I don't see your logic. Surely a better player improves your squad.

Good because that's who you've got and we've got Houghton, so everyone's happy now?

How much time do any of our players spend at the junior clubs that brought them through?



Go to any Wigan St Pats junior game and you'll find a number of Wigan 1st team players on the touchline and in the clubhouse at the end of the game. Similarly with Blackbrook & St Helens and Woolston & Warrington.



I don't believe either Hull club put enough time and effort into helping clubs to develop players at youth level

Andrew Lincoln

Reece Shearsmith

Michelle Dewberry

Yasmina Siadatan

Spot on! majority of them can't be d to attend presentation nights. On the subject of player development. AQnyone that knows his amateur and youth rugby know Hull can and do hold their own against all the other districts.



It's when these lads get to FC and KR that the talent is hammered out of them. I saw plenty of Houghton when he was at Easts as a youngster as an opposition coach and that lad was a very good player. He played in a good team but he won them many games by his flair and quick brain. Same can be said of Thomas Lee when he was at West Hull Villa.



Then they get to Hull and what happens???? Lee, Houghton you are not a 6 or 7 you are a hooker. Flair we will have none of that here son.

In the last 10-15years one thing has not changed at Hull.....coach wise. If Pearson and Gentle had anything about them they would be asking what happens to these lads when they get here that they do not progress

I'd seriously need to google each one of those

But who would you say from Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester or Newcastle?

Nicola Adams MBE, Jamie Peacock MBE,

Peter Charles MBE

Ricky Hatton MBE, Philip Hindes MBE

Alan Shearer OBE



Just off the top of my head...



(And that's before considering the sportspeople that have represented clubs from those areas that have had a lot of success, Man Utd and Leeds Rhinos!)

Wow, hardly captains of industry or Nobel Prize winners.

Assem Allam

Not sure why you are laughing but as long as you know.