I don't disagree, I just cannot see anyone being loaned out until the shape of the season has become clearer.

Hes a plodder, little speed, one show and go and thats his game over
good squad player if he is happy to have that berth but a starter?? no

Not sure that this actually applies to Washy, but imo the club all too often seem to bulk players up too much. It seems to me that in the past if we have a young kid with a bit of pace who is a good winger or , we bulk them up, they lose their pace and end up a 2nd row. If we have a young creative half back we again bulk them up so much that they lose some of their creativity and again end up in the 2nd row or at loose man.

I would suggest Tommy Lee and Graeme Horne as examples of this.

Houghton's job is to come on and run from dummy half and use his speed to find holes in a tiring defence. IMO the only game he has done this was the Quins game, the other three he added no impact. It's for that reason I would drop him as I think Turner could do a similar job if not better and gives us more options.

It's because the majority of people on here seem to enjoy putting player's down and are too quick in writing them off as not good enough etc.....
IIRC it's not that long ago that quite a lot on here were saying that Washy should be the future captain of Hull FC.

You talking about Richard Horne?

Yet more tosh.

I like Washbrook and think he'll make a top a player, but I agree with those that say he really needs to be playing regularly. I don't think sending him to the championship will do him much good either. FWIW, if we signed him, I'd be pretty chuffed.

Worked well for Hall.

Quite. You can almost guarantee that as soon as we loaned him out we'd suffer some crisis that we'd need him to cover.

What it did for Hall was allow him to regain his confidence, and maybe polish up his defence a little. Washy has no lack of confidence and his defence is just fine.

What works in one case is not likely to be universally applicable.

Yep, I agree with that. While he is making the 17 week in, week out, it aint a problem.

Agreed. As ive said before its because players like Washbrook and Lee played every week last season that we was so tosh.

Washy is a SL player but sadly not one that should be playing for a top side.

It's strange that any one can say this considering the 2 seasons he played in his position we finished 2nd and 4th and reached a grand final! Go figure!