I’d swap Sims for a bag of Haribos.

One of those little bags, not the sharing ones.

Mcnamara has done a great job, I'd also add that Catalans young players look exciting, Morgue is unpredictable whereas a lot of FC youngsters in recent years just drive the ball up and become squad players.

Catalans also seem to have done something to fix their previously woeful away form, whereas we badly need the key to playing well at the MKM.

Culture is a difficult thing to change in any organisation, I'd question why we've employed so many ex-players over the years, were Horne, Yeaman, Feka, Ellis etc really the best at interview or where they just cheap and available? Ellis aside most of them haven't played anywhere else and seen anything different to the HullFC way. Tho I do appreciate its hard to lure people to this end of the M62.

I'd also question what Purcell has brought to the club, Radford seemed to freeze him out but he's been back in the 'warmth' for a while now, but I'm still not clear what aspect of our coaching he does. Without being there on the Training field its hard to judge how the backroom staff perform but we've now switched from Radford, to Last to Hodgson with little to no change so maybe it isn't just the head coach.

Changed his mind shortly afterwards and has now signed for FC Lezignan in France's Elite One Championship. He'll be playing with Sam Moa.

Catalans have had a great season, however they have sonevwell with injuries, look at their squad for the weekend, what other team has 1 to 12 available and they also have the Tompkins brothers and Kasiano available who had later squad numbers.

Injuries are so key

Absolutely - see us in 2016. We had a good squad who stayed fit. The only long term injury was Jack Logan and that meant Yeaman became the regular centre. We played 35 games that season, Taylor and Houghton played all but one, Sneyd and Bowden missed two each, Shaul, Watts and Washbrook all played 30+ games, Talanoa, Michaels, Manu, Fonua, Mini and Yeamo all played 28-29.

Once you go beyond our starting 17 players the size of our replacement forwards go drastically down.we have 3 forwards that are under 6 foot and only weighing between 13 to 15 and a half stone. In my opinion if you want to be in the top 4 you need bigger forwards. At times we have 2 small forwards on the field at once and we have no go forward ?

Forget the squad our strongest 17 isn't good enough and certainly not creative enough, our halfbacks and hookers have been poor, that's our biggest problem.

I'd love a couple more big forwards, but unless our pivots improve we will wont challenge.

I'm recruitment has to be on this area and not more props.

With no scrums and six again, you need pace, fitness and creativity, we have very little of all these.

The 6 again rule needs scrapping. It is not applied consistently, and is quite often used for minor infringements, when the ref would not otherwise have awarded a penalty.
I'm not saying this with B&W specs on either. I have watched a lot of RL and seen it awarded, and more annoyingly, not awarded in a very random way. The best way to improve SL would be to go to two refs on the field, but with the dearth of good officials, that is very unlikely to happen.

Imagine Child’s and Kendall on the pitch all the game, and Thaler as the video ref.

Six again is an unmonitored excuse to punish, like the refs personal joker card.

I hope next season we return to a semblance of normality,

Any legs to the Sneyd to Cas rumours?

I saw someone on twitter a few months ago saying Eden, Sene-Lefao and Shenton as a 3 player swap for Sneyd, can't see that happening though. Sene-Lefao would be a useful player but don't think we'd want Shenton and Eden?