Chris Satae has been affected/infected by the malaise permeating the club; in a good side it is virtually certain that he would return to his previous form, and as such he would be an excellent signing for a team that can coach, enthuse, and use him properly.

At the moment, Hull FC seemingly can do none of those things; although that is in no way a criticism of Tony Smith, who is having to deal with the mother of all poisoned chalices.

For Satae to be most effective he needs to be running onto the ball, whereas this season (like all of our forwards) he gets the pass flat footed and standing still.

Sure it’s some kind of bizarre “mental muscle memory” thing, but we are back at the pit of the Lee Radford curve, where we have no dummy runners, nobody running angles, and nobody taking the ball up with any kind of intent or aggression. Watching Halifax v Bradford on Viaplay last night, the effort and application from both sets of forwards on a difficult, rainy night highlighted just how disgracefully poor the “efforts” of Hull’s forwards are.

I’m not suggesting those Championship players are better, just that they show desire, hunger, and a willingness to work that shames the Hull FC team at present - not that it appears they have any shame. Or pride. Or professionalism.

Could be nothing...but the club have just updated their Facebook cover photo from a group shot that includes Satae to a shot of the MKM (grabs tin foil hat)

Who else was in the group shot?

Be just about right to swap him for Philbin who has just picked up a 2 game ban.

Messaged Dan from HDM about Philbin. It's a complete non starter for Wire.

It was a nice rumour for the last week, 5 days.

Don't believe everything someone on the Internet tells you

I would have been amazed, why would he leave Warrington to come to Hull, only way we could sign someone of his caliber would be if he wasn't getting gametime, they didn't want him or we offer him a big pay increase.

Going to have to be really smart with recruitment

Taylor, Lane and half a Fash

Nah, we’ll probably do a swap deal for Cooper.

He's still in the squad, but you can fly to Perpignan from LeedsBradford now so maybe we are dropping him off on the way