Did Houghton play the full 80 again tonight? Will he be doing 240 within 10 days and we've now released both of our other first team hookers?

Absolutely ludicrous. Never given a fair chance but besides that what the hell do we do if Houghton gets injured or finally drops down from exhaustion after being flogged?!
This season has gone from disappointing into a total farce.

Probably a good move. Can't remember the name of the last young hooker Hull released. Think he went to ply his trade in Aus somewhere...

Shocking isn't it, from what I've seen the lad probably isn't the next Cameron Smith, but he's good enough as squad cover/bench interchange. Instead we let years of development time on him go to waste.

We'll have hadley at hooker agan

Good luck to the lad anyway. Don't blame him for leaving as he will want to play rugby and that obviously isn't going to happen at FC. I reckon he'll make a decent SL player.

Brought up through the youth team - good
Year on loan at London, learning trade - good
Substitute hooker, to stop this ridiculous notion that Houghton can play every minute of every game - agh, no, sign Stuart Howarth.
Play Howarth at loose forward.
Release Howarth.
Release Cunningham. Years of development, money spent, time spent, all to nothing.
Play Houghton in every second of every game just when the season is at it's toughest point, just when we have a fixture back log.

This bloke is a troglodyte.

Rather than pure speculation on the part of most, if not all, posters. Does anyone actually know why he's leaving?

No.

Either way, Radford must take the bulk if the responsibility.

Exactly.

My guess is we've let him go as he wasn't going to be offered a new contract and has been offered one elsewhere

Hes off back to London I think!

That's what Humberside Sport are saying on Twitter, announcement tomorrow.

good luck to the lad, thought he could have been a decent hooker given the chance but his opportunities were blocked by one of the untouchables!