Terry Campese

Quote: Mild Rover "The 16 games you got from Dykes in 2008 would be a fair return, just about. Hopefully with Kelly in the squad we'll be less reliant on TC than you were on AD.
Reading the Canberra forum, and if we're looking for a Hull FC equivalent, as we inevitably must, I was minded more of some Hull fans' attitude to Richard Horne over the last few years - with less diplomatic language, admittedly.

Stan mentions that it increases the risk of us carrying an injured half. On the flipside, it reduces the risk of that being hugely damaging to our chances.
It has positive knock-ons too - Blair becomes more of an option in the centres, in turn meaning that Horne should focus completely on being a second-row.
Boudebza for Hodgson is (prospectively) a major trade-down in an important position, but it's hard to maintain standards across the board in this market. Hull haven't really directly replaced Heremaia (Cunningham is still promising rather than proven, I think it is fair to say) and it's hard to find any quality of depth at the moment, particularly at hooker it seems.'"

When Dykes played he went well for Hull. It was he that took us to Wembley in 2008. I think Peter Sharps departure didn't help Dykes who, IMO was rushed back a couple of times and hastened the end of his time.

The comparisons are there between Campese and Dykes. Looking for a new challenge, injury record not good, hoping to take the place of a HB which was the heat beat of the team (Dobson was not really replaced by Keating as Matt Head was not the replacement for Paul Cooke).

Regarding your comment Re Heremaia, Id expect to see Jordon Rankin used as a 9 interchange next season at some point.