In hindsight you would have to say Hodgson by a distance. But at the time we all thought Houghton would kick on and we didn't know much about Hodgson.

Pah, I bet you were one saying don't even bother mentioning signing Sterling, he's too good
If we have Marquee cap money why the hell shouldn't we be aiming high?

I'd snap thief hands off and stick a bid in for Lunt

It's a good question. Clearly the right answer is both, and this was entirely possible, but that was another Agar masterstroke.

The value equation has to be who would we get who would be a step up from Houghton with the cash. Rovers have done some great recruitment but at hooker were arguably opportunistic in getting Lunt and really struggled before that. Personally, on balance I'd keep Houghton and get him doing more long kicking as I really think this an underused strength of his.

Who wouldn't sign him? the only team with 2 half decent hookers are wire and higham must be nearing retirement. wigan would rather him than logan tomkins I'm sure

All gone a bit mad on here
Few yrs ago it was an outrage danny Houghton wasn't being picked for England. Now he's rubbish.
What's more laughable to me is according to rumour he's good enough for the top placed team n 1 of the most successful teams of the modern area. But not for us! Lol
Don't suppose anybodies noticed aiton having already thrown 3 passes well above first receivers head or at their knees. Or clark n his very frequent erratic passing.
Not the entire way to judge but compare Houghtons stats with any hooker barring Roby. His work rate is miles in front. A as mentioned under used kicking game (an element most others don't have) all his stats in fact stack up but all round best by a distance.
Put Houghton in the current leeds team he'd utterly outshine aiton. Current player of the month.
It's not as if hookers are a plenty on the market n we've much bigger needs than hooker so why people are so keen to lose him is baffling to me

Who said he's rubbish?

Do u not read these pages?
Rubbish a bit strong but he gets his game over analysed and ripped apart to a ridiculous extreme on here

Not 1 person has said he's rubbish but for me i certainly believe he is a factor in our attack looking so ineffective on the opponents try line.

Fair comment that Houghton has taken some stick on here for quite a while. If the team on display at Saints tonight want him because they believe he'll improve them, that speaks volumes.

Danny has come in for stick of many on here ,all well out of order. Thats the problem with some of our fans,by all means criticise when poor but Danny IMO has been one of our better players this and season

I think it's more to do with options. Lack of team structure. When we find some form n I'm sure we will n we play with any degree of fluency Houghton will again be among our best

His effort and commitment are second to none. He is a good asset to the team. But when you break his game down and look at it technically he has a lot of deficiencies. Houghton should be the guy bringing a bit of speed and enthusiasm off the bench. Not the guy who is expected to control the game. That's not him and I doubt it ever will be now.

So no-one said that he's rubbish then?

Do u not read these pages? 
Rubbish a bit strong but he gets his game over analysed and ripped apart to a ridiculous extreme on here