Shaun said at the last fans forum that he spoke to someone at huddersfield about danny, and was told huddersfield had turn down a £500,000 fee for danny from a rugby union club

To be fair I already got shot down in flames on this one and rightly so on some of the points.

I suppose the poitn I was trying to make is if we want a top notch 7 then we are going to have to pay top dollar?

There simply isnt enough around, and if we can't even hope to sign Brough then who? By all accounts we cant even tempt Dobson from Hull KR so who can we target who is better?

It would seem no-one. not in SL or in NRL - unless we pay big money.

Seen thread after thread on this site about this issue, and numerous names banded around, and all of them come down to the same conclusion, there isnt anyone cheap.

I guess what is really annoying is we've had Brough, could have had/didnt want Dobson (depending on who you believe), there was talk of Sammut for a while before he went to Bradford - any of them would be doing a job for us now.

Maybe the answer is somewhere in Union.

Either way, if AP wants trips to Wembley and Grand Finals hes gonna have to get that chequebook out, or we can all sit around talking about it as we have done for years.

2013

Todd Carney, Luke Kelly, Maurice Kennedy, Samisoni Langi, Matt McGahan, Daniel Mortimer, Corey Norman, Michael Picker, Ben Roberts, Todd Ryan, William Smith, Jamie Soward, Ryan Stig, Carlos Tuimavave

Dane Chisholm, Cameron Cullen, Adrian Davis, Nathan Fien, Brett Finch, Pita Godinet, Trent Hodkinson, Ben Hunt, Sam Irwin, Isaac John, Luke Keary, Robert Lui, Alehana Mara, Jacob Miller, Michael Morgan, Jeff Robson, Jason Seage, Arana Taumata, Chad Townsend, Sam Williams

2014
Braith Anasta, Wade Graham, Ben Hampton, Justin Hunt, Kris Keating, Jarrod Mullen, Kyle Stanley, John Sutton, Gareth Widdop

osh Drinkwater, Beau Henry, Shaun Johnson, Albert Kelly, Penani Manumalealii, Josh McCrone, Anthony Milford, Scott Prince, Jordan Rankin, Tyrone Roberts, Harry Siejka, Peter Wallace

The point is not that there isn't anyone cheap. The point is that there are very few players at any cost.


Brough left because he wanted to and because he had some attitude problems. It took him a while to sort himself out and develop into the player he is now. Hindsight is always 20/20. The Dobson thing is tedious TBH. Regardless of whether we did or didn't want him, we couldn't have him as we had no quota space at the time he needed to come here.


I'm interested in what seems to have made you think that AP isn't willing to spend money?

Biggest myth, ever. Matt Sing was going to be paid off. Kath wouldn't sanction the deal as Dobson wanted too much money (according to her).

Brough was told he was being released, or so he said recently in Rugby League World magazine.

I don't think many Hull fans were too broken hearted at the time and results for the rest of the season seemed to suggest it was the right move.

Brough has admitted in interviews that he wasn't being professional off the field, and that his release was the wakeup call he needed to sort his career out.

I still think it was the correct decision at the time, you can't keep disruptive players no matter how good they are.

I'd be interested how that would work with the salary cap as this all happened mid season.

Sing would have left for nothing and Dobson would have signed for nothing?

If Eastmond did become available he would be a perfect fit us as he is the exact the type of player we need personally before he left he was up there with Tomkins for individual ability to carve up a defence.

So would I, but that's what was going to happen. Who's to say we were spending full cap? Maybe we was going to back load Dobson's contract?

He was also down there with Dykes for minutes played.

I'm sceptical TBH. Singh was on a decent contract by all accounts and we weren't that far short of the cap that year. And we were never clever enough to manipulate the cap to our advantage before or since.

I fully understand why you'd be sceptical. But the truth is we could have had him and Kath didn't think he was worth it.

You mean "the truth according to what I have heard"?