Apart from Asiata, it's very similar, Cartwright is an unknown as Okunbor was at the start of this season, lane and Holmes are very similar, lane less injury prone, Cust isn't a hooker despite the spin team saying otherwise, Abdul overweight and has injury problems, lafai and sailor haven't signed so you can't compare them and briscoe and McIntosh are similar, McIntosh had more pace, briscoe less errors, neither are threats to opposition wingers, I'd probably have kept Sutcliffe over Hardakre

Happy enough with Chamberlain as a replacement for Scott, but not necessarily as a starting player and not for 3 years. Decent age and experience, but not exactly exciting.

Holmes adds experience and is arguabley a better replacement for Cator.

Hardaker replacement for Carlos - similar age and experience, Zak played more than Carlos, will be cheaper and off quota.

That’s the way I see it. Cheaper and better (?) replacements for those players.

We’ve added Abdul and Asiata as ‘big’ signings. Cartwright to bulk the second row. Bourouh doesn’t replace Houghton, but I’d hope we go for two hookers rotating rather than flog one. Cust is a strange one, unless Trueman really is leaving - similar ages and Cust has the experience at higher level. Expecting two more ‘bigger’ names, otherwise it’s an improvement but way off play off standard.

Sailor and Lafai would make the whole make up of the recruitment much better but signing that PNG full back makes me wonder whether we are looking at that level.

Nearly as much overreaction on here than you'd find on a Facebook group.
Decent solid signings to supplement the young players coming through.
Myler has said recruitment and retention is also based on succession planning. He doesn't want to block the pathways of players already in the system, and who they have hopes for.
We'd all be moaning if we signed Rimbu and released Balformth.
Hardaker, Holmes and Chamberlain won't be on huge money. Chamberlain will be an astute signing.
Plus we're still not finished. Keep calm.

Agree think the last two quota places need to ge top SL players like Pearson hinted at.

You can see the logic I signing bang average and injury prone players if you want to play your youngsters. Great strategy to build the next 2 or 3 years on. There could even be a few thousand still turning up to watch us lose every week

What's worrying me is clearly Cartwright didn't suggest these players, Myler went out and panic bought and then no doubt Cartwright will get the stick if they don't fire us up the league.

Got visions of threads in a years time where people are discussing if Cartwright needs more time or should we get rid now and start 2026 recruitment

Rinse. repeat. Buy your passes now, next year will be better says Pearson again...

The targets are all acquired by the supercomputer now aren't they? We'll be fine...

But who else is available, apart from Wakey who has signed any domestic players of any note?

Who have Cas, Hudds, Leigh, Salford or Leeds signed from another SL club that is non quota, Burgess that's about it.

Really not easy to do, particularly starting late.

So far Myler has brought in Briscoe and Aydin who have both improved us, maybe give the bloke a chance?

Cust is a strange one, but think that comes from Cartwright.

Richie was in a hurry to get home so just got a few lucky dips

I haven't reached that level of pessimism yet but we really need a couple of stand out signings going in to next season.

i'm convinced you are Derek Beaumon tsuch is your negativity towards Hull FC.

Damned if he didn’t, damned if he did. He couldn’t wait weeks until a coach was potentially signed, he did what he thought was best. He’s been challenged by giving better balance to the squad in terms of experience and wages. Looks like they’ve saved some cash for Cartwright to play with.

To be fair to the super computer, it suggested Aydin who most of us were more than disappointed by. He's turning out to be a good pick up.

Let the algorithm do it's thing. We may be pleasantly surprised