Maybe Walker has asked to leave?

Judging by Myler's recent signings,
I wonder if any Leeds out of contract players would improve our squad?
Also, is Ryan Westerman close to be a first team regular next season?

The thing to remember is that we'll never be privy to the full goings on when it comes to recruitment. It's all well and good suggesting we should have signed one player over another, kept one player rather than bring someone new in, recruited a player in a certain position etc but we're not the ones actually involved in the process. As Dave K suggests, maybe Walker has asked to leave but the club might have also made the call based on his injury record for all we know. Maybe we wanted a centre but the ones we were linked with turned us down, maybe the club thinks young Ryan Westerman will be ready sooner rather than later. There are all sorts of variables at play that we as fans won't ever be aware of.

I will say though, and this isn't aimed at anyone here specifically, but I think one of the reasons our fanbase has been accused of being toxic is the reaction to signings and rumoured signings. Instead of welcoming a player to the club, we instead question and criticise the signing of that player and/or deem them not good enough for one reason or another. And that discontent only grows if they fail to dazzle in their first appearance and every match thereafter.

As I say, that's not aimed specifically at anyone. Just an observation on our divided and often negative fanbase who seem to have lost what little patience and positivity was left.

It's one of the other but either way I would have liked him to stay. Injuries aside he's been one if not the only player who has looked a threat this season and he would have given us a quota spot. It'll be interesting to see where he ends up.

My question is. Where does walker go

Signing news at 3:30. Rapana presumably, the post has a NZ flag

zits a good question, Hudds, swap for Connor?

Looks like we will be announcing Rapana signing at 3:30

I can see a couple of announcements this week

Either Rapana or deal deal is off for Sezer and we've signed SJ

If he changed his attitude on and off the pitch I'd do that and okay him centre

If anybody was under any doubt that the 3:30 announcement is Rapana just google his name on your phone... Therese a Hull FC Website post on there with a link to his first interview but when you click the link its gone haha, Someone posted too early lol

I don't think so. Grix mentioned him when he was on the squad a few weeks back and said he wasn't physically ready yet which makes sense as he's only about 18.
I reckon he might get the odd game next year though along with Dawson.

15.30? All announcements are made at 6pm. Can this club get anything right. It just gets worse.

I've had enough. I'm not renewing my pass.

If his attitude matched his ability, he'd be world class.

Two clubs have signed players we should have been after.

Looking forward to seeing Rapana. He adds professionalism, leadership and a will to win.

Plenty of moans on here but again no-one suggesting names of players we should have signed instead who were available and willing to sign for us.

I'm sure people just think that if a player is out of favour or out of contract we can just go sign them, without actually considering if the player would even want to sign for Hull. And at the moment, why would they.

I’d have preferred Woolford and Asi over Cust and Sezer.

Yes but it's not always as straightforward was pass on Player1 and get Player2 if Player2 then says no you've got nothing.

Cartwright has coached both of them before so I will try and stay optimistic that he's seen good things with how they work

No chance, he’s only 23, now if those numbers were reversed

We put all our eggs in the Lam basket and then panicked and signed Sezer, easy signing.

We're no different to the fan base of any sporting club in the world. Nowhere do you get universal agreement and positivity on signings. The difference with us is that the club has gone down the toilet on and off the field in recent years and fans rightly will have a more negative opinion until things start to improve.

On the recruitment as a whole, it's high risk and may work or may not. Injury prone players in cust and abdul, older players in sezer, rapana nad hardaker, young inexperienced hooker and journeymen like holmes and chamberlain.

Let's be honest, the 3 biggest areas we need to improve on are fitness (including conditioning), defence and attitude. Sort those 3 out and we'll be more than half way there irrespective of the playing group. That will be down to myler and cartwright to sort. It will be interesting to see what happens

I guess Woolford was drawn to Huddersfield because of his dad's link. Maybe we sounded him out but he was also in talks with them at the time.

I don’t think people are moaning per se or just for the sake of it though, I think they most are balanced with their views and reasons why.

For me Rapana who despite his age is still a top player who will add leadership which has been lacking since the likes of Ellis & Mini retired. In isolation along with Asiata then I think Rapanas signing would have been received a little better.
But with the likes of Sezer who seems to have done ok this season back in the NRL but did very little after his first season in SL and was practically anonymous at Leeds. Then add in Cust who can’t seem to get a game at Salford and has a more than chequered record in the SL fans. Add in we have ideally needed a running half to complement Abdull, a quality 9 to replace Houghton and ideally a quality centre then fans will quite rightly
question the signings given our record since 2018.

I just hope that the connection with Cartwright will be a big plus but remain to be convinced on Sezer or Cust as personally think both aren’t they type of players we needed.

Balanced post. I'm not convinced at all by the recruitment but with a new coach and the strengthening of the back room staff I'm hoping for a steady improvement on the field. That's the least we can ask for after the shambles of the last few years. Hope over expectation!