So that will be continue to slag the club on here then.

When warranted, yes. When the club next do something positive I'll happily congratulate them.

Signings of O'Meley, Fitzgibbon, Long, Tansey???

Tansey is a good signing, I'll wait and see about the rest as I am unconvinced, Long certainly is a cracking player but IO am not certain about his desire and comittment, as I have said often, my biggest concern for next year is the coach, but we are going to have to wait and see,

Yet you compared leeds squad to what we will have, not the coaches. If you had said:

Super League 2010:

Agar
Mclennan
Mcdermott
Potter
Morgan
Brown

etc, then i dont think you would have too many arguing. As it is, i think we could have a very good sqaud next year, the recruitment isnt over. With a good mix of youthful enthusiasm and raw talent, and some experience

That patently is not true, as exemplified by your signature.

Don't know why people are worrying about 2010. Think about the ages of some of our highly payed contracted players for 2011... Then you'll really be worried!

Is that you, Jon?

hope you have permission to use that image

That is a very good point. After 2 poor years Hull have obviously gone for a quick fix but given little thought to subsequent years in my opinion.

We don't have a long term strategy, we simply stumble from one crisis to the next, and we have done for a long time. That is what is so frustrating, you cen see other clubs developing gradually, we wre given the KC on a plate, enjoyed the associated boom and did nothing to capitalise and move on.

Can you imagine where Saints would be if they had a 24,000 capacity stadium to generate income.

Considering that they can't fill their current one, roughly in the same place. Not that there's much room for improvement when you've had the success that they have anyway.

We have a bunch of players OOC in 2010, including most of those who some people feel are getting too old. In fact only Long and O'Meley are here beyond that date out of our older players. We hardly have our hands tied for longer-term appointments, and by then the question over Agar's tenure will have been well and truly answered.

We [ineeded[/i a 'quick fix' for next season, for a variety of reasons. We still have the opportunity to build a squad for 2011 and beyond while having addressed the main issues behind our appalling last two seasons.