I think he should start with berrigan in the centres and houghton hooking. Would sure up our defence out wide as you can bet their game plan will be to move it wide from the off.

whiting or turner on the bench to replace berro when he gose to hooker.

Maybe berrigan isn't been as effective because he's paceing himself as he'll do near the 80?

We desperately need him.

Don't believe the p1ss and wind from morgan. fox will play on Friday

Me neither, same old from Morgan.

Im starting to think we should move Berrigan to centre too as he's simply not good enough at hooker and just like last season he's being carried by the rest of the team.

I don't think he's been carried by the team at all, what I do think is fans are watching him thinking because he's on double or treble the wage of others he should be double or treble as good.

Sorry but hooker is one of the main roles on the field and if your hooker is consistently not delivering then i would say he is being carried

there's a lot of players not delivering, are they been carried too? And by who?

One of the consistent problems over the last couple of years is players not delivering in key positions. Last year it was Berrigan, Lee, Washbrook, Horne and look at the outcome. This year i would only say that Berrigan isnt delivering. Horne was getting back to some good form, Long is up and down and then Fitz at loose man is our stand out player.

As I have said elsewhere I have been watching him amble up to the ptb and throw out massively inaccurate passes pretty regularly this season. When I see that I don't think of his wage, just that he is slowing down our attacking line and making things more difficult for his team mates. I don't think the team carries him, but I would like to see him setting an example by the way he plays and the quality of the work he does bearing in mind his international and SOO heritage. He has been very flexible since his arrival at Hull with the number of roles he has played, and for that he deserves credit, but that doesn't excuse shoddy execution of the basics of his main role as hooker.

Would you agree that a hooker, half back and stand off need a good forward platform?

Has a sutiable platform been laid in all games?

Has Briscoe, Yeaman and Tansey performed consitently well?

I don't see the relevence of how he gets to the play the ball as long as he does.

Agree with the rest of your post though.

Any number of players need to lift their game - the 3 you have mentioned certainly fall into that category. I look to current and former internationals to lead in that respect.

The point was more about body language and energy than anything else. Of course he just needs to get there in time, but I feel it is indicative of the team as a whole how lackadaisical we can be. The same goes for many of them.