Just been on his Instagram from after the game last week, responding to some of the Cas fans calling him fat.

Put it this way, I wish I was as fat as him!

The weight he is carrying is clearly in my opinion tactical and probably there to mask an issue he has elsewhere ie loss of pace etc.

I know the conditioning coach at KR and he is very very good as his job so I would guess that it is a conscious decision to bulk him.

To be fair at his age it’s not unusual for outside backs to go through this process. Jerry McGillvray at Hudds is the same. With a loss of pace they add the pounds to use them as an extra prop carrying the ball off the line.

Totally bizarre!


Tini seemed to stand with the ball in his hands for five minutes before deciding to run with it!


It was a bit of a stroll to the line, but he got there [ieventually![/i


I thought Lino was going to have to help him over the line in the end!

I think you are being very tactful, he's fat. I get the idea but I'd suggest it's gone way beyond tactical. Let's be right here, he was always big enough to do that roll without adding weight, can't go with you on this one.

He is well muscled. There is no fat on him at all.
That might affect him speed wise but he isn't fat.

I'd still have him here.

If Ryan Hall is fat what does that make half of our fan base

I don't like agreeing with Cas fans, but he's fat.

A lot fatter in my case



All things are relative, compared to your average civilian he's not fat I'll agree but for a RL player, especially a back, he is IMO.

Not on the photo I've seen

Is that the one on Grinder, I don't think that's him

I remember Justin Carney in his Cas days getting a load of slaver from the North Stand a few years ago for being fat.

It was a red hot day and I remember it because it was the first time my sister in law from Ireland had ever been to a rugby match of any code.

Carney was giving it back to the North Stand holding his belly and rubbing it.

After the game my sister in law who was by now amazed at what she had seen saw him after the game. He has his shirt off and she got a picture with him and again hardly an ounce of fat on him.

He did have a pronounced gut but that was just his build in fact he had an 8 pack on his gut.

Hall is similar looking at his Instagram account very muscled. He’s even taking the mick out of being called fat eating a pizza in the changing room after the match with his shirt off.

I need to stop looking at it now though or else he will think I’m stalking him.

Just got round to watching this,...
Looked even slower on TV......


Made I larf.

Probably one of the strangest try I've ever seen in 65 years.