Trademark spin article from GH's very own batman at the YEP



Rising star Hood hasn't been anywhere near a first team appearance this season because he stood up to a first team bully who has a reputation for picking on young academy kids or anyone smaller than himself.

Hood has been on the outer ever since he decked that first team bully with just the one punch at the post Grand Final party at Headingley last October.

FFS, Name names, or at least drop a decent hint.

How obvious do you prefer the hint to be?

That obvious, eh?

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What's all this revisionist nonsense about Hoods performances last year? He scored a couple of good opportunist tries in TV games, however I saw nothing to suggest his dummy half work was anywhere near the standard required.

On the contrary, his distribution was woeful.

Wigan - McIlorum & Tomkins
Huddersfield - Lunt & Robinson/Wood
Warrington - Monaghan & Higham
Catalans - Henderson & Pelissier
Hull KR - Hodgson & Withers
Saints - Roby & Howarth
Hull FC - Houghton & Heremaia
Wakefield - Aiton & Wildie
Bradford - L'Estrange & Diskin
Widnes - Clarke & White
Cas - Clark & Milner
Salford - Godwin & Foran
London - Randall & Fisher

Not sure where Hood would fit in at any of those clubs really. They've all got an established first choice hooker that Hood wouldn't displace.

Ryan Bailey is a karmicheal Hunt.

The sooner that piece of sh*t is out of the club, the better. Gutted he's signed a new deal.

This of course is pretty irrelevant without understanding how many have been injured for periods, the fact that Howarth was signed after the season had started, and Wood wasn't at Huddersfield, and Fisher had to come out of retirement to help London.

You are talking about a highly rated player not just by the Leeds club but others.

Leeds should have been the ones pushing is availability out there, not the other way round. Look how many Wire players have been out this year.

It's not irrelevant because it shows an established first choice hooker at each SL club that is easily a better choice than an untried and untested Hood.
It also shows most of the SL clubs 2nd choice hookers to be a better choice than an untried and untested Hood.
Is a short term loan where he might play only a couple of games particularly better than playing every week at Hunslet?
I'd say a hooker needs a long term loan to help their development.

From that list (plus of course clubs have the option of using other players in that role) I'd say only Wakefield, Salford or London would have even been a possibility for a long term loan.

All three options better than playing at Hunslet, so what are you arguing over?

Funny how you quote the two Widnes hookers, yet That partnership was broken up by a loanee last year. Plenty of opportunity's for super league loans.

Well we've narrowed the entire league down to 3 clubs just from looking at their squads. Were any of those clubs in the market for a hooker? Considering 2 of them have let a hooker go on loan to another club this season you'd have to assume hooker isn't a priority for them. What makes you think the club have been lax in terms of Hood's development given the lack of SL opportunities for him?


And Widnes might be happy to take that player on loan again. Or they might not. A tad irrelevant when the player in discussion is Hood and not McShane.
Are there? How many hookers with only 5 SL appearances have been loaned to other SL clubs?

I must have missed the queue of SL clubs lining up to sign Hood on the back of his performances at Hunslet this year. Absolute rubbish suggesting Leeds wouldn't have let him do the same as McShane this year.

The gnashing of teeth about Hood strikes me as another example of people getting upset because a player they marked for greatness simply isn't as good as they thought they'd be. Been there, bought the t-shirt.