He's expecting Shaul to return too. So Miller at 7, who will partner him?

horne, but id like to see rankin there myself

Looks like Horne v's Rankin for the stand off spot.

I'd prefer Rankin simply because I want to see those two playing together. But I suspect it will be Horne too with Azza back as interchange hooker.

Cracking news. Hope it's the start of a run of games.

would be good to see them both play and given a good run out, both young have pace and bring a bit of x factor to the game,

I disagree. We've been hearing for years how well the squad or individual players have performed in training, only for them to come up short far too frequently on match days. Yeaman is one of the biggest culprits for me - he seems to be undroppable, no matter now poorly he performs. Radford has assured us that no one's place is safe unless they're performing well. If Yeaman retains his place, I think we can safely disregard that rhetoric and assume it's business as usual.

I think he will go for Horne for experience as a 1, 6 & 7 of Shaul, Rankin and Miller is very inexperienced.



TBH I could live with Horne as long as Miller gets his chance and Heremia plays hooker.



The only think I would be worried about would be long range kicking, which from what I have seem Rankin seems to be the best we have.

Not sure I agree, this season Yeaman has been better than Crooks, Arundel hasn't really had a chance, so on seasons form you would have to go with Yeaman and Arundel.

slighty ot, but have been really impressed with thompson, when we get all our forwards back does anyone see him as an option at centre? kid runs his weight is no slowcoach and looks to have good tackling skills, just a thought,

Personally, I'd go with Miller and Rankin in the halves with Horne and Arundel in the centres. To my mind, that's what we should be using Horne for now - to cover for injuries/poor form across the back line.

Quote Rock God X="Rock God X"I disagree. We've been hearing for years how well the squad or individual players have performed in training, only for them to come up short far too frequently on match days. Yeaman is one of the biggest culprits for me - he seems to be undroppable, no matter now poorly he performs. Radford has assured us that no one's place is safe unless they're performing well. If Yeaman retains his place, I think we can safely disregard that rhetoric and assume it's business as usual.'" He got dropped by Gentle last season www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Dropped- ... story.html

Quote Rock God X="Rock God X"I disagree. We've been hearing for years how well the squad or individual players have performed in training, only for them to come up short far too frequently on match days. Yeaman is one of the biggest culprits for me - he seems to be undroppable, no matter now poorly he performs. Radford has assured us that no one's place is safe unless they're performing well. If Yeaman retains his place, I think we can safely disregard that rhetoric and assume it's business as usual.'" He got dropped by Gentle last season www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Dropped- ... story.html

But is it right to reward Yeamo for his poor performance by keeping him in the team rather than give Crooks another chance?



Glad I'm not the coach!

Quote hullbg="hullbg"He got dropped by Gentle last season www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Dropped- ... story.html'" For the first time in his career, according to the article. And wasn't he back in the game after? Either way, it's much rarer for him to be dropped than it is for him to suffer a period of poor or indifferent form.

Quote hullbg="hullbg"He got dropped by Gentle last season www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Dropped- ... story.html'" For the first time in his career, according to the article. And wasn't he back in the game after? Either way, it's much rarer for him to be dropped than it is for him to suffer a period of poor or indifferent form.

Quote hullbg="hullbg"He got dropped by Gentle last season www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Dropped- ... story.html'" Was thinking of that earlier actually but mostly about the rumours that were around afterwards of how the players responded to that dropping.

Quote hullbg="hullbg"He got dropped by Gentle last season www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Dropped- ... story.html'" Was thinking of that earlier actually but mostly about the rumours that were around afterwards of how the players responded to that dropping.

It depends how you view Yeamans past performances. He's a player, along with a few others, who people love to criticise.

Defensively he's been good and that's what we need at the moment.

Last weeks performance couldn't have been much worse, attacking wise, but it certainly wasn't the norm.

I guess if you dropped him you would never pick him again.

Agree. No player should be exempt from a trip to Doncaster to play for a week.

Whilst of course we also need defensive stability, the big fat zero on the scoreboard on Sunday (as well as the overall performance) suggests that our attack is currently the more pressing need.

Before the Widnes game, our attack was much improved, our defence somewhat disappointing.

So do you now suggest we should focus on attack?



We had enough clear cut opportunities to score 20+ points, so I don't think we need to worry too much at this stage.

Last season those chances simply weren't being created often enough.

I think that now we're a few games into the season, hindsight shows that we racked up 2 good scores against 2 of the 3 worst defences in the league. Apart from that, only a last minute consolation try has taken us above 16 points in any of the other 4 games. Our defence is about on par with our position in the table (actually the 8th best, and we've played 2 of the 3 best attacking sides so far).



So yes, I do think our attack is currently more of a problem than our defence (yet again).

It's all well and good creating opportunities but we need to put points on the board in those situations. It's not the first game this season we've bombed opportunities in games that we could have won either. There were certainly missed opportunities against Warrington and Cas which could have given us quite a different result.

I'm not disputing that we aren't converting opportunities into points, but the attacking structures have improved to create these chances.

Without chances there would be no points at all, ever.

Well he's certainly making some changes because there are one or two pretty upset players around this afternoon according o Jams Smailes!

www.hullfc.com/article/33640/big ... nst-devils Miller set to play.

www.hullfc.com/article/33640/big ... nst-devils Miller set to play.

That's not hard to work out

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