Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Wed Jul 03, 2024 12:22 pm  

The NRL merry-go-round is in progress. I don't think we will see any new overseas signings until that settles down.

As for bringing in a prop, this season is done. Chan, Laidlaw and Gardiner can fill in. Armstrong will come in at some point too. Might as well save our pennies.

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Wed Jul 03, 2024 1:00 pm  

Latest update from Adam Pearson on investment and recruitment. https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/r ... SwWKNgA6Rg

Latest update from Adam Pearson on investment and recruitment. https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/r ... SwWKNgA6Rg

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Wed Jul 03, 2024 1:12 pm  

A part of me wants to get excited about this article but I must remember to stay grounded and not take anything the man says as gospel.

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Wed Jul 03, 2024 1:42 pm  

HU8HFC wrote:

A part of me wants to get excited about this article but I must remember to stay grounded and not take anything the man says as gospel.

To be honest what’s he said in that interview that isn’t going to be gospel? All he says is that we are trying to sign a couple of good players (who sets out to sign bad players anyways) from the NRL to fill our quota spots and he’s trying to attract some outside investment into the club. I’d expect that’s always been the case for years.

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Wed Jul 03, 2024 1:43 pm  

HU8HFC wrote:

A part of me wants to get excited about this article but I must remember to stay grounded and not take anything the man says as gospel.

To be honest what’s he said in that interview that isn’t going to be gospel? All he says is that we are trying to sign a couple of good players (who sets out to sign bad players anyways) from the NRL to fill our quota spots and he’s trying to attract some outside investment into the club. I’d expect that’s always been the case for years.

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Wed Jul 03, 2024 4:01 pm  

so we have a couple of marquee players and will probably have a couple of marquee players?

Hopefully these other 2 signings they are looking at are good but presume that means okunbor and sao probably be staying

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Wed Jul 03, 2024 4:05 pm  

Jake the Peg wrote:

so we have a couple of marquee players and will probably have a couple of marquee players?

Hopefully these other 2 signings they are looking at are good but presume that means okunbor and sao probably be staying

No chance Ockunbor will be here next season.

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Wed Jul 03, 2024 4:09 pm  

Jake the Peg wrote:

so we have a couple of marquee players and will probably have a couple of marquee players?

Hopefully these other 2 signings they are looking at are good but presume that means okunbor and sao probably be staying

Reading the Yorkshire Post article Pearson doesn't seem to know how many players we've already signed so I'm guessing he doesn't know how many marquee places we have either.

Whoever we sign I'm expecting them all to be over 6ft 4.

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Wed Jul 03, 2024 4:18 pm  

Steve0 wrote:

Are we still confident the investment will be happening or that it will be a significant sum? Aside from Asiata, none of the signings will be high earners really and aren't to dissimilar to the previous signings we've seen under Clarke/Pearson

In Hull FC we trust

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Thu Jul 04, 2024 1:48 am  

The article screams

Moneyball

Richie and his software !