Ill clap him on and off the field while he wears the shirt but heirs not good enough and we need rid. He's had a full year, not impressed once, brought more unwanted bad press and to top it off has had 2 consecutive performances were he looked like he'd never played the sport before!!

Awful awful signing and, along with Ben Galea, will go down as Gentles major clangers!!

another poor signing by Gentle: players like Crookes, Arundle, Johnson, Galea have brought nothing to the table this year, and are no better than the supposed 'fill-in' players like Aspinwall, McGoldrick, Martin we had last year.

Personally I still think the kid should be given a chance. He started well and got injured. Briscoe started having a rubbish season and he could have replaced him for a bit then but didn't. If he knew he was replacing Briscoe I think he should have played him more as I don't think Briscoe has been good at all this season. He was dropped in it playing at Wembley as well which isn't his fault and that's a big think to expect of anyone. I still think he needs more time to blend in with the team.

None of these players are in the 17 when everyone is fit. You can't expect top rate signings (should they exist) to simply cover for the 1st team.

The youth system is for developing potential stars for the future, but you still need reliable squad players who won't look out of place when picked.

Crookes and Arundel have hardly played due to a combination of injury and the breakthrough of Crooks and Lineham.

Arundel actually was actually looking pretty good up until his injury. Think he could be a good signing.

Crookes needs more game time before being judged. Looked completely gash in the game where he replaced Briscoe but has looked a lot better since coming in for Lineham.

these players were hyped up by the club over the Winter as being the ones that would fire us up in to the Top4 though, which is part of the problem. We were told the club was clearing out the deadwood and replacing with better, but in reality the players we've brought in are the same standard. The club creates a lot of hype and expectancy, and then the players aren't good enough to deliver.

No club is going to go to press saying that they've bought some more average players.
The "hype" is based on the belief that new signings will have a positive impact.

This'll do me................

Of course, the club is a business and has to sell tickets, but there's a big difference between announcing a signing positvely and going overboard with the all the 'ambitious HullFC signal their top4 ambitions by signing highly rated, international Joe Arundel' stuff we saw last winter. It creates unecessary pressure and expectations.

in fairness, did those headlines come from the club, or from the wider media?

It isn't helped by people clearly misunderstanding what the club puts out or just plain listening to voices in their heads.

Arundel is injury prone and looks like he'll struggle to ever put together a decent run of games without picking an injury up

think arundel will do ok for us, got a good step fair bit of pace, just needs a good run, think him and crooks are the 2 centre for hull next year with yeamo back up,