Any sort of cup run would be a bonus

Ungracious or realistic? He's an average prop but was all that was available.

We all appreciate his efforts in an FC shirt for his 217 appearances but at the same time would have all liked a higher calibre replacement. We'll all also be fully behind him in 2011 now he's signed for FC.

If I pretend to have missed the sarcasm I'll congratulate you on you're first positive post!

Well done champ!

Just find it interesting how Dowes isn't good enough because he's average, yet someone like Yeaman, who has been average since June 2006, is largely considered to be a key player.

agreed, and on the back of sigNing radford for another 2 years makes the club a disgrace in my opinion...do the board actually think we will be challenging for honours with these two in the aquad? i dont, there 1. not good enough and 2. past there best....
no season renewal for me until these sort of players are shown the door at last...oh wait amit, radfords got another year after this andlongy wants another year the mind boggles

Me too, a reduced deal works for me. Dowes is dependable and solid which at the right price is good business. Of course I wish we had signed Fielden or LMS but you don't get everyone you go after.

Thanks very much , just off down to get in the queue!

Sort of agree. I was very impressed with Dowes when he went came back from that personal training thing he did in London a few years ago, but of course he was brought back early, never finished it and once the effect wore off he has looked solid but unspectacular. Bad move by the club to not let him complete it.

Not overly impressed by the whole thing though - smacks of "quick get Dowesy signed up, Player A/B/C has turned us down".

He won't let us down but it's not going to stir the masses to run to the KC to buy a season pass.

Is he? If you read the views of a lot on here for the past couple of years about Yeamo most will agree that he's been average at best.

The difference i guess is that Yeaman has had no service for 4 years like he used to get. Dowes has just been overtaken and is doing the same job as he always has.

With a decent halfback Yeamo could get back to his best. He needs to stop dropping the ball when hitting the gap though!!

I went to the England v Cumbria game a couple of weeks back and i thought that Dowes first stint on the park was the best i have seen him play in 4 years. Broke tackles and got a couple of good off-loads away.
It is Richard Agars job to get him to replicate that form in a Hull shirt. There-in lies your problem.

Whatever you think about Ewan Dowes re-signing the one positive you can take is that with this piece of the jigsaw sorted we must be a lot closer to knowing how things look under the cap and who we can in fact seriously go for now if needed.

Would have being bitterly disappointed if he'd have got more than 1 year however hopefully this 1 year might give him a kick up the . Not many teams have a better back-up prop than Dowes (hopefully that's all he is). He clearly had an over-inflated value of himself and hopefully the fact that he only got one year from us and the lack of interest from others will wake him up.

Fair point.