hunsletgreenandgold

Best amateur RL club in the country and by some distance. It’s what we (Hunslet ARLFC) aspire to be like and I suggest many others do too. Honourable mention for West Hull and St Pats, who also produce many great players.

It’s not like they were coughing up chances in good field positions. They were battered back, mainly through the middle, from the first to the last minute. Dodd looked okay when he came on and jumping in at dummy half gave him a few more touches. I go back to what I said last week - this was never the game for him to have good debut and I’m actually glad he didn’t get long because some may have tried to point a finger his way but they really can’t considering he got about 18 minutes and already 26-0 down. Hopefully gets to stay in the team next week, although Storm away doesn’t offer much hope for Souths in general.

Dodd wouldn’t have made a bit of difference in Souths losing.

Agree re Brimson but the other 2 are literally half English and you must know the whole story behind how Radley reached out to Wane? I’m not so sure about King - he’s basically just saying he’d play for England or Aus, which isn’t that convincing.

Funny that a few weeks ago many were saying it was crazy he wasn’t getting a start at the Knights and now he‘s walked straight into a very good Hull side. So he’s hardly ‘nowhere near’. Those bottom 4 you’ve mentioned are nowhere near, Sneyd is a 7 and I’ve already discussed Connor and Welsby.

It has to be said, the ticket sales for Wembley have ground maybe not to a halt, but certainly to a trickle. My best guestimate now is we've sold somewhere between ~16-18k. I know we're still months off, I know there will be, hopefully, an advertising/marketing push between now and then, but momentum is everything. In say a month's time even on this forum all the chat about tickets and the series in general will be much less concentrated. I'm in London for few days in June - will be interesting to see if there's much going on to promote the game. Overall, I take nothing away from sales so far - there's much to be commended about having 2 complete sell outs. Now however, I'm revising my expectations for Wembley down and saying 50k will be a solid crowd that is hopefully still achievable and anything beyond that incredible.

As it stands Harry Smith will be at 7 - there's no reason for that to change, notwithstanding injury. I can only think of 3 viable options that leaves for 6 - Williams, Lewis and Pryce in that order. Welsby can play 6 but then that creates an unnecessary headache at FB.

If, according to some, Pryce isn't a 6 then Welsby definitely isn't. Connor is too conservative to be in that role against the Aussies - our 6 has to be a proper running threat to give them enough to think about in defence.

If the team was picked tomorrow I agree. But he has a real opportunity for us all to see what he's made of, in a decent Hull team. I'm sure he won't get picked, because Williams will be fit by around mid to late June and we all know he'll get the nod from Wane - not least of all because he'd captain as well. Lewis is the man in waiting - after that though, and if Pryce does play well, who you putting ahead of him at 6?

Williams out for up to 10 weeks - could this have an impact on squad selection? Definitely gives others, like Lewis and even Pryce some time to really throw their hat in the ring.

I honestly think being named to start off the bench is a blessing for Dodd. Does further show that the Bunnies don’t see a future for him there. He wouldn’t have been in at all if Sullivan hadn’t been suspended. Will need to shine in what will be a tough game for Souths for him to have any chance of staying in that side.

I don't mind them having NCL ambition - I just don't like how they're going about it. 'A bloke with a bit of money' never ends well in the community game.

If you understand what Mirfield are doing at all levels of the game, this isn't surprising at all. They've been pinching players since their latest incarnation in 2022, right through the junior levels. Now they're swallowing up a whole club, because Spartans have overall better players (at open age at least) and seemingly in some strife. The NCL application will be going in next.

I don't think this went the way Del hoped it would.... The winky face, as though he's a smart mover - dear god, David Brent and Alan Partridge are cringing. This for me encapsulates why people think he's plank.

That's what I searched to get that image.