He is. And looking at the first team squad, after Houghton there's only Jordan Johnstone who's a recognised hooker. One of the halves could play there, but even the likes of Dean Hadley who's played there a little before have left the club. Downside of having such a quality first option is that your backups end up moving on.

Thomas Doyle and Jordan Lilley to share hooking role. Liam Harris to come in on dual reg?

I wouldnt have thought kear will want lilley in there.
And Harris is.currently injured so thats a non starter.

Probably Doyley for.an hour then give young Berry the last 20

I think Swift will be ahead of Faraimo in the pecking order. Im not sure we would have re-signed him if we knew we were getting Fonua. Even as a Hull fan it's tough to know what the first choice 13 is going to be and the allocation of squad numbers makes it even harder to second guess what Radford is thinking. Its fair to say there will be some very handy players not making out 17 though.

4 from Hull in the squad for Sunday's Friendly. Connor Wynne, who I assume will play fullback in Pickersgill's absence. Kieran Buchanan who you would think might play in the centre spot Rhys Evans vacated. Along with Charlie Graham and Charlie Patterson-Lund, who I confess I know jack sh** about.

(Edit: Graham is apparently a winger, Patterson-Lund is a back rower)

We had them at Doncaster, Wynne is a good full back . Buchanan is a decent player. Interesting to see how they go in the Championship.

Well Cameron Scott & Lewis Bienek have just joined Leigh on loan, so doesn't look like we're getting those two.

So much for all the 'courting' that went into getting the dual-reg deal done! They immediately loan out better players to another team in our league

Thanks Radders

Seriously what is the point? Go though all the trouble of setting up the dual reg only for Leigh to get their pick of the players and we get the untried kids? What a joke.

I wouldn’t panic too much yet, it is only a friendly after all. I think there’s an argument that we should be getting our own lads ready for the season and not using dual reg in friendlies unless these lads are likely to be staying with us a while.

Be interesting to see how they go

From a Doncaster fan welcome to the world of D-Reg with Hull.

We are likely to get loan players from Leeds and they are DR with Fev so it’s no different

Clearly this weekend Radford has got his first team squad and is giving them all an equal shot before week 1. He has picked a squad of 23 but can only pick 17 so potentially there are 6 first team squad players we may get a go at. Seems like the agreement is working as expected this weekend. We get some youngsters who get a game and we get a look at them and pad out our light squad to avoid having to pick our players 3 times in Jan before the season starts and avoid the tired effect JK said affected us early last year due to the number of friendlies we played with the YC

Leigh will be paying the wages, maybe Bradford couldn't afford to fo this, for DR I dont think you pay anything towards the players wages.

Of all the DR players Wynne is the stand out, has played a few games in SL and not looked out of place. Very quick and deceptively strong.

Not sure why you think he can he only use 17? It'll be a 'friendly' surely and he can use 30 if he really wants to.