Re: Abdull Watch : Mon Feb 27, 2017 8:35 am  

Played well yesterday, interesting to hear Tim Sheen's appraisal of him that he has a good running game and has lot of 13 in his game. I wonder if he see's that as his eventual position? I know its something a few Hull fans have debated in the past.

Re: Abdull Watch : Mon Feb 27, 2017 9:38 am  

barham red wrote:

Played well yesterday, interesting to hear Tim Sheen's appraisal of him that he has a good running game and has lot of 13 in his game. I wonder if he see's that as his eventual position? I know its something a few Hull fans have debated in the past.

I think he would be best suited as a 13, but Radford (And most teams to be fair), dont like to play a ball playing 13,

If we had a ball playing LF, it would take the pressure off Shaul and allow him to play his natural game

1:Shaul
6:Kelly
7:Sneyd
13:Abdul

He would have to improve his fitness (Which he seems have done this year) and his defence to play that role though.

I have major doubts he will be at Hull next year.

Re: Abdull Watch : Mon Feb 27, 2017 9:40 am  

Dave K. wrote:

I think he would be best suited as a 13, but Radford (And most teams to be fair), dont like to play a ball playing 13,

If we had a ball playing LF, it would take the pressure off Shaul and allow him to play his natural game

1:Shaul
6:Kelly
7:Sneyd
13:Abdul

He would have to improve his fitness (Which he seems have done this year) and his defence to play that role though.

I have major doubts he will be at Hull next year.

He won't play for us again . We should have kept him here .

Re: Abdull Watch : Mon Feb 27, 2017 9:55 am  

HFC Boy wrote:

He won't play for us again . We should have kept him here .

I think its the right decision to let him go out on loan, as I don't think he would have got much game time this year at Hull, I'm not sure that Hull will want him back and if he will want to come back if he isn't likely to get gametime in 2018.

I think alot will depend on if Rovers get promoted or not.

Re: Abdull Watch : Mon Feb 27, 2017 10:12 am  

There's no guarantee Kelly will be here next year.

Re: Abdull Watch : Mon Feb 27, 2017 10:44 am  

Dave K. wrote:

I think he would be best suited as a 13, but Radford (And most teams to be fair), dont like to play a ball playing 13,

The post match interview with TS went into this a bit as he was discussing how we have been playing Addy there who is a good ball player but lacks a bit of go forward and yesterday we went with Donaldson who has go forward but needs better ball playing skills. Sheen's certainly seemed to be an advocate of a ball playing 13.

Re: Abdull Watch : Mon Feb 27, 2017 11:25 am  

Marcus's Bicycle wrote:

There's no guarantee Kelly will be here next year.

Quite right. In any case if Abdul improves this year with the experience he's getting it wouldn't be a great idea to let a home grown player leave. Even if Kelly stays there is no reason why a spot couldn't be found for Abdul if his form justified it.

Re: Abdull Watch : Mon Feb 27, 2017 11:55 am  

IMO I think he will be here next year. Looks like a good move by hull to let him.get good game time under his belt. Would have thought if we didn't want him just let him go this year.

Re: Abdull Watch : Mon Feb 27, 2017 1:52 pm  

hull2524 wrote:

IMO I think he will be here next year. Looks like a good move by hull to let him.get good game time under his belt. Would have thought if we didn't want him just let him go this year.

It would be weird to extend someone's contract if you wanted to let them go. This arrangement works well for us. If he improves under Sheens and we need him for 2018 then we can keep him. If he is surplus then I'm sure we wouldn't stand in his way if another club wanted him.

In 2018 we could potentially be without Kelly with no other halfbacks coming through. We might also see Ellis retire leaving big boots to fill. Having a talented young 6/13 on the books can't hurt.

Re: Abdull Watch : Mon Feb 27, 2017 3:22 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

I think he would be best suited as a 13, but Radford (And most teams to be fair), dont like to play a ball playing 13,

If we had a ball playing LF, it would take the pressure off Shaul and allow him to play his natural game

1:Shaul
6:Kelly
7:Sneyd
13:Abdul

He would have to improve his fitness (Which he seems have done this year) and his defence to play that role though.

I have major doubts he will be at Hull next year.

He has lost weight and seems fitter since coming to Rovers. I wonder why he did not do that when at FC?