The club obviously don't rate Whiting that highly, 1 year deal. There are plenty of supporters that don't frequent these forums that see Whitings failings, remember, RLFans is not representative of all FC fans, just a small minority.

TBF Whiting will always be just a squad player, but Hodgson has a massive future ahead of him as a hooker. You need to look at the bigger picture.

Yup, and Berrigan goes relatively soon.

Not entirely convinced of that from what I've seen. There again, I don't wear red & white tinted glasses.

Berro has another year to do and then an option year which is on the club! Speak to him or listen to him on the Radio and he wants to stay as long as his body will hold out! Houghton wants to stay at the club, other wise he would have gone to the dobbins when they tapped him up, twice, So you think that with sparce cover in the backs and particulaly at half back we should keep 3 hookers?

respect your view but on this occassion don't agree with it!

There's a surprise.





The rest of your post is just the usual tribal, chest beating nonsense

Berrigan isn't worth another year after this, his body is struggling and he's hardly been the model professional we all expected. Hodgson is 19, he isn't even in the dawn of his career yet.

No doubt we'll be throwing money at an ageing aussie hooker in two years time, just as Hodgson celebrates his 21st with some silverware.

That is key.

His body has had a battering over the years and while there is no doubting he has been a true great in the aussie game he is clearly struggling over here and has had two major injuries in the two seasons he's been here.

That kind tells you something.

I could understand all the gloating from KR fans if it was Houghton who they'd got.
Hodgson is a decent player who could become even better, but then again he may not.
Good luck to him, but we can't keep everyone.

What a bizarre statement. Even if you vehemently abhor the fact that Hodgson has left the club WTF has that got to do with Whiting ? You think that we should have retained a reserve team hooker - a position where we have 2 other players + emergency cover - at the expense of signing a player next year who can cover 3 or 4 positions in the team some of them in the back line ? It's been bad enough with injuries in the past few years and you think a third or 4th choice hooker should have priority over an established utility player ? On that basis you'd be hoping we only had injuries to hookers next year.

Totally agree

Well said !

If Josh had left for any other club it would be a simple case of we have plenty of hookers and so he had to leave to further his career.
Dont listen to these Rovers fans bigging him up to be the next Danny Buderus just because he has signed for them.

What did you expect them to say "We have been screaming out for a world class Hooker all season and all Morgan brings us is FC's 4 choice.That Morgan gets worse!" I dont think so !!!

Having watched a lot of reserve rugby this season I liked the look of Josh but he was no better than Tommy or Danny and so felt he had to look elsewhere.