Its great that the true Wakefield rugby fans come and post all the best to Paul, just like we do with Manu, wish him the best but just not against us next season.

Look forward to seeing him in B+W welcome to Hull Paul

ermm! he's a rugby league player, thats what they do normally, its his job

This is a good solid signing. The problem with fans of this club is they really don't understand a salary cap. I'd love an NRL front row, NZ centres and State of Origin halfback pairing but it ain't gonna happen. Not every signing we make is going to be a world-class player; that's not possible. Aspinwall and McGoldrick have shown there are some diamonds among the rubble.

I can't understand the chuntering. We put up with Dowes and Washbrook for years. Look where they are now.

Beat me to it - Why cant people realise Sam wanted to go home to Australia and we could have offered him a Kings ransom but that is the case. Paul Johnson I cannot give an opinion but he was happy to come and PG must think some-thing of him. In PG we trust.

A player who I hoped we would sign after seeing him last season and bits and pieces this season. Always makes good metres and seems to be good on his feet for a forward. Very good signing IMO.

Good post, and I'd also add that in the last decade players like Shayne McMenemy, Sam Moa, Colin Best, Danny Brough, Richard Whiting to name just a few arrived with little fanfare or from lower league clubs and ended up being fan favourites.

To echo what others have said, not every player can be a superstar.
All the good teams are greater than the sum of their parts.

Yeah - Washbrook ended up as the top tackler in SL this season, the shirker.

As for Jake the Peg - thrilled as I am to have achieved notoriety on the Hull FC board, you appear to have me mixed up with someone else; I'm not and never have been a mod.

On the subject of PJ - you'll get good value from him; he's an honest, hardworking forward with a massive engine - he doesn't break the line and has no offload, but he'll put his hand up and run it in hard as and when required. Came to us when very few would and last season, looked good in a crap team. I hope it works out for him.

From the 8 games I've actually seen him play, I'd say we've replaced like for like with Aspinwall, but he's 6 years younger!

Decent signings as a 4th prop, always going to me near impossible to replace Moa.

But we have 3 excellent props for next year and 3 young props with lots of potential battling for the 4th prop position, also puts is in a good position when the season after next we could be losing two of our main props to retirement.

I think we replaced Moa when we signed Watts.

Johnson is in for O'Carroll.

My apologies. There is a wakey mod who knows little about the game and acts like a total kok. I've mixed you up with him but it's an easy mistake to make

Really pleased with this signing, very good young prop with a good offload and footwork. Smart work from Gentle.

Stand corrected, you know where I was coming from though.