Re: Hull : Mon May 13, 2024 8:31 am  

Derek Beaumont has chipped in following our victory over Hull FC and used to take a swipe at IMG.
I have to agree with the man.

Re: Hull : Mon May 13, 2024 9:08 am  

Victor wrote:

Derek Beaumont has chipped in following our victory over Hull FC and used to take a swipe at IMG.
I have to agree with the man.

The thing is, if there had been relegation, we would have reacted brought in a new coach and 2/3 new quota players, the one positive about our situation is it has allowed us to play some young kids and take our time appointing a coach.

Hopefully they will move to 14 teams and you will be in.

Re: Hull : Mon May 13, 2024 9:46 am  

Dave K. wrote:

The thing is, if there had been relegation, we would have reacted brought in a new coach and 2/3 new quota players, the one positive about our situation is it has allowed us to play some young kids and take our time appointing a coach.

Hopefully they will move to 14 teams and you will be in.

If there had been relegation and we had not been slapped in the face by IMG.
We would have would have been in a position where it was worth recruiting better players , in addition we would still have an academy.

Re: Hull : Mon May 13, 2024 9:52 am  

Victor wrote:

If there had been relegation and we had not been slapped in the face by IMG.
We would have would have been in a position where it was worth recruiting better players , in addition we would still have an academy.

Maybe, Cas might have been in trouble then

Re: Hull : Mon May 13, 2024 11:10 am  

Dave K. wrote:

Maybe, Cas might have been in trouble then

Talking to people at Cas the other day, they believe that they are in trouble.
In addition the barriers at their ground would not have been repainted and there would not be seats in their West Stand.

Re: Hull : Mon May 13, 2024 2:15 pm  

Victor wrote:

If there had been relegation and we had not been slapped in the face by IMG.
We would have would have been in a position where it was worth recruiting better players , in addition we would still have an academy.

Scrapping the academy was Hughes cutting off his nose to spite his face as usual.

Re: Hull : Mon May 13, 2024 5:55 pm  

jbuzza wrote:

Scrapping the academy was Hughes cutting off his nose to spite his face as usual.

.........he had to do it himself though. if he'd employed someone to do it for him he'd be deaf now

Re: Hull : Fri May 17, 2024 9:38 pm  

Amazingly, this time next week London could be outside the relegation zone.

Unfortunately for London, "their" relegation zone stretches all the way up to first position.

Still, it would be nice to clear the relegation position as sporting fans would recognise it (bottom team is relegated).

Re: Hull : Sat May 18, 2024 12:14 pm  

Smithers99 wrote:

Amazingly, this time next week London could be outside the relegation zone.

Unfortunately for London, "their" relegation zone stretches all the way up to first position.

Still, it would be nice to clear the relegation position as sporting fans would recognise it (bottom team is relegated).

It would, but neither London nor Hull have covered themselves in glory. Hull were surprisingly poor but I assume they may benefit in the long run from giving younger players game time. We haven’t taken that approach. As far as I can see our young players will be, development wise, precisely where they were at season’s start. Frankly I’m not sure what our game is. Most of our players are on one year contracts so if they do improve from a year in SL we may end up not being the club who benefits. Anyway at least we haven’t lost every game and with a few back now there looks like real competition for places and we may become more competitive which will make the home games more entertaining.