suttonrobin I'm sure you did this ages ago and to be honest it kinda freaks me out, please just say who you are.

get a room you two xxxxxxx

This would be the "Tackle Buster" Dowes that indeed broke more tackles last season than superstar Moobs Clinton, Liam Watts, Jason Netherton or Scott Wheeldon managed?

I'm not claiming that Dowes is a great prop. GML picked him out as an embarrassment, very specifically in the tackle bust department. Fact is, even as 5th choice workhorse (ie non impact) prop, his tackle busts per game are better than most Rovers props. Bring other elements of the game into it if you like, but that's irrelevant to GML singling out Dowes' alleged ineffectiveness as a tacklebuster when, in comparison, he compares favourably to Clinton, Watts, Netherton and Wheeldon. Strange he not laughing at them, particularly when you consider Clinton was the highest paid forward at the Broncos, yet breaks fewer tackles than a no-mark like poor Dowes.





None of which is to do with David Mills, strange how its off thread again mrs b

So where has Mills actually gone if he's not re-signed with us?

With the regards to the 'tackle bust' statistics , I suppose that only tells some of the story.
Part of the equation would be how many defenders are required to stop the run.

Not seen enough of Dowes to know how many defenders are generally assigned to stop his rampaging attacking runs.

Am i right in thinking Dowes stalled on a new contract due to a proposed pay cut and whilst OCC hull AFAIK hardly seemed overwhelmed from other S.L. coaches with offers to sign him up..... and when he did re-sign because of hull's failure to capture other projected targets the majority of fans on their forum didn't seem overly impressed he had been re-signed.

Likewise the overwhelming majority of Rovers fans were delighted Mills was released so on reflection it appears most HKR fans and Mrs B were all delighted with their respective clubs aquisition and release respectively.

At last the true point comes out.

Mills was Rovers weakest Prop and was released.
Dowes is Hull's weakest and got a new deal.