FC's Grix: We can get to the next level now

The last 18 months at Hull FC have all been about change - and change has been gargantuan.

- By DAN TOMLINSON

Hull FC's Simon Grix

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In fact, come the start of the 2026 season, just nine players - Herman Ese’ese, Ligi Sao, Brad Fash, Davy Litten, Lewis Martin, Logan Moy, Denive Balmforth, Matty Laidlaw, and Harvey Barron - survive from the squad that started the 2024 season, and one of them, Balmforth, is heading out on loan.

That, amid a new head coach in John Cartwright, the returns of Gareth Ellis and Andy Last, and new owners in Andrew Thirkill and David Hood, has seen a true changing of the guard, and it's all been spearheaded by Richie Myler.

For Simon Grix, set for his third season at the club, it’s changes that needed to happen. After all, Grix, in interim charge back in 2024, saw Hull's lowest ebb, but now they're on the way back up and, after a year of restoring pride and the like, are looking to take the next step.

“We've had wholesale change,’ Grix, speaking to the Mail, said. “There's not a lot left in the squad really from the start of 2024, but those changes were obviously required.