Berrigan is to good a player to be isolated in the centres. He needs to be at the thick of the action for whatever duration he is on the pitch. If we have the team that will spray the ball about then i agree with your call. We all saw with Yeaman what you can get when your centre gets plenty of ball.

Passes into touch?

Houghton has played well when coming on to exploit tiring defences.

He plays well whenever he comes on, he's a good player and should be the 1st team hooker for many years to come.

I'm still not convinced TBH. He skoots well but thats about it IMO.

His passing from Dummy half is getting better, in fact it looks faster than Berrigans. He is also a very good defender. What more do you want?

although i see him at 6 next year...

I am very happy with the squad, keep Whiting, Lee and Moa (or the new kid) and we will have a squad to compete again.

If we sign Turner and Rooney (as a back up) then thats even better news.

Tansey
Calderwood
Briscoe
Yeaman
Raynor
Horne
Long
Dowes
Lee
O Meley
Tickle
Fitzgibbon
Berrigan

Cusack
Manu
Hame
Houghton
Whiting
Rooney
Hall
Moa/new prop
Burnett
Turner
Washbrook

24 first team players, might have missed someone?

A young players to be added Jack Briscoe or Liam Kent maybe?

No he isn't.

Ok if you say so he is that bad last season he missed 1/30, this season he misses 1/23.

I wish some of the other players where as bad as him.

I'd say he is. There is a lot of rubbish talked about people constantly trampling over him and I always look for it but it happens rarely tbh. He does get dominated sometimes but he is still a young kid, Hull have to kepp him and try and develop the skills he already has. I sincerely hope the rumour about him going out on loan next season isn't true.

Personally I'm not bothered as long as he tackles them, gets them down and doesnt give away a penalty.

I haven't watched him closely this year - but last year I think it was weeks before he missed any tackles at all. Checking back - he made 698 tackles all season and missed 23 in 24 appearances.

Stats aren't everything but I think they support him being pretty good defensively.

For interest, in 2006 Richard Swain made 721 tackles and missed 27 in 20 appearances.

That should be the minimum required. Whilst he does speed us up in attack when he comes on we are also weaker down the middle in defence. He is an impact hooker IMO, certainly at this stage in his developement anyway.