Quote The Prof="The Prof"I get it now. Bradders is right. Horne did nothing at the start of the season. At least not in the first game against Leeds because he wasn't chosen. From then on, I'm afraid Bradders is talking B**l*cks Horne’s first game of the season against Bradford: The latter started in a new-look half-back partnership with Richard Horne, who responded to being left out at Leeds with a man of the match display. Read more: www.thisishullandeastriding.co.u ... z2Rm9kubP9 Horne’s 2nd game: For the second successive week Holdsworth forged a fruitful partnership with Horne, with the duo complementing each other in a combination Hull seem set to stick with for the foreseeable future Read more: www.thisishullandeastriding.co.u ... z2RmAfMphF His 3rd game Despite missing key playmaker Daniel Holdsworth because of concussion, Hull proved more than a match for last season's beaten Grand Finalists for 60 minutes of a tight and entertaining affair. On his 350th Hull performance, Richard Horne's methodical kicking game and his side's robust defence earned them a platform to win the game, before Warrington cut loose as Hull fell away. Read more: www.thisishullandeastriding.co.u ... z2RmBbZojn Follow us: @thisishull on Twitter | thisishull on Facebook And his 4th game, against Cas What Friday showed is that our right edge is developing. We have always had strike on our left edge, but now we are starting to get strike on our right as well." "Richard Horne has played a big part in how well they've done and his service to the young guys out wide has been exceptional Read more: www.thisishullandeastriding.co.u ... z2RmCkWQxo Follow us: @thisishull on Twitter | thisishull on Facebook'" This is more like it. Now we're arguing properly. Thank God for that. Although, all you've seemed to have done is copy and paste third party sources that mention Horne. I don't really care about what people say about Horne, I want to know special things he does each game to warrant a place in the top 3 players thus far. A "methodical kicking game" is too opinion based for me. Sorry.

Quote The Prof="The Prof"I get it now. Bradders is right. Horne did nothing at the start of the season. At least not in the first game against Leeds because he wasn't chosen. From then on, I'm afraid Bradders is talking B**l*cks Horne’s first game of the season against Bradford: The latter started in a new-look half-back partnership with Richard Horne, who responded to being left out at Leeds with a man of the match display. Read more: www.thisishullandeastriding.co.u ... z2Rm9kubP9 Horne’s 2nd game: For the second successive week Holdsworth forged a fruitful partnership with Horne, with the duo complementing each other in a combination Hull seem set to stick with for the foreseeable future Read more: www.thisishullandeastriding.co.u ... z2RmAfMphF His 3rd game Despite missing key playmaker Daniel Holdsworth because of concussion, Hull proved more than a match for last season's beaten Grand Finalists for 60 minutes of a tight and entertaining affair. On his 350th Hull performance, Richard Horne's methodical kicking game and his side's robust defence earned them a platform to win the game, before Warrington cut loose as Hull fell away. Read more: www.thisishullandeastriding.co.u ... z2RmBbZojn Follow us: @thisishull on Twitter | thisishull on Facebook And his 4th game, against Cas What Friday showed is that our right edge is developing. We have always had strike on our left edge, but now we are starting to get strike on our right as well." "Richard Horne has played a big part in how well they've done and his service to the young guys out wide has been exceptional Read more: www.thisishullandeastriding.co.u ... z2RmCkWQxo Follow us: @thisishull on Twitter | thisishull on Facebook'" This is more like it. Now we're arguing properly. Thank God for that. Although, all you've seemed to have done is copy and paste third party sources that mention Horne. I don't really care about what people say about Horne, I want to know special things he does each game to warrant a place in the top 3 players thus far. A "methodical kicking game" is too opinion based for me. Sorry.

The problem is that the nrl and union have a cap double that of rugby league, this gives them the opportunity to poach the best players from our competition. Next year there are already some big names heading to the nrl...how many more to follow. Also our clubs now have little chance of bringing in any quality Australians because they can get paid alot more back home. While this maybe great for the up coming youngsters who will now get a game, in the big picture, can super league survive. Crowds are dwindling, sponsorship seems to be very hard to come by, and the people steering the ship seem to have few answers

On the other hand, very few clubs could afford any increase in the cap, so you'd either get even more of a gulf/monopoly than there already is or clubs going pop as rapidly as bubble wrap through a mangle.

There is only one answer, and it's to produce more players through the youth systems. The only questions are whether this can be done enough, and how in the hell scaling back to the 19s system will help to achieve that?

Basically no club apart from Leeds can survive without a sugar daddy so just bloody scrap the cap and let the sugar daddys pay for the best players before SL is just a league of players nobody else wants.

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