He needs to announce the signing of Paul Gallen and Anthony Whatmough

Who'd have thought they'd want to let Smith go? They need the cash, it'd be unlikely but its worth a shout. As for Mika I couldn't care less if he was at Wigan, Wire or Huddersfield he's garbage. I don't care if we sign someone from a team below us, there's plenty of players I'd sign from below us in the team. Chase, Hock, Kirmond, Clark (if we needed him). We signed Paea from KR and he's one of the best props in the league.
If Gentle is to go, personally I'd give him until next year. But I'd be asking Tony Smith and Warrington what it would take for him to leave Wire. We need to be asking these sort of questions.

Sandow signing seems strange after shelling out for Chase & Smith !. Maybe they could beef him up again to play prop.

Hock is on a 4 year deal, prob very heavy loaded in last year to secure his services

does anyone else think our recruitment is poor mainly because of where hull is located?

before the gold rush in the nrl we seemed to sign good overseas players, j smith, swain, best, berrigan but we always struggle to attract british players as they all like to be based around the west Yorkshire/Lancashire area

yeah you could be on to something there, many of the decent players that come from lancashire that play for west yorkshire clubs they can stay put and commute but hull is just to far to travel, i defo think youth investment is the way forward we have 5 out of 14 top conference league so hull is full of RL talent. i also think fc home games should be back to sundays as the team would be not allowed to go on the lash fri/sat were as fri night games there straight out afterwards and on sat. healthier bodies healthier minds = top RL stars. imo.

It's always been a problem, players from west of the pennines in particular. Relocating is never popular, with contracts being relatively short, so if they want to change clubs, travelling is a more attractive proposition.

Of course it is.

Sandow!

I disagree, we have let a few player go and lets look at it.

Happy,
Tickle - been bad for half a season, crash ball lets drop it.
Lynch - been a good grafter but we have a team full and not anywhere near the year before.

Sad
O'meley - yes was good and was our forward to go forward.
Briscoe - Early in the year was rubbish got better at the end of the year we will miss him.

I saw loads of forum posts about having no grunt players in the forwards who could bend the line, what do Hull do sigh two players who can do that and we start complaining, yes Feka was really crap at Salford but he is in good shape and knows it is his last chance to do it in SL.

We don't know if Gentle is leaving but if as posted Radford has been in charge of our defence this season then he as done a bloody good job because that as been our only saving grace this season.

What we do need the is someone who can sort out attack out, now I don't know if it will work but again loads of posts of how we have never been great at attacking since Cooke left us, assistant coach in charge of our attacking would do for me. I will never agree with how he left us and how he gloated when he first went to rovers but I my respect for him as grown recently because of his HDM write ups he has spoken a lot of sense and he can see what is wrong.

I hope like most of us will do is maybe calm down a little, Hudds game nearly made me cry, I was devastated and would have sacked Gentle on the night had I been AP but I hope it is just HDM jumping the gun again with Gentle sacking because we need to look at everything in the cold light of day, and get to the bottom of what is wrong once and for all.

AP came out and apologized to us all, that is good enough for me and I will wait and see what he decides now is the best for the club.

He's better than any half on our books, by a distance.

I believe it's the attitude if the players at our club that needs changing not the full team. Iv never seen so much over inflated egos on a pitch before. Let's face it the only players in the FC team that has a realistic chance of knocking on the international door at the minute are lineham shaul and crooks. That's got to say something to the highly paid pros in our side. They could learn a thing or two from the youth set up.