Read again he is the second one named

You need to read again or further down the article as it’s the quote directly from BH that doesn’t mention Taylor in the group of names which you’d have expected him to, not the just William Jackson as the reporter. .

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I think Hodgson is more referring to the overseas players in the pack. Which is why Taylor doesn't get a mention.

This is from the press release on Hulls site:

Hodgson added, “We have been working hard to add another big middle to our squad and the inclusion of Kane alongside the likes of Chris Satae, Ligi Sao and Manu Ma’u represents a strong contingent of overseas forwards who, alongside the rest of our pack, will help us lead the charge next season.”

Make no mistake Hodgson like any sane minded person, knows the value of a fully fit Scott Taylor, at his best he is one superb forward, hopefully Tag gets himself back to full fitness and complements a set of forwards which looks awesome on paper, (I know lol)

Taylor for the first few games last season looked pretty good. Didn't look great physically but he was doing a good job on the pitch still.

Captaincy will be another one to think about.

I think we will see a new captain

Captain Scott, (bra none)

Thanks that’s makes more sense as just thought it was very strange if BH had omitted Taylor from the group of forwards when naming the other big names.

Hopefully Taylor can get himself back into good shape as I have to agree with Bonaire when he said Taylor hasn’t looked that fit this past season. As much as he’s a big forward he did seem to be carrying a bit of extra weight. So hopefully a good break and pre season will help him and also have an relatively injury free run.

Its not the weight Chris it was the fat.
Taylor is a big guy who could easily put on a stone in muscle weight but he let his upper body fitness go.
I want to see the Scott Taylor who hit opponents coming out of their own 10 so hard he carried them into the in goal for a drop out under the posts.
Regretfully i dont think we will see that Scott Taylor again

Agree, if he’d of signed for my favourite nrl team, I’d be like, terrible signing he’s garbage! But this is super league, could go well, look at Pryor at leeds, probably one of the top performing props last couple of seasons, and he was, the very very average of the nrl