Is Hull not a hot bead for RL, i thought it was, but looking at the team sheet there dose not seem to be a lot of Hull born players in the first 17

thats another thread in its own right - adam pearson is addressing this plus one or two other 'slight problems' that developed under the previous regime

fare enough, i was just looking through the lists

Eleven Hull born players in that list and another three how came through our ranks. Albeit four of the Hull born players have just been promoted to the first team, but it's still early days with our new board in charge.
This is one of many things that Pearson is planning on changing. He's adamant to bring through more youth/Hull born lads.

Think most of the savvy chairmen are realising now that the future is definitely in home grown talent. Fair play to Pearson at Hull for getting to work on sorting it out so quickly.

What a Richard you are.

Hull FC's confirmed sqaud numbers

1/ Shannon McDonnell
2/ Jason Crookes
3/ Joe Arundel
4/ Kirk Yeaman
5/ Tom Briscoe
6/ Daniel Holdsworth
7/ Brett Seymour
8/ Mark O’Meley
9/ Danny Houghton
10/ Andy Lynch
11/ Gareth Ellis
12/ Danny Tickle
13/ Joe Westerman
14/ Richard Whiting
15/ Ben Galea
16/ Richard Horne
17/ Liam Watts
18/ THE 18TH MAN
19/ Jay Pitts
20/ Paul Johnson
21/ Chris Green
22/ Josh Bowden
23/ Ben Crooks
24/ Liam Kent
25/ Tom Lineham
26/ Danny Nicklas
27/ Jack Briscoe
28/ James Cunningham
29/ Jamie Shaul
30/ Dean Hadley
31/ Alex Starling
32/ Ryan Wilson
33/ Aaron Heremaia

Looks very competitive. Good start and a clean bill of health and you'll be up there.

Bradford 2013 squad list;

1 Brett Kearney
2 Adrian Purtell
3 Keith Lulia
4 Matty Blythe
5 Elliot Kear
6 Jarrod Sammut
7 Luke Gale
8 Nick Scruton
9 Heath L’Estrange
10 Manase Manuokafoa
11 John Bateman
12 Elliott Whitehead
13 Jamie Langley
14 Matt Diskin
15 Chev Walker
16 Tom Olbison
17 Jamie Foster
18 Michael Platt
19 Danny Addy
20 Adam O’Brien
21 James Donaldson
22 Jobe Murphy
23 Ben Evans
24 Oliver Roberts
25 Sam Wood
26 Curtis Naughton.


11 Home grown players and a shortage of props, langley down as 13 will probably be playing in the front row. Not too bad considering, if we stay relatively fit we'll compete at least, which given whats happened I'll take every day. Just glad I still have a club, being competitive would be a bonus. Need to add a couple of props and hope Purtell is ok to resume playing.

Out of interest, how do you see your back row lining up if Langley is played up front?

I think Donaldson will get a lot of game time. He seemed quite well thought of before the injury he had. I think Bateman will play LF with Whitehead and Donaldson in the second row. Ben Evans also had a decent series for Wales playing right second row, not sure he'll dislodge the above, but he will do a job if called upon.

Well I would play Whitehead, Bateman and Addy, with Addy at 13. I think Bateman is more dangerous running wide in the 2nd row inside Lulia. Olibison and Walker will also get plenty of time in the 2nd row and will probably be ahead of Addy in Cummins thinking (but I really rate Addy and would like to see him get a run at 13). Donaldson is coming back from injury and could easily get into the starting backrow, he was making a first team spot his before his last injury, but it will probably depend how he comes through preseason and if he can stay injury free.

Lots of home grown talent in the backrow to build a team around, but it feels very inexperienced to me and we'll miss Elima a lot. Whichever way FC goes there will be a lot of rotation in the backrow I think.

1.Greg Eden
2.Craig Hall
3.Kris Welham
4. Sean Gleeson
5.Dave Hodgson
6.Travis Burns
7. Michael Dobson
8.Evarn Tuimavave
9.Josh Hodgson
10.Ryan O'Hara
11.Con Mika
12.Cory Paterson
13.Rhys Lovegrove
14.Lincoln Withers
15.Graham Horne
16.Adam Walker
17.Sam Latus
18.Liam Salter
19.Omari Caro
20.Jordan Cox
21.Keal Carlile
22.Rich Beaumont
23.Mickey Paea
24.James Green
25. George Griffin
26.Alex brown
27.Chris Heil
28.Tyler Hepi
29.Aaron Ollet
30.Matty Beharell
31. Sonny Esslemont

Better that way than experienced with no local talent coming through. That back row could be formidable with a season under their belt

Tigers squad for 2013:- www.castigers.com/article.php?id=2690

Tigers squad for 2013:- www.castigers.com/article.php?id=2690