I like the signing, but I do feel like he would be better for trimming down a little bit. There is a certain irony though that many of the people criticising him could only dream of being in that sort of shape.

I've not yet given up on Pele. He has a lot to work on, but we have seen glimpses that he can be a real handful. Maybe a good coaching staff can get him up to scratch. Okunbor on the other hand has shown nothing. I would like to see him get a run in the backline at least once before we call it a day with him though. Everything I've seen points to him being better suited to that than the second row.

Looks to me Chris that our recruitment in the backs apart from probably bringing in another centre is done so where is the lack of pace to be addressed.
its the backs and halves we need the pace and the power and size in the forwards.
Everyone keeps saying lets wait for the final recruitment to be done but thats clutching at straws in hope because Asiata apart whats coming in at the moment is totally underwhelming and second rate

But I’m pretty sure those criticising aren’t professional sportsman who are paid over 100k to keep in shape and perform all season long.

There are a lot of players who carry a little weight. There is no evidence to suggest his injury record is weight related. I think Abdull will end up a loose forward then people will be less critical of his stature. Again the pessimists are criticising before the player has started back with us which is their right but misery never won anything.

But what do you expect after the last few seasons? we aren't exactly an attractive proposition so Myler is really working with one hand tied behind his back.
Every player signed so far is an improvement on what we have and that is a plus.
As other's have said, let's wait until the recruitment is finished.

Stop being positive please, we are only allowed to slate every signing and everything the club does plus we have to keep hammering the point about slowest backline, slowest team blah blah blah, no more positivity or you will be removed from the forum, the coaches on here all know best.

Another one stop being slightly positive please not allowed.

Bingo

He doesn't have the fitness or workmate to play 13. Look at him compared to asiata. Chalk and cheese

In regards to Pele me neither and hopefully his spell on loan will get his fitness levels up and can reach his potential here. I'm hoping that Cartwright sorts out the whole backroom set up prior to his arrival as it would seem from the outside its all a bit soft in the Hull FC camp.
For me Okunbor just looks like a fish out of water and sadly for a quota a player he just hasn't shown anything to suggest he is worth taking up a quota spot.

I think the signings so far are an improvement on what we currently have but then again that's not difficult in all honesty. I think Abdul is a decent signing in terms of his ability as he's a very good player but as I said in an earlier post I would be underwhelmed if as club the intention is to go with Trueman & Abdul as first choice halves simply based on the injury records of both players over the past few seasons. The odds of both hitting 50% of games together aren't great which is why there is probably some concern amongst the fans and quite rightly, as we have been here so many times before it's untrue.

I don't think that is lost on Myler either and I'm pretty sure very few Coaches would come to a club in our state unless he'd had some assurances in regards squad rebuild.

It's still early days and no doubt lots of decisions yet to be made.

I'm pretty sure you are wrong, we are looking for another winger (possible) 2, a centre and possible a fullback.

Also the FB can play 6 too, so gives us options.

Abdul has played 10 out of 12 games this season. He’s missed 1 against Rovers due to loan rules and 1 through a niggle. We’ll see how he goes for the rest of the season. Everyone would’ve loved us signing Tom Johnstone but he has a worth injury history before he went to Catalans.

Abdul has come out and said that he didn’t really have a preseason this season as he was on the out with HKR and got to Catalan late. Catalan have then also put him on a specific, planned Load/Bulk to allow him to stop recurring injuries, improvement strength through movements.

Should this work, we can cut him down in preseason and benefit from the work Catalan have done reducing his injury susceptibility.


Theres positives and negatives for every signing yet a lot of our fans look exclusively at the negatives.

If Truey and Abdul pick up niggles it will allow Charles to get some exposure which is essential.

We still have 2-3 quota spots to play with depending if Satae is signed. Hookers & backrow/centre.

Feel like Corey Paix will follow Cartwright and would be a very good signing for us

Good positive post,

Think we will have 3/4 quota spots, fully expect Pele or Sao to go if we are signing Satae.

Asista
Ese Ese
Sao/Pele
Satae

Gives us 4 quota spots to play with, should we be able to sign Whitehead or Bateman, gives us some real flexibility how we use those spots, one has to be a and a hooker. Maybe that's why we are looking at sailor who can alos play 6.