.

Correct!!



This public stoning of Craig Hall is a bit OTT considering the whole team hasn't been performing well.... At least he isn't taking a MASSIVE wage and playing cr@p like some others!!

The only thing Agar has done wrong with Hall was continuing to play him at FB when it was clear he wasn't up to it, then continuing to play him in the threequarters this season when it's clear he isn't up to it.



In my opinion, he's not. He's had long enough and he's not a SL player. Hall will probably be a very good Championship centre - a standard most of us could only dream of playing at - but he's just not good enough for Super League.

He offers moments of inspiration, granted. These are however overshadowed by his equally regular errors/wrong options and appalling defence.

I'd switch hall and yeaman around as a last chance saloon for hall tp see if he's any better on the left. I've been a big fan of his but he's been rubbish recently

So turner doesnt deserve another chance at centre ? Hall has being persistently poor and costing us tries , As for this genuine attacking threat havent seen anything of it apart from the try against quins