I am going to copy and paste with some tweaks, what I posted elsewhere last week.


These are all my personal opinions, as much as I would like to see this team stay together and rule the league, I don't see it happening so for me, this is what I would do:


1: Williams, great player, good kicker, has a voice on the pitch but if the rest of the team are not performing alongside him, then he struggles. (Keep but get him the support on the pitch he needs)


2: Vaughan, needs players to play with, needs players who are willing to run alongside him and show for the ball if he gets an arm free, most of the time he doesn't have that. He should be hitting harder I think but when he doesn't get much of a run up because no one in the team seems to want to use his size and strength I think he is being let down, not letting us down, I think he is being let down by the rest of the team. (Keep if we get players to support him, or him to support others with big runs etc)


He needs to stop with the Arm Drops into players faces when he has tackled them, stop trying to milk penalties and just get on with the game, just because other teams try to do it, doesn't mean we should copy it!


3: Ashton/Walker/Powell, I think they show a lot of "want" and "Skill" with desire to play and win, the issue is again, the players alongside them don't seem to support them fully, Powell needs to show more though at times but I do think he is a good player. (100% keep build a team around them 3)


4: Sneyd, keep for another season whilst looking for a permanent replacement kicker, he isn't getting any younger and we need to get a young kicker or two, have them alternate taking kicks so they both keep in form instead of relying on one kicker and when they get injured having no one really to rely on.


5: Dufty, sadly I think it's time to call it, he just doesn't appear to me to be putting in 100% each game, whether that is because he just isn't bothered or because of the rest of the team I don't know, but I think he needs to move on.


6: Philbin, I like him, I think he gives as much as he can, but I think like Vaughan he needs more from the surrounding players, I think he needs to move on to another club where they will utilise him better.


7: Currie, get's a lot of stick from people but he is a general work horse of sorts, but I think to many times you will see him with his hands on his hips or head looking like he is clueless of what is happening or what to do. He should go to another team after this season sadly.


8: Lindop, being used as a "Scape Goat" by a few fans for Wembley, but I think he needs more time to learn but I think it might be worth loaning him out to someone like Wakey, Hull FC or Leigh for a season, somewhere where he will be a starting player and get that experience I think he is missing.


9: Tai, personally I think he is a really good player, I think though he just doesn't get the support he needs and for that reason I think he needs to find another team, I suspect Wigan/Saints would snap him up and he would thrive!


10: Wood, Crowther, Harrison, move on to another club, they would I think be better off.


11: Yates, give him another season, he puts in effort and I think another season with a team built around Walker, Ashton and Powell would help him as he reminds me of Burrow in a way.




Put a hard rule in place, no new recruit can be over the age of 24, cannot be injured at the time of signing and must be willing to sign a contract with the clause for players from Australia etc "if you go home due to being home sick, you cannot play in the NRL for 1 season" let's see how many are truly homesick!


All the rest would be told to have their agents or be looking themselves for other clubs.



Coaching staff, completely get rid of them all, start with a new coach, new training team etc.


Then because it will take sometime for the team to get to know each other properly and get to grips with playing with each other in a team etc, make the target for the first season or two, top 6, don't worry about the challenge cup, grand final, league leaders etc, go for Top 6 and anything extra is a bonus.


The problem is finding players and coaching staff etc that would want to come here, because frankly at the moment I cannot see us attracting many players or coaches.

I guess it’s why we can’t move Russell on, does not matter where he is nobody wants him.
Whitehead puts in a decent performance we don’t use him but he is off to HKR you can’t make this stuff up.

There should be an outcry of alarm bells ringing around the HJ over the fact that a team, who were only promoted to SL in 2017, are going to win a Grand Final before us given how much we have spent. It’s damning that is.

As a Hull Fc supporter, of too many years standing, I have a certain amount of empathy with this situation! I too know what it's like to watch my club going round in a seemingly never ending spiral. Players come, players go, coaches come, coaches go, and yet whenever progress is being made, it's not long before we're travelling in a backwards direction again. Yep, know that feeling all too well I'm afraid!!


Only four clubs have won SL since its inception and, in truth, most clubs don't really have the capacity and capability to be able to mount a serious sustained challenge for the title. But at some point in the past 25 years both Hull Fc and Warrington really should have put together a title winning squad and broke up the Wigan-Saints-Leeds triangle. Not convinced anyone else could have but us two, but we've both continually fallen short in this regard.


Watching you from the outside this year, I've no idea why you've been so underwhelming virtually all year. I thought you might kick on from 2024 but it simply hasn't happened for you and you're stuck at the crossroads of decision again. Once more, I know that feeling all too well with my club!!! It'll be interesting to see where you go to from here.


The worse part, for both of us, is watching the dreaded rovers do exactly what we should be doing. They spent the best part of two decades in the wilderness and yet they are increasingly looking likely to achieve a feat which has elusively remained out of our reaches. It's about grabbing the opportunities when they are presented to you. It looks like they will where neither of us did.


Hope it goes well for you, but you definitely look like you're floundering at the moment.


PS If you lose to us next Saturday, think that will be your already slim play-off hopes disappear. If it's any consolation we've not exactly been uprooting trees these past two weekends either, so who knows how next week will unfold!!!

karetaker: This doesn’t help. https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/the-warrington-wolves-stars-horrendous-stats-which-underline-2025-struggles They are woeful stats i have to agree, i am braced for what i am about to say but i don't mind Powell he speeds the play up when he comes on, his passing off the ground is good. Yes i know he threw one into nowhere on Saturday on their line but that's just one instance. He does need to add some running into his game 100% but i feel he's got some flak on here recently. Defending wise he's solid no complaints, passing wise he's on the money it goes right where you would want it when taking the ball in.

karetaker: This doesn’t help. https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/the-warrington-wolves-stars-horrendous-stats-which-underline-2025-struggles They are woeful stats i have to agree, i am braced for what i am about to say but i don't mind Powell he speeds the play up when he comes on, his passing off the ground is good. Yes i know he threw one into nowhere on Saturday on their line but that's just one instance. He does need to add some running into his game 100% but i feel he's got some flak on here recently. Defending wise he's solid no complaints, passing wise he's on the money it goes right where you would want it when taking the ball in.