Lots of talk at the moment about players whom have gone.

Luke Briscoe

Jack Briscoe (rumoured only?)

Craig Hall - Best player in SL (well now apparantly)



So all joking aside, whom who have we released (Youngster only <21/22) are we gutted about?



Craig Hall, I liked. but not sure he will set the world alight. I do think he is average at SL level.

Luke Briscoe - who knows - was gutted though, especially under the circumstances it was done

TOmmy Lee - not bothered, is anyone else? Will he make it?



Going back a few years, I don't think we have made too many errors, as not many players ripping it up ex Hull.



Maybe therefore we have not made too many bad decisions, but sad that we don't seem to have produced many SL "stars". I would have expected to have been sat here gutted that a couple of youngsters we released would be really good, but it doesn't seem to be the case.

Welham?

The only ex Hull player I would take back is Danny Brough and he is not from the under 22 bracket anyway.



The youngest Briscoe may well come back to haunt us but I suspect his stock is exaggerated by who his older brother is.

Can't really think of anyone tbh.



Had a quick scan through slstats - think these were roughly in that age group when at the club?



Craig Poucher

Matt Schultz

Richard Fletcher

Matt Crowther (retired I think through bad injury)

Paul Parker

Matt Donkin

Graeme Horne

Liam Higgins

Peter Lupton

Alex Wilkinson

Dwayne Barker

Andy Bailey

Danny Hill

Kirk Dixon

Matty Dale

Anthony Thackeray

Scott Wheeldon

Nathan Freer

Ashley Thackeray

Josh Hodgson

Dennis Touffour

Tommy Lee



In hindsight given our injuries in the halves consistently over the last few years, should have kept Lupton as cover. Kirk Dixon maybe? Wheeldon for Dowes?



Players I regret releasing/leaving are Garreth Carvell, Danny Brough and Paul Cooke (from a playing perspective only, obviously).

Id honestly rather have Hall back

Sad indictment of our youth player development that virtually none of our kids to come through in the last 10 years have made any real impact at the top level

Correct. Houghton is pretty much the best homegrown player to debut in the last 10 years - would that be right? Even going back a bit further, in the best era for a while of bringing youth through we had Yeaman, Horne, Cooke and King, and none of them were top drawer international class players. For an area supposedly a hotbed of RL talent, it's really poor.

Would say Houghton is probably right. Piss poor really, hopefully a thing of the past and they will now get their chance.

Westerman...............................

..................Castleford.

Bit depressing ain't it.

Hasn't Tom Briscoe been on our books since he was like 15 or 16?