Hope your flight was okay - gone somewhere nice?

I think Hull will be alright next season. The lad Matongo is going to be a player, I think - but he looks knackered at the moment. Taylor is fearsome, but he’s walking like somebody carrying about four injuries - painful just to watch. Bienek looks like he could eat three shredded wheat, from the clips i’ve seen. That said, I think you either need to adapt the way you play or sign another proven SL-level prop, if you want to be better than ‘alright’. If they’re fit, I think Connor, Kelly, Sneyd, Houghton is your best spine. Connor would almost inevitably play some games at centre or 6, so Shaul would still be an important part of the squad. Houghton could do to be spelled more nowadays too.

What would be a fair price for Jordan Abdull, I wonder.

We still need to be bigger and stronger, although Tomkins and Greenwood in the second row would/should help, for all that Greenwood has become worryingly error prone. Another in the mold of Mose Masoe would be nice too.
If Crooks can maintain last night’s form through the 8s I’d be very happy to sign him for 2019. Danny Tickle - best worst signing ever!

Now if we can just stay in SL...

… £500k for the aussie trip, allegedly.

I would like to see him and Atkin together behind a big Rovers pack in the coming years.

We can swap Jordan for Robbie M no fee needed.

Been barking up that tree for a while, especially when Shaul was playing absolutely shiiiite first half of the season. Can't see him ever being dropped tbh.

The Tickle hit on Taylor was really cheap. Nothing illegal about it of course, but I still dont like to players flying in on a defenceless player like that, especially in the back. Pretty cowardly and potentially dangerous. When you consider some of the really cheap penalties that are awarded for marginal high tackles, maybe they should be penalised aswell.

Connor is our best player (imo) and we need to get him in the team. Shaul is the weak link out of the positions Connor can play. People are crying out for some pace out wide. The obvious answer is Connor at 1 and Shaul at 5 isn't it?

Taylor was held, but not ‘HELD!’, so Tickle’s tackle was brutal but legal. It made me wince-smile, i’ll say that. There was nowt in the ‘crusher tackle’ on slapper Griffin, and i’ll be disgusted if that gets a charge... although not necessarily surprised.

Nothing personal, but the mental image of you with a monk-on, sat beneath the leaking roof made me snort-laugh, and turned an ordinary post into something of literary merit.

Is Shaul fast though? When did he last make a break and not get chased down? Haven't seen him get a shift on since he chased down Sandow at Wembley in 2016.

We need to get hungry again for next season.
The fine wine, caviar and cigars, can only be dined out on for so long.

Seriously?

Yeah the Griffin crusher was a whole load of nothing. Makes me cringe when fans are screaming and chanting for the ref to send him off. Griffin just turned in the tackle and and I don't think there wasn't really any unnecessary pressure applied. I do though have a problem with the inconsistencies that referees show in this situation, such as in the CC cup game when Richardson turned his back into Houghton and we ended up getting a yellow card from it.
Tickle hit into Taylor's back as you say was a legal challenge. Bad sportsmanship most definitely. The tackle was complete (held hadn't been called but it was pbvious nobody was going anywhere) and he was wrapped up by 3 men. Very unnecessary but nothing in the rules against it.