You realise I haven't said Turgut is better than Thompson, don't you?

Let's never play a young player every again as us fans haven't seen them play then. If fans were suggesting Turgut replace Manu then. Would understand, but he would be replacing a player who has been average for 18 months, was our worst forward against Wakey and outperformed in friendlies by Turgut.

Right this has been done to death, I'm going to put £5 on Thompson for MOTM

Nobody has, have they?

Miniority , what 2 or 3 posters, what youll probably find is that most posters dont have an opinion on turgut because havnt seen enough of him, unlike yourself who must be part of the hull fc performance team. Carry on like what Dave, disagreeing with you, makes me laugh when im accused of not been able to have a debate! Just admit it, you havnt got a clue if Turgut will make it as a first teamer, like the rest of us, we see potential and hope he really does make it, but like many that have come before, it just doesnt happen for whatever reason.

Yes , sorry, wasnt really directed at you

Not if you include missed tackles

Don't mind the disagreeing, but you aren't getting anyone point, nobody is saying that Turgut will make it or he is better than Thompson, which you keep saying, but the fact is Thompson has been poor and Turgut has impressed in training and pre season and maybe could take his place and it would not be as bad a decision as you made out.

And Thompson hasnt been as poor as you make out. I get the point perfectly , just think its a stupid point on what anyone as seen of Turgut so far

At this stage of the season I would go with Thompson, does he miss some tackles, yes, did he make a massive chunk more tackles than our outgoing marquee player, yes, does he make a fair few tackle busts, yes, precisely two less than our outgoing marquee player, was he a utility back when he came to the club, yes, is he effectively now used down the middle as an extra prop cum 2nd rower, yes.
Does he get far more flak than is justified, yes.
Will Turgut usurp him this season or further down the line and carry on his progression , no bleeding idea but right now Thompson is a bit more than just a "fag paper" in front of him IMHO.
All that said it matters not, if Radford picks Turgut then it'll be because of a specific reason, we can then only hope that Turgut gets on with that role, does it effectively and does himself justice with respect to the potential that has being spoken about him.

Knowing the queues we normally get at the South and East stand entrances, I think I might just get in at 7.30 tonight.

Thursday night, 13,000 !!! Wind and rain, people turning up last minute,

I fear a scanner meltdown. lol

bloomin cold, set of at bit earlier, COYH

Summer Rugby eh! the Full Backs are going to be in for a tough night with the bombs

Stupid penalties, Taylor's especially and now they're level.

Danny Houghton tackle on Moa, get in