Welcome to east Hull Ryan Shaw 2yr deal

This is the way to go for British Super League clubs. Young British Talent, either from the academies or the Championships
Far better than signing a has been or never was player from the NRL.

Yep I hope we can find some more is their any nasty props down in the other leagues

Epapappy Lauiki is quite a nasty fella playing championship

Anyone else still worried that our recruitment in the backs by Chester will be undermined by our pack losing the forward battle as seen so often last season? I like the forwards we have signed but we are still missing power, most of ours are grafters which is fine but we need a couple of line breakers.

If recruitment is now over, as suggested by HDM, then I'd certainly be worried about lack of power in the pack. As you said, we got bullied way too many times last year and as we'd be going with essentially the same forwards as last year then I guess it would be more of the same. Hopefully the coaching staff see this and have got a couple more signings lined up. As the saying goes, forwards win the match, the backs decide by how much.

The thing is if a big line breaking forward became available every other team would want them too.

I'm not talking about top line internationals, there must be more dynamic powerful type forwards out there we could get. They won't be top quality, maybe slight gambles but if they're in the same mould as our signings so far I.e. Young and promising then that's fine by me. We need a couple so badly.

Mitch Allgood is the closest thing we have to a barnstorming prop. If we can be lucky and have him for the majority of the season then I'm ok with our forwards. Walker, Allgood, Green, Greenwood and Tilse isn't too shabby. The only thing we are missing is a Micky paea type player.

I expect we will still have a couple of forward loan signings to announce, further down the line

Yes we did get bullied in the forwards last season but do people forget we went into some games last season with Adam walker as our only prop tilse came in midway not ideal coming to a different comp puletua played as a prop when he's a second row again coming in midway same with greenwood weyman retired Bailey not turning up the pack was never settled having to use larroyer in a different way losing Blair out of the pack to cover the halves our pack isn't as bad as people are making out

........I coulda' been somebody. Instead of a bum, which is what I am."

You got that right.

couldn't agree more