Quote: imwakefieldtillidie "I think we need a better 9 than Hood. I don't think Cozza is SL quality either, certainly not for the first 17.'"
I tend to agree with a lot of the comments on here we can all see where the team isn’t as strong as we’d like but it takes time to build a successful team. It’s not just a question of buying random players however good and expecting to win the league. Up until the current season look at the money spent and league placings of hull. It’s nice to dream but suspect the names signed and names mentioned already take as a long way towards our budget. Hood and Doyle wouldn’t be my first choice hookers in sl but another year with hood to allow smith to develop wouldn’t be end of world. Realistically there isn’t much uk quality out there and available. It’s clear that as it stands Russel and Lino will be our starting halves. Storton at loose and our pack is pretty much sorted.
Cant say I care for hard acre or his track record but he would provide good cover at full back and centre, equally wouldn’t be disappointed. With hard acre an injury in the halves would allow a reshuffle with max or with Hampshire a straight swap into the halves.
Sounds like we’ve signed a centre from hull, the one player that’s really hard to call is walmsley - great eye for a try, couple of great try savers but reallly needs to beef up/improve his running out of defence.
Its all very exciting