Love singings like Tindall. Looked exciting when he broke through and could become a right player. I don't care at all about his top flight try scoring record when he's 21. I'd care if we was signing 29yo + wingers that are only going to go backwards. Watch us do that next! Decent teams are almost always teams that become a sum greater than their parts, rather than recruiting shed loads of mercenaries. We've followed that recruitment strategy for too long.

He punched a wall not his girlfriend. Went to court took it on the chin. He who is without sin, cast the first stone and no one did. He’s the sort of prop we could do with, I’m sure everything will be built into his contract. In TS we trust, AP does.

Have we even got a top super league player barring Clifford ?

We need to start adding quality not squad fillers

Sims,Vete, BT showed that Smith was not altogether successful in identifying so called first 13 players never mind potential and squad players.

Did alright with the rest of them though didn't he.

Those three were his main signings that year and were all flops

Please IGNORE him.

We don’t want the thread derailed again

The HDM put together a list of the signings the current Hull FC coach made while at his previous club. https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... th-7120662 Just for ease of reference… although i can’t immediately work out how the list is ordered, if it is at all. Not chronological or alphabetical, anyways. Ahhh… this undermines my efforts to be seen as staying on topic:

The HDM put together a list of the signings the current Hull FC coach made while at his previous club. https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... th-7120662 Just for ease of reference… although i can’t immediately work out how the list is ordered, if it is at all. Not chronological or alphabetical, anyways. Ahhh… this undermines my efforts to be seen as staying on topic:

Just forgetting Ethan Ryan, Rowan Milnes, Elliot Minchella, Matty Storton, Jordan Abdull, Matt Parcell, Luis Johnson, Ryan Hall, Sam Wood, PLT, SKD, Coote, George King

He's also gave a debut to Mikey Lewis.

Smith left you in a very good place with a competitive squad.

Not all coaches signings work out. Even Holbrook signed Joseph Paulo and Woolf signed Joel Thompson.

Not said we have but we need improvements in our squad players as much we need some top quality too. I think Tindall for example is an upgrade on Wynne without spending or tying up a lot of cap space.
As you stated before we have far too many mediocre players at least now under TS we seem to be improving the balance and overall quality of the playing squad.

Clifford wasn't a top SL player when he signed and now he's looking like one. Most of Saints stars have been good young players converted into quality SL players. The tactic of going out and blowing loads of money on established stars very rarely works in the short term, and can be disastrous in the long term. Identifying potential is the best way forward.