Re: Pre Season - 2025 : Tue Feb 04, 2025 9:48 pm  

I thought Sao had put on a bit of timber tbh but maybe it's planned

Re: Pre Season - 2025 : Tue Feb 04, 2025 10:01 pm  

Sao was the worst player we had last year
Total liability
Unfit and I assume carrying injuries when ‘fit’
I don’t go to many games because I live in Australia so you get a free shot on that one

I buy a lot of Merch and offered to buy a small % of the Club when Adam sent me the Prospectus about 9 months ago.

I’ve bought season passes from here in Melbourne before

Anyways - Sao just looks slow on the FB videos the Club regularly posts and I saw 2 instances of him looking like a typical slow forward in the Cas clips from Last ( which were very revealing )

The last 4-5 years have been the worst rugby ever served up by FC and I’m keen as many are to see the team Galvanise behind the new owners and coaching staff and I have already popped some cash on FC beating Dragons at $3.75

I will be up at 4am watching that one or whatever time it’s on

Re: Pre Season - 2025 : Wed Feb 05, 2025 12:21 am  

Tarquin Fuego wrote:

Sao was the worst player we had last year
Total liability
Unfit and I assume carrying injuries when ‘fit’
I don’t go to many games because I live in Australia so you get a free shot on that one

I buy a lot of Merch and offered to buy a small % of the Club when Adam sent me the Prospectus about 9 months ago.

I’ve bought season passes from here in Melbourne before

Anyways - Sao just looks slow on the FB videos the Club regularly posts and I saw 2 instances of him looking like a typical slow forward in the Cas clips from Last ( which were very revealing )

The last 4-5 years have been the worst rugby ever served up by FC and I’m keen as many are to see the team Galvanise behind the new owners and coaching staff and I have already popped some cash on FC beating Dragons at $3.75

I will be up at 4am watching that one or whatever time it’s on

Lets put things in perspective .....Sao & Balmforth were not fit last season?? - neither were the rest of the squad.(Aydin, Chan exempt)
The club had 1 unqualified fitness trainer, and 3 part time student physiotherapists
Is it any wonder, the players were physically incapable to compete in SL?? this is bordering on negligence..,;and we had a record number of injuries??
Had the club's hierarchy, employed more suitably qualified backroom staff, instead of pouring all income into unscouted signings, maybe we would've been more competitive.??.
When Myler arrived, he stated, "The club is not fit for purpose"
I'm confident it is now....

Re: Pre Season - 2025 : Wed Feb 05, 2025 6:05 am  

Tarquin Fuego wrote:

Sao was the worst player we had last year
Total liability
Unfit and I assume carrying injuries when ‘fit’
I don’t go to many games because I live in Australia so you get a free shot on that one

I buy a lot of Merch and offered to buy a small % of the Club when Adam sent me the Prospectus about 9 months ago.

I’ve bought season passes from here in Melbourne before

Anyways - Sao just looks slow on the FB videos the Club regularly posts and I saw 2 instances of him looking like a typical slow forward in the Cas clips from Last ( which were very revealing )

The last 4-5 years have been the worst rugby ever served up by FC and I’m keen as many are to see the team Galvanise behind the new owners and coaching staff and I have already popped some cash on FC beating Dragons at $3.75

I will be up at 4am watching that one or whatever time it’s on

Don’t agree with any posts questioning you or anyone’s loyalty or commitment as a supporters, we really don’t need that as a fanbase.

As for Sao I agree with others that it would be difficult to tell from those highlights anyone’s fitness and it was the first friendly of the season. We have a coach who promised the players will be fit, and seemingly acted upon this with a player whose ink was barely dry on a 3 year deal.

Last season was a total shambles, but I think we should just give everyone a clean slate and trust the coaching set up. Sao is in the last year of his contract, if he doesn’t perform to standard he’ll be out, but I think he’ll prove like most of his Hull career to be a solid forward. He seems a decent bloke and I’m sure will be wanting to write a few wrongs from last year.

Re: Pre Season - 2025 : Wed Feb 05, 2025 7:50 am  

Tarquin Fuego wrote:

Sao was the worst player we had last year
Total liability
Unfit and I assume carrying injuries when ‘fit’
I don’t go to many games because I live in Australia so you get a free shot on that one

I buy a lot of Merch and offered to buy a small % of the Club when Adam sent me the Prospectus about 9 months ago.

I’ve bought season passes from here in Melbourne before

Anyways - Sao just looks slow on the FB videos the Club regularly posts and I saw 2 instances of him looking like a typical slow forward in the Cas clips from Last ( which were very revealing )

The last 4-5 years have been the worst rugby ever served up by FC and I’m keen as many are to see the team Galvanise behind the new owners and coaching staff and I have already popped some cash on FC beating Dragons at $3.75

I will be up at 4am watching that one or whatever time it’s on

I think making conclusions from the 7 mins is difficult. It’s like reading quotes where some words have been removed. Sao has many attributes -fitness is usually one of them, effort,passion and no little skill. As so often happens behind keyboards criticism is much more likely to be spouted and rarely balanced with praise. So in that vain if Sao can cut out the indiscipline and ill advised offloads we have the forward who was so good for Samoa in the World Cup

Re: Pre Season - 2025 : Wed Feb 05, 2025 12:05 pm  

Tarquin Fuego wrote:

Sao was the worst player we had last year
Total liability
Unfit and I assume carrying injuries when ‘fit’
I don’t go to many games because I live in Australia so you get a free shot on that one

I buy a lot of Merch and offered to buy a small % of the Club when Adam sent me the Prospectus about 9 months ago.

I’ve bought season passes from here in Melbourne before

Anyways - Sao just looks slow on the FB videos the Club regularly posts and I saw 2 instances of him looking like a typical slow forward in the Cas clips from Last ( which were very revealing )

The last 4-5 years have been the worst rugby ever served up by FC and I’m keen as many are to see the team Galvanise behind the new owners and coaching staff and I have already popped some cash on FC beating Dragons at $3.75

I will be up at 4am watching that one or whatever time it’s on

im sure your club would have been in a better place with you at the helm ,walter mitty,billy liar, take your pick

Re: Pre Season - 2025 : Wed Feb 05, 2025 12:41 pm  

Sao was overplayed and frequently played out of position last year. Most of his misdemeanours were due to fatigue. I never thought he was unfit, just did more minutes than he should. Hopefully ashworth can stay fit and reduce ligi's minutes

Re: Pre Season - 2025 : Wed Feb 05, 2025 1:17 pm  

Jake the Peg wrote:

Sao was overplayed and frequently played out of position last year. Most of his misdemeanours were due to fatigue. I never thought he was unfit, just did more minutes than he should. Hopefully ashworth can stay fit and reduce ligi's minutes

Agree and I didn't see any discipline issues during Samoa's run to the WC Final. He needs to hit the ground running though, we have little time for repeated chances for players who have been there a few years.

Re: Pre Season - 2025 : Wed Feb 05, 2025 7:35 pm  

There has been a few players from last season who have moved on saying Hulls training was more or less half ar$ed and half a day long and it showed .
I think Sao will be alot better this season not only having a new coach breathing down his neck but been a lot fitter .