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Is he an Hull academy graduate?

ffs roll on the new season

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This x 1000

Joe was part of the Hull academy set up until he was 16 IIRC, so he's half ours half Castleford. HTH.

Eh?

Blair can play in the halfs too. Like i said until we actually see all these new players play its just a guessing game. And 1 academy product or 13 it doesnt matter. You are not goin to play some one if they are not ready just for the sake of it. Im sure plenty of our young players will get a chance and if they perform it will be their shirt to lose from then on. You are spouting your mouth off about how little game time our academy graduates will get before a ball has been kicked, maybe you should just wait and see....

No he's not

If he was at Hull until 16 then he was never in the academy, he was on the scholarship scheme. If you are counting pre 16 then a few of the Hull academy would count as products of our academy and vice versa.

Apart from injuries, can't see Welham making the squad now. Can't say I'm upset about that, should have sold him close season as well.

Just to put a realistic slant on this, exactly how many of your academy will be in your starting 17.
Working on the 8 imports being in there (or why sign them) then add in the captain, the two new half backs and your only England player who again I assume will start if fit, Watts will likely be pretty nailed on if he’s fit too . So hardly a glowing report from the league’s leading light in youth development is it. Now for me what would be gut wrenchingly, vomit inducingly disgusting would be if we threw the previous year’s dream team player and young player of the year into the gutter after a couple of bad performances, now that's short termism.

You can only sell what someone is willing to buy.

Academy players in our starting 17? Not enough, yet. At a guess there'll be Shaul, Lineham, Yeaman (inevitably) Houghton, Hadley, Green, Bowden will all play at least 15 games injuries permitting. Then there's probably 4 or 5 others that will probably get half a dozen games, the likes of the England academy captain Jansin Turgut, Lancaster, Logan, Abdull and maybe a Tyson-Wilson or two.

Ben Crooks was beyond our control really, thought he was the complete player after one season and thought he didn't need to put the effort in.

Not sure where you got the impression Hull are the leading light in this area? I'd reckon that goes to Wigan, Leeds & Saints. Wouldn't you?

Ok, you can have it on a technicality, not really important is it?

Hadley, Green & Bowden will only feature to that extent if your imported forwards are injured, which is what I assume you mean by "injuries permitting". The rest can be discarded, as "half a dozen" games doesn't meet your 15 games a season criteria which we established yesterday was the benchmark.

Are you a politician, so our starting 17 is worked on everybody being fit all year, yours is worked out on evrybody being injured for 15 games a year. I'll reiterate if you had no injuries you'd have a max of 4 in a starting 17 that has 8 imports.