Re: 10 of the best : Wed Nov 23, 2016 2:06 pm  

i think the toughest choice here is whether to go for swain or houghton at hooker. both tremendous tacklers getting through a mountain of work but swain edges it for me with his distribution game management and all round play, but it is very close

Re: 10 of the best : Wed Nov 23, 2016 7:57 pm  

Personally I thought Jordan Tansey as worst fullback in past 10 years, he wasn't awful but recall in 2010 season he was first choice.

Dave K. wrote:

To be fair, not sure we have had a bad FB, in the last 10 years.

Thinking about it I'd put Craig Hall there instead of McKinnon.

Tommy Lee wouldn't be far off the side either

Re: 10 of the best : Thu Nov 24, 2016 12:23 am  

Tansey wasn't too bad at all for Hull and had some good moments. Indeed in the dire Agar days he was one of our few attacking threats. Bit of an idiot though who could have done better for himself. Worst was probably Phelps who was solid but not exactly spectacular but he wasn't a poor player either.

Re: 10 of the best : Thu Nov 24, 2016 1:11 pm  

phelps and tansey were not bad players but never really got above average - kind of sums up the quality we had in the main for the years 2009 up until last year

Re: 10 of the best : Sat Nov 26, 2016 12:04 am  

Erik the not red wrote:

Tansey wasn't too bad at all for Hull and had some good moments. Indeed in the dire Agar days he was one of our few attacking threats. Bit of an idiot though who could have done better for himself. Worst was probably Phelps who was solid but not exactly spectacular but he wasn't a poor player either.

Fair point, I've thought about the 2010 season and Tansey did have some good moments. Guess I meant he was one of our less naturally gifted full backs of last decade, but he still did a decent enough job.
Just watched a 24-24 draw we had with saints in June 2011. I was at the game, Sam Obst little chip over the top to set up a Yeamo try - one of the season highlights for me that year!

Re: 10 of the best : Sun Nov 27, 2016 5:25 pm  

Sam Obst! The most directionless scrum half I've ever seen in the top flight. Couldn't doubt his effort though, literally ran in circles.

Re: 10 of the best : Mon Nov 28, 2016 1:08 pm  

the cal train wrote:

Sam Obst! The most directionless scrum half I've ever seen in the top flight. Couldn't doubt his effort though, literally ran in circles.

Obst was signed as an interchange 9 who was forced into the halves due to Long dislocating his elbow. Tad harsh on Obst who did a reasonable job.

Re: 10 of the best : Mon Nov 28, 2016 4:43 pm  

I agree with your comments about Obst. Unfortunately he wasn't the only player in that era who was played in a position that didn't get the best out of their talents so that the overall team performance suffered. For example Washbrook in the halves, Fitzgibbon at 1st receiver and Berrigan anywhere but at hooker. Good players made less effective.

Re: 10 of the best : Tue Nov 29, 2016 10:17 pm  

webster has to be the worst scrum half we've had

Re: 10 of the best : Tue Nov 29, 2016 10:26 pm  

Chris Thorman must be up there as well for one of the worst halfbacks after that away game at Cas I think it was? Matt Sing was another quota player we didn't see the best of