Young?

Its amazing what losing two games can do to peoples judgement. DJ will be fine once he is in a settled partnership and got to know the players around him better.

You can't blame him for our lack of tries because he has missed a lot of games.

What is this urban myth of a "top 4 player" anyway, its the biggest rubbish I have heard ever. To get to the top 4 you need a team not just a player.

Agree with all of that. Holdsworth has had a few quiet games i agree, but to slander him like some posters have it's unreal.
Yes we haven't scored many tries upto now. But given how we've displayed upto now i can see tries in us once DJ an Miller have settled. Showed glimpses against Castleford, unfortunately our defense let us down.

Just to recap

you think Holdsworth isn't a top half back and you provide evidence of this by him making an error in hist 1st pre season game bearing in mind he didn't start pre season with the squad till early new year?

Horney has played more games this season so surely he has to take responsibilty for our lack of tries this season?

holdsworth has only played 11 games with his new team after only arriving in january and suffered a extremely serious injury which affected him in 2 or 3 of those games too

If holdsworth isn't a top Half can you explain why he keeps getting picked for the Exiles

Best kicking game we've seen at Hull for donkey's years and decent with ball in hand. one of first names on the team sheet I should imagine.

Basically.

The OP would also do well to remember that Horne is having his best season for ages partly because of Holdsworth's presence freeing him up to play his natural game.

I'm not 100% on him either yet.. Had 2 fantastic performances (Wolves & Leeds) around average the rest. Had more bad games than excellent this year, Friday in particular.
Should be nowhere near a kicking tee as he is IMO the worst goal kicker we've had in years!!

I agree he is an improvement on what we had but wouldn't be worth the reported big money!!

We really NEED to invest in a goal kicker next season, they win games!! DJ has cost us too many points this year never mind competition points!!

Crooks

Had 11games in total. Had Aaron, Horne, n miller as partners(not in sequence) back n forth. So not even built a real partnership yet. Take him away we get no points at saints, lose v wire n would probably lost v Leeds as well.
Also the argument about standing out as a big fish in small pond baffles me.(Salford) surely it's harder to stand out with no platforms to work off/with.
Seen plenty of players bigged up at top teams who've been shown up at lower teams

I don't understand the complaining about his goalkicking. Yes he isn't to good at the minute but he's not our 1st choice kicker, maybe he's just the best of the rest. There's got to be some reason he keeps been given the responsibility & I doubt it's because he demands it.

Yer, give him a go and get ticks training him for rest of season. DJ is the worst goalkicker for a long time and terrible this year in SL overall. He generally has an excellent in game kicking game and has a 40/20 in him but his passes are sometimes like he's blindfolded he misses quite a few and drops a lot of ball.
I think he is an average player and there are so many better halves out there. That said, Miller will improve and showed DJ up on Friday night. When he starts taking control of games both players should look a lot better!!

Who is this half back called Schofield?

so we go with Horne and Miller in the halves? is that what is being suggested?

beggars belief