Re: Hull FC Cup Game : Sat May 08, 2021 4:20 pm  

MadDogg wrote:

Lam won't be starting Liam Byrne again any time soon.

Like i said before, everyone was praising him last week. Does one awful game make him a bad player? He had a stinker today, but overall he's been pretty decent lately.
But the lack of Bullock is odd, to say the least.

Re: Hull FC Cup Game : Sat May 08, 2021 4:23 pm  

moto748 wrote:

Like i said before, everyone was praising him last week. Does one awful game make him a bad player? He had a stinker today, but overall he's been pretty decent lately.
But the lack of Bullock is odd, to say the least.

Spot on.

It's infuriating how hot and cold our fans blow.

Overall Byrne has has a positive start to the year. Outside of that he's progressed from last season imo.

Re: Hull FC Cup Game : Sat May 08, 2021 4:24 pm  

moto748 wrote:

Like i said before, everyone was praising him last week. Does one awful game make him a bad player? He had a stinker today, but overall he's been pretty decent lately.
But the lack of Bullock is odd, to say the least.

Yes he has been decent, off the bench. I'm pretty sure Byrne was dropped after the last game he started for Wigan (against Hull KR last year).

Re: Hull FC Cup Game : Sat May 08, 2021 4:26 pm  

sergeant pepper wrote:

Spot on.

It's infuriating how hot and cold our fans blow.

Overall Byrne has has a positive start to the year. Outside of that he's progressed from last season imo.

course he has, he hardly played last year, Ive never got the love in from him, Partington gives you loads of energy and tackles all day but makes no metres, Byrne is the same as Partington without the tackling and energy.

Re: Hull FC Cup Game : Sat May 08, 2021 4:32 pm  

Pieman wrote:

course he has, he hardly played last year, Ive never got the love in from him, Partington gives you loads of energy and tackles all day but makes no metres, Byrne is the same as Partington without the tackling and energy.

Yep.

Byrne, Shorrocks, Smithies and Partington are all basically just clones of each other. Tackle until they're dead but lacking any real quality with ball in hand. I imagine they've all spent far too much time in Waney's wrestling pit and not enough on the training field with a ball in their hand.

Re: Hull FC Cup Game : Sat May 08, 2021 4:35 pm  

It was oh so predictable, everybody knew what FC would do and once again we had no answer

Re: Hull FC Cup Game : Sat May 08, 2021 4:38 pm  

sergeant pepper wrote:

Or the consequence of not getting picked, despite having ineffectual guys in front of him.

Tbf I don't know the lad, but this situation doesn't paint him in the best light imo. I understand that he needs to get a wage, but he's immensely talented and still young. Sport in general is littered with late bloomers that had very good careers.

He's got more potential than Bullock (he's not a better player yet tho). Go away from Wigan, but surely stay in the game and give it another year as a regular player.

Or it shows that for players outside of the mainstream that the game doesn’t pay well and there are better opportunities elsewhere. What’s the sample size to say he has the potential people are claiming? A few seasons in the 19s where it’s easy for our teams? For the vast majority, if they are good enough they have a place in the game at some of the other clubs. Perhaps, the data available on him that clubs have access too paints a picture that rules them out of signing him.

Re: Hull FC Cup Game : Sat May 08, 2021 4:42 pm  

apollosghost wrote:

It was oh so predictable, everybody knew what FC would do and once again we had no answer

except Lam

Re: Hull FC Cup Game : Sat May 08, 2021 4:44 pm  

Watched a couple of videos with two player agents this week that Matthew Shaw did and both said it’s becoming the norm for players to get jobs and play part time in the championship. He said loads of good lads in the championship are turning down superleague deals because the money isn’t good enough for them to walk away from a job plus part time rugby money.

Re: Hull FC Cup Game : Sat May 08, 2021 4:44 pm  

DannyT wrote:

Or it shows that for players outside of the mainstream that the game doesn’t pay well and there are better opportunities elsewhere. What’s the sample size to say he has the potential people are claiming? A few seasons in the 19s where it’s easy for our teams? For the vast majority, if they are good enough they have a place in the game at some of the other clubs. Perhaps, the data available on him that clubs have access too paints a picture that rules them out of signing him.

Maybe, but look at guys like Bullock a former winger, who didn't make waves during his first stint at the club, or Mullhearn at Wire. Both dropped to the championship and now play for top SL sides.

Give it 12/24 months and he'd still be 22/23. That's when guys his age come out of uni anyway. The prospects provided by a FT career in RL is huge imo.