TOTALLY AGREE WITH MILD MANNER JANITORS EARLIER POST....

I really disagree with your post. I was one who said that Yeaman in 2007-2008 wasn't at his best and I didn't rate him too highly. However this season I feel that he is playing well. He is hitting the gaps more, showing more pace and I feel his defence is a lot less patchy than in recent seasons. Although I wouldn't exactly say he has an amazing step, he does seem much better off the mark and doesnt generally rely on 'ploughling' anymore. He has also improved his support play.
I also think that the idea he doesnt pass to his winger is a bit outdated too. Yes, he does have the odd time where he doesn't pass when he should but its rare. Most of the time I agree when he doesnt pass. In the oast he had this problem and I think he now has a reputation which has followed him since. Similar to Tony who everyone thinks is poor at catching kicks due to one or two performances when most of the time he is safe under them
He is also putting in a lot of effort and is showing passion. In the past two home games it was him who was shouting at the players and trying to get them going (I didnt see who was doing the talking at Saints so he might have even done it then too). When many players look like they really don't care at the moment, he is one who really is showing he does care yet he is still getting some stick, albeit not a huge amount. I use to give Lee a bit of stick and I have stopped now because he is actually doing O.K in my eyes and isnt one who cba, others should follow suit with Calderwood and to a smaller extent Yeaman

Fair enough, thats your opinion, not going to argue with your view point.

I disagree with you with regard to his passing, its a rarity when he does pass imo.

I would completely agree his effort has been top class, but I would expect any professional sports man to put the effort in as a given minimum.

I feel with his experiance, he should be offering more than just huff and puff.

Lets be fair its rare for any player to pass in the current side.

Just as Briscoe has become popular for his ability to walk through tackles, Yeaman came onto the scene with the ability to step around defenders and use his great fend to finish them off.

Some players play much better if they're involved in the game very early on and especially if they've been roughed up a bit. If they're left out of the game they seem to goto sleep and get lazy. This is where I think Yeamans problem is.

Good assessment of Yeamo for me.

I also don't think Yeaman is intentionally lazy. For me it's down to attitude. We need to involve him more from set plays Imo.

Yeaman's defence seems to be getting worse to me, Key. In fact, the whole left hand side defence needs tightening up considerably. Manu, Yeaman and Briscoe have slipped off far too many tackles of late and, as someone mentioned earlier, Yeaman steps out of the line far too often and doesn't make it count. He's a shadow of his former self, IMO.

Agree his once trademark spot tackling is more of a liability than anything else these days.

It maybe wouldn't look like he is jumping out the line if the team moved up faster together.

But they don't. And it does.

The team [ishould[/i move up faster, but that doesn't excuse anyone jumping out of the line, missing a tackle and leaving a big fukoff gap behind him.

got to admit i didn't rate him for the first 5ish games but he's been really inpressive for the past couple. the work he put into the game is top notch. would like to see him get more trys and stop running from dunny half!

IMO Yeamo is missing his wing partner,what Yeamo misses Raynor usually mops up, to be fair these two work well together in defence.

Attack is another thing altogether though.

But if he didn't do that, he wouldn't see the ball at all.

Thats just balls.

Lets give him the ball in a gap and see what he can do

On Friday we used his pace once and Rich Whiting scored

Very well said

We love you Whiting, we do


I agree with using Calderwoods strengths, that's the only way he will shine

Yeamo, Yeamo!

Calderwood needs to be given a free role, roaming around the pitch, and stick to his wing in defence only. Also, where have his quick 20 metre restarts been? That's one of the benefits of having Calderwood in the side, surely?

Calderwood could be one of our better players, he has had a lot of stick becuase of a combination of we dont use him properly and because quite simply a lot of people that follow Hull are just morons.

Sorry but yeaman for me has been very dissapointing, yes we have been on the back foot for the last few weeks but in the matches we were winning he wasn't all that & lately has been average at best.

We cant drop him at the moment due to injuries but how would he react to been dropped for not putting in the performances we know he can produce?
And yes those slagging Calders off need to go to specsavers, more consistant than T.Briscoe and made far fewer mistakes.

I assume you were in the bog for the 20th minute of the Rovers game!

An honest piece in today's mail www.sporthull.co.uk/rugby_league ... p?ID=12326 Let's hope the other players do realise this and knuckle down to some decent rugby.

An honest piece in today's mail www.sporthull.co.uk/rugby_league ... p?ID=12326 Let's hope the other players do realise this and knuckle down to some decent rugby.

Quote ="Pal of Mine"An honest piece in today's mail www.sporthull.co.uk/rugby_league ... p?ID=12326 Let's hope the other players do realise this and knuckle down to some decent rugby.'" Fair play to Calderwood for fronting up. But how do you go back to basics from where we are? Just stand still? Maybe they did believe their own publicity but it certainly didn't result in them looking over confident or trying tp play flashy rugby. They just lack enthusiasm and make very basic mistakes eg can't catch ,can't pass ,can't kick. Week in week out. Far from over confident they've generally looked miserable this season. Did Agar believe the hype too? If not it was his job to keep their feet on the ground. Either way the management of the playing group and their attitude and motivation is down to him and frankly he looks lost and sounds unprofessional everytime I see or hear him. can't see him impressing anyone.

Quote ="Pal of Mine"An honest piece in today's mail www.sporthull.co.uk/rugby_league ... p?ID=12326 Let's hope the other players do realise this and knuckle down to some decent rugby.'" Fair play to Calderwood for fronting up. But how do you go back to basics from where we are? Just stand still? Maybe they did believe their own publicity but it certainly didn't result in them looking over confident or trying tp play flashy rugby. They just lack enthusiasm and make very basic mistakes eg can't catch ,can't pass ,can't kick. Week in week out. Far from over confident they've generally looked miserable this season. Did Agar believe the hype too? If not it was his job to keep their feet on the ground. Either way the management of the playing group and their attitude and motivation is down to him and frankly he looks lost and sounds unprofessional everytime I see or hear him. can't see him impressing anyone.

indeed, they weren't exactly throwing the ball around arogantly were they



I think Calderwood has been trying recently, probably because he knows that if he fails to impress at Hull his career at a top level is over really, as everyone will have forgotten how he played for Leeds by then