Carlos Tuimavave has seen it all at Hull FC. From the highs of the back-to-back Challenge Cup wins in his first two years at the club, to this season’s disappointing 11th-place finish, the centre has witnessed the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Departing the club after nine years with an emotional final game against Catalans last month, Tuimavave, an 182-game veteran of the Black and Whites, has a good pitch on what the sides need most. And it all centres on one thing: leadership.
It’s something the Kiwi centre, who previously captained the club, believes Hull will have again next year, with the 32-year-old putting several key figures down as the catalyst to the Wembley successes of seven and eight years ago.
“If you look at our squad in 2016 and 2017 and the calibre of players we had there, I didn’t realise it at the time, but the players we had in terms of leaders, that’s probably something we’ve been missing,” Tuimavave said when asked on the main differences between the current squad and that of ‘16 and ‘17.
