Josh Reynolds can’t wait to get to work alongside his new Hull FC half-back partner Luke Gale.

Reynolds returned to East Yorkshire earlier this month having spent the first two months of pre-season recovering from knee surgery back home in Australia.

He’s still waiting for the green light to re-join full training with the Black and Whites as the club’s medical staff continue to monitor his situation closely but he should be able to join in sooner rather than later.

When he is allowed to pull on his boots and get involved once more, the 32-year-old will be keen to build up an on-field understanding with Gale as soon as possible, with the start of the Super League season now just three weeks away.

The pair are already getting on well off the field, but it is on it where they’ll be judged and Reynolds believes they could really complement each other with their respective styles of play and Gale’s kicking game.

“He’s a great guy, he’s a funny little bugger but you have to be for a half-back,” Reynolds told Hull Live.

“It’s me and him against the rest of the boys at the moment because they’re into us about us being probably the oldest half-back pairing in the whole Super League.

“He’s probably exactly what we needed. He’s great as a leader and what I’ve realised is when he talks a lot of guys listen and that’s probably one thing we missed I suppose last year, a little bit of chat around the boys.

“I’m excited to play with him, he can control a game really well and I think he’s great for me, he can get us around the park and myself and Jake can play off the back of him.

“I’ve watched a few training sessions and he’s got a great kicking game and at times last year we probably let teams off on last tackle a bit too much.

“We’ve put a big emphasis on that as a halves group and he nails those little box kicks. He’ll be great for that and he’s smart, we’ll have a different attack planned for every team.

“Even though I did laugh before about being the oldest half pairing, we can probably adapt a lot easier with new game plans, I’m excited to see how we go and hopefully we can link up over the next couple of weeks in training.”

Reynolds and Gale haven’t played with each other just yet, but they shared a field last season as Hull took on Leeds Rhinos at Headingley and it’s fair to say they had a bit to say to each other.

“We played at Headingley and they attacked our line for about 10 sets in a row,” Reynolds laughed, recalling their coming together in West Yorkshire.

“I was saying ‘surely you’ve got to score sooner or later’ and we had a bit of a tussle, but that’s a standard game for me, I hope he didn’t take it to heart.”