Quote: Dave K. "Are people not counting Briscoe as a winger, he has played there his full SL career and plays there for his country, I think of him as a winger now.
If Calderwood goes Hull will bring in a winger, Meli is a much better winger than Calderwood, he would suit our style more and he has more power.
Not sure about signing Meli though, would be expensive and would see us sign another overseas player which I dont like, much rather us look to sign a young English winger.'"
The thing that concerns me about Meli is that we're building a squad weighted at either young (Tansey, Briscoe, Hall, Houghton, Turner, Burnett) or over 30 (Meli, Long, Fitz, Manu, Radders, Berrigan, Ogre?) and not enough players in their prime, 25-30 (Tickle, Lauaki probably being the exceptions. I'd add Horne, Washy and Dowes here but think they peaked 4 years ago
). Point being that once the old guard retires in 1-2 years, we're left with major squad rebuilding to do as we're left with players who are currently young prospects. We're then into a short termist buying in of experience abd leadership as we were this time last year.