You might not think it's his job to be first man in the tackle but not a lot you can do if they come straight at you/target you. Last time I checked, a hooker is a forward!

To be fair, Houghton is mostly the 2nd man in the tackle..

To be fair, anybody slagging houghtons defence off is a moron! Wears is heart on is sleeve , could make better decisions in attack, but he's everything you want from a local lad , 100% every week , no matter how e the rest of the te are playing

I've been told this morning that Miller is heading to Wakefield - apologies if posted previously.

Houghton's attacking has improved and the stats back this up, despite this being our poorest season in a few years, his attacking stats are the best in his career, this year he scored 9 trys and had 11 assists (combined 20) which is double any previous season, his average gain was also more than any of the previous 5 seasons also. His distribution isn't perfect, but since the criticism of him this year, I watched Clarke and his isn't any better. Our halfs don't help as they often stand too far back, hopefully this will change with Sneyd and Pryce and they will help Houghton out. I really don't understand the the Houghton bashing, watch the one game he missed this season (Catalans away) and see how much he was missed, our acting half play that game was so slow and we really missed him, had he played we would have won that game IMO.

He isn't perfect, but which hooker is, there isn't many I would swap him for in SL and if he became available I would bet plenty of top sides would try and sign him.

Back on topic I reckon Rovers will try and sign Tahu now that Nev has jumped ship.

Spot on dave

They've just announced that Ryan Bailey is joining them from 2015 for two seasons. That should make the derby matches a little bit more interesting!

Agreed.

My concern at hooker is that Cunningham can't fill Hazza's boots. I like Houghton a lot. Staying off topic, does anyone have an opinion on Brad Parker? He was picked for England this year so I assume he is in with a chance of making it.

Splendid

They are welcome to him,over-rated cheap shot merchant and windy get

we will see just how much of an average player he is being carried by the rest of the leeds forwards!

He'll fit in well with Cockaine, shame Edens gone mind

Radders may come out of retirement and give him another pasting

Unlikely given Wakefield don't have any non-fed trained places remaining.