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| I’m not sure it’s just a case of ‘not good enough’.
Firstly, with Hill we would have had to sign him up for two years at a salary likely to be similar to his last contract. If we had ended up limping out of the playoffs again this year, we’d be on here ranting about not spending our money more appropriately.
Secondly, it was a question of removing the ‘old guard’. The coaching team had been tasked by the club with changing our playing style, leadership, and general attitude issues. I have no knowledge of the inner workings of the squad, but I’d be willing to bet that the coach told the club he needed to identify the root cause of why an expensively assembled team never managed to equate to the sum of its parts. I’m sure that a stale ‘old guard’ with a negative mindset wasn’t going to help change our usual damp squib grand final push.
And that brings me to Cooper. I really like Cooper and I think he’s a great prop. A great leader he clearly is not. It’s difficult when a club has established and popular parts of the woodwork (and in the leadership group) fighting against what the coach has been tasked with.
When you have two players so ingrained in the club, it’s hard to expect to revolutionise the mindset of the squad when said players push back. I guess we’ll know soon if Powell has what it takes to turn our now lesser quality squad into a team that is actually greater than the sum of its parts. He won’t have long to do it, mind!
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| Quote: easyWire "When a new coach recruits a pack like that he’s set a challenge to the likes of Philbin to step up and fight for their place. This is what would happen at Wigan, Saints and Leeds. It’s happening at Huddersfield next year for sure. Pryce and Lolohea have Connor to beat for a place in the team.'"
Think Connor may be out till August based on something I read (but can’t remember where!)
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| The local press on Humberside have reported that Hull expect him to be unavailable for 10 months.
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| Quote: Captain Hook "Think Connor may be out till August based on something I read (but can’t remember where!)'"
Wasn’t aware he was out for that long. That’s a bit of a gamble then for Hudds. He’s on a 3 year contract but only playing for two. And he’ll be 28/29 when he returns. If a medial ligament injury has affected his pace and footwork, they’ll be relying on his rugby brain to make a difference.
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| Strange signing if he really is out for that long. He's a good player though.
Regarding Hill and Cooper, if we were going in to next season with hill and Cooper as our starting props the club would be getting panned for having no recruitment policy having nt signed any replacements. Fact of the matter for both of them is that they're in the twilight of their career. They both still very good players but they're not the future.
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| Quote: easyWire "Wasn’t aware he was out for that long. That’s a bit of a gamble then for Hudds. He’s on a 3 year contract but only playing for two. And he’ll be 28/29 when he returns. If a medial ligament injury has affected his pace and footwork, they’ll be relying on his rugby brain to make a difference.'"
His pace? If he comes back even slower than he is now I'd back makiele to beat him in a footrace ![Laughing icon_lol.gif](images/smilies//icon_lol.gif)
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