It's a no brainer for me. If he's fit he's on the team sheet.

He is still the best centre we have at this club, yes he didn't play very well on Sat but he's had a good season imo.

There always seems to be targets from the fans, right now it's either Horne or Yeaman. Yeaman is pretty consistent and is a good solid SL centre.

Right now I don't see a better option tbh.

Top class centres put the hits in and then dont make bad mistakes frequently like Yeamo has started to do. On that basis i can indeed pick at least one bad tackle per game which isn't good enough.

The last one if you watch it closely on sky Yeamo dropped it too straight into McGuires hands.

Yeamo has never been a target for me, ive often supported him when others dont. I am now at the point now though that you've got to question his selection based on the errors in both defence and attack that have crept into his game.

You are purely seeing Yeaman like some people see Radford.

When fans don't like someone they don't like them. Seen quite a bit of Leeds over the last few years and I can tell you Senior also makes a lot of errors, bad passes etc. In fact every player does, Fitzgibbon missed a one on one on Saturday but that goes unnoticed.

I like to think i see players based on how they perform with no bias. Fitz has made errors too in most games, his pass to Long was a shocker for example, however for Fitz he makes up for the one or two errors in the rest of his performance.

All would have been forgiven for Yeamo on Saturday had he held the late pass to drive through McGuire and win the game.

Biggest mistake of the night for me was Tickle though bombing the try at the other side of the field. Cost us too.

But surely that applies to Yeaman, he missed McGuire early on but then pulled off one or two important tackles. The early one was bad handling from him but McGuire deserves credit for the one late in the game.

It's not just the one game though. He makes those kinds of defensive mistakes pretty regularly, and has some huge flaws in his attacking game. You know I don't pick on players, Paul - my default position is to support whoever wears the jumper. But Yeaman is not a top class centre and never will be IMO.

I kind of agree here bud, but it seems a lot more people have a similar opinion.
Regarding yeamo its slighty fickle to say all would've been forgiven IF he had grounded that ball.
Imo everyone of them deserves credit for that performance.
Agree completely tickle took the wrong option, but taking into account briscoe was positioned completely wrongly for 1st try and berro giving away a penalty for grapple on smith ( done something similar against warrington I believe that ended in them scoring ) I find it bemusing we still single out certain players.

Other than Berrigan we don't have a better centre imo. People get things into their heads with certain players and keep going at them. Anything Yeaman does from a positive perspective is ignored if he makes one bad tackle. What about the 3/4 times in a game where he stops attacks and helps to save tries.

It's the same with Horne, a number of players have mentioned his one kick out on the full. Long did it early in the season in a match and it was not mentioned once. Sinfield also kicked out on the full, big deal.

How many Hull players missed tackles for the two McGuire tries and the disallowed Smith try, are those players being singled out.

That doesn't make him a good centre. It just highlights a big weakness in our backs.


This simply isn't true. My main problem with him is with his attacking game in any case.


How many of them bombed two tries? As the title of the thread indicates, he's being singled out for that rather than for his defence.

Yeaman is a solidly average player. His defence is not a weakness particularly but it also isn't as strong as some claim whenever he gets discussed. In attack he is usually dangerous on the end of a short pass near the line but has little else in his armoury. His backing up and general awareness is atrocious for a centre and his pace is borderline.

He'd be decent backup to a proper centre, but should never be first choice in a side hoping to challenge the top sides. His automatic selection despite his distinctly average form for the last four years is a puzzle and a concern, as was the very long contract he was given.

Berrigan played better in one single game than Yeaman has in four seasons.

We'll have to agree to disagree. I wish Yeaman had left and joined Saints or Leeds, then we would have seen his true potential rather than in a side where Manu gives him the ball once in a blue moon instead of trying to carry 10 players on his back to the try line. It was noticeable the two times Briscoe got good ball from Berrigan was when Berrigan got good ball from the poeple inside him.