Been a star performer in Super League (i.e. hasn't he been in the Dream Team at least one season?), played in play-off games, had countless MOM performances, racked up a lot of points. Okay no medals yet, but they'll come.

Couldn't you say this about any player who signs either Hull club especially O/Seas players, or am I to believe all players Hull sign come 'to play infront of the faithful' or 'after talking to Rich'.

The guy you've got on your avatar showed a lack of ambition signing for you lot, reckon if his agent had worked on it he could have got a club that had a chance of winning something.

Something to build the team around over the next license. If our promising young forwards mature as we hope, things could come good.

Who do we keep / let go though? For me I think time might be up for Vella, Lovegrove, Fisher, Hodgson (still not sure if he's got what it takes), and have been far from happy with Newton lately, but admittedly on a good day (as rare as they are now with him) he can be a handful.

Lovegrove being classified as club-trained allows us to have more depth. A switch to second-row might do him good - but then Galea and Newton do so many minutes ([ipassim[/i - Matt Cook). Hodgson, I think we have to be patient with - well, we do now, as he's here for 2/3 years. He's still only 21 remember.

Watts, Taylor and Cox could be the foundation of a strong pack for a decade. Equally they could all be playing in the Championships or have gone to the NRL by 2015 - you never can tell.

Yeah fair points mate. If Morgan does leave it'll be interesting to see if another coach sees the talent in Matty Matty Cook.

Sorry, went totally off on a tangent there. Great news, surprised that Dobson's signed for so long, Riolo obviously can't get him an NRL deal.