Why does he always seem to think he needs to turn into the tackle? He hardly ever gets an offload away so I don't see the point in it.

As soon as he puts his back towards the defence, he gains no further metres due to not having any leg drive.

Couldnt disagree more. Radders is our only forward who does have an offload. The leeds game the other week shows this. His issue is that named at 13 people expect him to be a ball handling loose forward. He plays as a prop and for me makes better yards than most of our pack as well as defensively been one of the only players we have that consistently wins the collision. If we had support his turning in the tackle may lead to more 2nd phase rugby too but no one is bothered.

I agree about the 2nd phase rugby but to say that he does have an offload is abit too far for me. This season he has only managed to make 15 offloads all season. Danny tickle is our highest offloader with 34 and our only player in the top 25 offloads. So he hardly offloads and when he or any of our other players do, we never take advantage of this and as I said before turning in the tackle is a bad option for me.

Tickle has also played twice as much game time than Radford. Tickle misses far more tackles per minute on the pitch and also gives far more penalties away. His attitude also stinks. Dont understand still 2 or 3 years down the line why Radford has the knockers that he does and Tickle doesnt.

Putting Tickle to one side, i dont think Radford will be with us next year but i wouldnt be disappointed if he was.

I'll leave the turning in the tackle business, it's been done to death. However:



No he doesn't. That's one of his major problems. He used to. He used to even when he was playing for much longer. Now, he doesn't often. If at all. He frequently ends up on the wrong side through both not being in a good position prior to impact and not making good enough contact. That means he's often struggling to get properly set at marker. And, before you come back and say that that can't be the case as he's our top tackler from marker, why do you think he is put in a position to make so many marker tackles? It's obviously not because he's like Calderwood and can chase down the ball even if it passes through two or three pairs of hands. So what is it? I'd suggest that it's as a direct result of him not winning the collision very often and being caught on the wrong side. That means teams are more likely to scoot after Radford's been involved in the tackle, with the chance to gain easy ground and Radford, therefore, has more chance to make marker tackles.

Most people are placing Whiting at loose man, why the hell doesnt Agar do this? the team he is fielding at the mo clearly arent winning games, switch players into different positions in training, see what they can do in them positions, something needs to be done to get the results, try something different Mr. Agar.

Most of his offloads in that game came as a result of him being driven back towards his own line and out of desperation.

As for winning the collision, really Dave? He just turns around and tries to fall over, he seems to get dominated nearly all the time. He does try and gain quick ptb's I will grant him that but he makes seldom few yards.

[url=http://www.sporthull.co.uk/rugby_league/hull_fc/news/displayarticle.php?ID=13336Hall at fullback tomorrow?[/url

That would be just about right.

Outstanding in the centre at Widnes, so it makes perfect sense to bring him back and play him full-back.

Especially when someone who's been playing fullback in the NRL this season has arrived in the same week.

Seriously, if Hall starts at fullback with Tansey either in the centres or on the bench, any lingering doubts that Agar doesn't know what he's doing with team selections must be banished.

Sounds like he was talking about what had alread happened rather than what will be happening tomorrow. Maybe Tansey will play off the bench with him only just arriving and not having played for a few weeks?

At least Agar spoke positively about Hall which is good to hear, not that Agar will be praised for that because according to rumours he hates him and odes not want him around!

Lets hope its just bollox.

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