Interesting poster, is Airlie15 (or rather 10+5)

Doom monger in the run up to the Saints Easter Monday game but then disappeared for a few days after the win. Played down our chances of signing Pritchard. Predicted under 7000 for the Widnes game. Couldn't see us beating Salford at home. Predicted Warrington would beat us by at least 40 points at the HJ. Predicted we'd lose at home to Cas.

A regular barrel of laughs.

Call me a pessimist then but again it's my opinion. I do think we have some very good players but you need to play as a team with a good coach and as yet I don't think LR is up to it he needs serious help. By the way you will see I am online all the time as I find it hard logging in it keeps crashing so decided to stay on. That is another reason why you won't see many comments from me

Good wifi at Leicester Forest East.

If you're online all the time, why ignore all wins and post exclusively as articulated by Come On You Ull?

I have to admit airlie 15 doesn't strike me as a Hull fan. This on the 2016 players/rumours thread

"And how do they stand a chance when the club just buy more top players?"

Never seen a fan of any club complain their team is signing 'top' players

When your posting history is exclusively negative and fails to acknowledge any success (eg improving year on year, 3rd placed academy team, good recruitment) I think you can draw your own conclusions. Lump in the cliches of not going anymore, predicting disaster and disappearing when we do better, you've got a full house.

My main specific hope is on support play. We've got a pack of players who can bend the line and promote the offload. It will be unforgivable if we continue to disregard backing up the ball carrier as a key priority.

Still some weaknesses in the squad which I think will stop us competing at the top table. Halfs not consistentlty good enough. sneyd needs to start to stamp his authority on games, pryce I expect will be less effective and more injured and abdul needs to drop some weight but even then we can't rely on a 19/20 year old. 3/4's average at best and no real cover for houghton.

If ellis doesn't come back from his injury we need to spend his salary cap in the backs IMO

Agree with all this. As just said we need to leverage our strength in the pack through eager support of the ball carrier to offset lack of quality 3/4s. Unfortunately it doesn't seem a priority.

I thought support play was better against leeds but mainly due to shaul who has always done it. Interesting that all 4 of the youngsters playing that night looked to "promote" the ball much more than the regular first team do. Different mentality or just lack of experience meaning less fear of it not coming off?

Richard Horne's influence possibly. His linkage with Shaun Briscoe was great. Agree about Shaul but it's a vicious circle. Our attempts to play more expansive rugby have been fraught with errors costing us points. It's not in our mindset so tends to look clunky. If we're going to by to work on one thing in the off season it has to be this. Pointless having a big pack if we're just getting them to cart the ball up and do a bomb on the 5th.

The Tank has a sublime offload that he's exquisitely demonstrated in the Dogs last two games.
Will be criminal if it's not adequately taken advantage of.

Watts is 3rd in SL for offloads (55) also. Need to build around this.

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