be all and end all that was his problem, the days where few and far between.

When he was at his best, the fans loved him and his never say die running and the odd gem of an offload. If Dowes was half the prop, he'd be great.

Don't disagree with you, wasted talent which is a common theme for some hull players past and present. Got to wonder why.

Ask Mick Crane, Ian Bell, Rob Roberts, Michael Smith, Andy Bailey and others who lacked the application and maturity to be a great.

Paul Cooke, Tommy Lee, Glen Donkin, Jamie Bovill, blah blah blah could of gone on to better things.

Only one on that list was a good player.

I miss Donkin.

Add Leigh Deakin to that list. He was highly rated, but for me was bloody awful.

That's the thing, you don't really need to wonder why, fans need to raise their expectations of players social activities, being smashed in a nightclub on a weekend isn't acceptable during the season, too many players are "good lads" or "nice blokes" to the fan base, until they start to have their attitudes changed by the expectations of the people who pay their wages then we'll see the same wasted of talent year on year, I cannot remember a time when we didn't have an "if only" player at Hull FC.

Sadly true. I hope that the clear out of the bad eggs is being followed up by some tightened discipline but I fear that there may players there now who might well fall into the "if only" category if not managed correctly.

Paul attracted a bit too much attention from the social spying brigade, funny how he was always being spotted and more obvious ones where going un-reported. Nature of the beast I suppose, but for those of us who remember him as a young lad and at the time he gave us hope for the future along with Rich Horne and Paul Cooke.

I wish him all the luck at Wakey and it could be what he needs, we may yet see the KING OF OLD.

Constantly offering people fights in Pozition kind of does that Ian, nobody spied on Paul, he brought it upon himself.

They may have one or two, for old times sake!

The amount of stuff I used to remove from the board was at times silly, no way could anyone man been in as many places, drinking that much alcohol and survive is beyond me. I do think many of the "reports" where at best "stretching the truth" TBH and he is by no means the worst.