Re: Stuart Howarth : Mon Jan 05, 2015 12:32 pm  

Offside Monkey wrote:

The fact his distribution was slow off the floor was what most people complained about. If he's not at hooker, then this is a non issue.

Agree, his passing accuracy was o.k. but the speed of the pass from the floor wasn't good enough. To be fair he had a good work ethic and never shrugged his defensive duties.

Re: Stuart Howarth : Mon Jan 05, 2015 12:50 pm  

Ultimately I think that whatever position he plays in he is always going to be limited by his lack of athleticism. He is an earnest, hard-working player, but just lacks the speed, agility and power to be anything more than a stop-gap SL player IMO.

Re: Stuart Howarth : Mon Jan 05, 2015 1:03 pm  

I think Howarth is a perfect player for Hull just about his level. He looked slow with the ball at Saints but Hull are a bottom half of superleague side so should go well?

Re: Stuart Howarth : Mon Jan 05, 2015 1:12 pm  

Rommel wrote:

I think Howarth is a perfect player for Hull just about his level. He looked slow with the ball at Saints but Hull are a bottom half of superleague side so should go well?

I honestly don't think he's a super league level player. Wigan, saints and Salford all didn't want him and I'm not surprised from some of the woeful performances I seen in the red V.

Think I actually quoted him as the worst player I'd seen put the red V on.

Re: Stuart Howarth : Tue Jan 06, 2015 9:28 am  

Shannon McDonnell has joined Wests Tigers on a trial contract.

Re: Stuart Howarth : Tue Jan 06, 2015 10:36 am  

St pete wrote:

I honestly don't think he's a super league level player. Wigan, saints and Salford all didn't want him and I'm not surprised from some of the woeful performances I seen in the red V.

Think I actually quoted him as the worst player I'd seen put the red V on.

you cant have been watching for very long then!!!

Re: Stuart Howarth : Tue Jan 06, 2015 8:47 pm  

EHW wrote:

you cant have been watching for very long then!!!

16yrs

Re: Stuart Howarth : Tue Jan 06, 2015 8:54 pm  

St pete wrote:

16yrs

I've been a regular for slightly longer and off the top of my head I can't remember many worse than him.

The ones that do jump out are Bryan Henare, Ricky Bibey, who ridiculously has a Challenge Cup medal from his time with us and I thought Damien Smith was awful too.

Re: Stuart Howarth : Tue Jan 06, 2015 9:31 pm  

Don't think he's the worst, he did have a couple of ok games. As for contenders for worst Saints player I've seen: Chris Smith, Rickey Bibey, Josh Perry, Paul Davidson and Dom Feaunati (though I'm reluctant to include him because of that punch in the Good Friday '04 brawl)

Re: Stuart Howarth : Wed Jan 07, 2015 12:16 am  

I'll throw a few in;

Phil Adamson - absolute pap

Gray Viane, Tricky Trindall (the fact he never played doesn't help him), Wayne McDonald.

Paul Southern on loan, rubbish

Could go on & that's just Super League era.