I'll certainly try.



Something which Tony does on the vast majority of occasions. And it's a fairly minor part of the game anyway. It's not often that you'll get more than two or three a game going to the fullback and if he deals with 90% (I'd be alright with less, TBH, if they don't cost us) that's fine with me. As I've said plenty of times, it's an area he could be stronger in, but it's nowhere near the problem it's made out to be.



All of those things you mention are fairly minor parts of the game (except clearing the goal line, but I suspect you mean that differently to how I'd view it, as Briscoe certainly isn't good in that area AFAIC). Not the attributes that should be looked for as the most important things for a fullback, yet they remain so in this country. And we wonder why we get our s handed to us every time we come up against the Aussies, who play fullbacks who have a little more to their game. Maybe we could learn something from that.



But he played there for NZ a couple of times. He [imust[/i be a hooker.

(He can pass, but it's short, defence-splitting passes in a tight space that he's good at rather then long, fast, flat, accurate passes, repeatedly, from dummy half, where he's not good at all.)



Coming up with a decent counter argument should be easy then.

Once you have lived in the real world I will let you come back and reconsider superiority young man

I can actualy picture some of them now

If you're as old as you sound, by the time I've lived in the real world will you still be here?

Put your sock away man!!

Tony went to FB when Briscoe was out injured. Nothing to do with him 'wanting' the position or Briscoe being moved aside to make way. He kept Briscoe out because his form there was very good - something conveniently forgotten nowadays.

If reports are true, paying Briscoe 'a bit more money' would have broken the pay structure in place at the time.

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Tony didnt have the right to pick and choose were he played, It was so simple, Briscoe was our first choice fullback, Motu came in when he was injured and played better for the back end of the 06 season in our grand final run in so when Briscoe came back he was second choice fullback and had to play in the centres and eventually cover the wing when Tingha left the club, then the next season we had Tony contracted and Briscoe off contract, we offered Briscoe a deal but he wanted a deal that was more then he was worth (at the time) and was offered this at Rovers, he left and become a much better player and fair play to him.

In hindsight it was a bad decision, but to say that Briscoe was released becuase Motu wanted to play fullback is stupid, he earned it at the time.

Very sad news if that's the end of his career at Hull. I know he's been injury blighted for a while, but it's not a nice way to end your career.

Best of luck Motu.

Agree, never shirked anything and always gave everything good clubman and never forget the try in Cardiff

i think his chances of a new contract are very slim.i still believe that we will bring in someone else,as i can't see us just going with jordan tansey at fb with horney covering if needed.tansey as i have said before is a replacement for byrne,a utility back,and therefore can see a new signing coming in at full back.

Probably worthy of its own thread but we seem to have had a lot of people retiring permanently from the game (or semi-permanently like Scott Logan) over recent years. We probably need a witch doctor to come and purge the KC of its bad karma. Anyone know one?