My man. We're on the same page bro.

What are you talking about?

McDermott picked Smith in 14 games whereas Sinfield has only picked him in 1 game out of 6. He has played more minutes this year than Walters, Oledski, Mullally, Garbutt, Dwyer, Keinhorst and Peteru and has developed very well under McDermott this year.

Ormandroyd was selected for 8 matches including the first run of games including the WCC match down under. However he did not grab his chance the way Oledski did and showed too many mistakes in defense. Lilley unfortunately has never played well enough to secure regular spot and Sinfield having tried him for one game has not selected him again.

I am not saying that BMcD did not make errors or that I agreed with everything he did but the injury crisis for the first half of the year was a serious one and having no big men on top of not having replaced McGuire and Sinfield left the team totally unbalance and reliant on experienced youngsters.

Are you suggesting our defense has improved since we changed coach?

Haven't had a great season

PS, they're both in Super League unless one of them gets relegated, not that that's relevant as we're talking about Hull.

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so why not replace galloway? why not get a prop in earlier? we obviously had cap space.

Even with our leaky defence ???

Quite. You had better ask GH as he was in charge of recruitment and the purse strings. I have no idea what conversations they had an neither have you.

I have always blamed Hetherington but only an idiot would absolve macdermott too.

And only an idiot would blame the coach for events outside his control. The lack of any improvement since the new coaches took over, despite having the benefit of new short term signings and players returning from injury, should have given you a clue

I would say it has improved. we took 3 points more than the previous God knows how many SL games. much more improvement needed I agree but nice to see you still try not to criticise macdermott

But had the coach not destroyed the youth set up during his tenure, he might well have had answers to his problems. Hetherington is not blameless, in the fact this went over his head, but McDermott clearly ruined the ongoing developments of players and the youth set up. Something seen by quite a few at the start, who stated at the time what would happen.

We also had a poor League status!