As a Rervers fan, Hull look disappointingly good.

But they are still foul and evil and from the wrong side of The Chocolate River's Tributary.

And, they all should die, twice, just to be certain.

Looks a bloody good player he does!

Ellis looked pretty sharp (bar falling off a couple of tackles which isn't too bad due to coming in with no game time for months) considering the nature of the injury he's come back from.

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Hull looked strong last season ? let me hazard a guess, you are basing this on just the first game of last season?

Radford is doing a fine job, hope the board keep faith with him and give him a long term deal which he deserves.

Hull looked good tonight, I’m really pleased for Radford, he’s taken a lot of flak & countless “Get Him Out” threads.

Catalans were their own worst enemy, how many times did they get pinged for messing about at the ruck, they must have watched O’Loughlin last night & thought they’d get away with it, well I’ve got news for you boys, he didn’t & neither did you.

Yes they may click as the year goes on, but it seems that quite a few teams have improved their squads this year & if they get dragged into the middle eight dogfight I doubt their resolve.

Top 4 of wire, hull, wigan and leeds in no particular order. Can't see anyone else getting a sniff. Early days but amazed many pundits tipped saints and that's not just because of Thursday...always thought they would struggle this year. Hull look very good

Think they'll probably win the Grand Final and Challenge Cup this year.

Don't agree with the last bit, Talanoa has been a fantastic finisher during his Hull career. I'd go far as saying if he was a lot faster. He would be world class, I don't think I'm the only Hull fan who thinks that either.

Last year we started with a win against your lot followed by 4 straight losses. How is that 'looking strong'?

I will personally be disappointed with anything less than the Treble and major representation at international level.

Not at all, I think every single one of us would agree with you.
Probably my favourite player now. He's not the quickest but god he is strong. Always makes yards after contact and it's not uncommon to see him break through the tackles and make a break.
And I agree on the finishing aspect. He's scored some great trys in his short Hull career and outside Carlos I expect him to score a whole lot more. It wouldn't be suprising to see him challenging for the top try scorer this year.... if the team can keep this form up!

Edit: I say playing outside Carlos, but he's also got Pritchard on his side too, and Sneyd (who had a great game yesterday) will also be operating on that edge, so all the signs look good for Binman.

Lets see where we are after five rounds. If we are still top people will take notice.

i am basing it on the recruitment and the good start you made after 3/4 games , your board was fairly content at that point.


apologies, i thought you had won your first 3/4 and were top after a few rounds or am i thinking of wakefield

tongue in cheek?

So you're trying to say that a team cannot look poorly coached?

When a team with the quality of players at Catalans disposal has very little in terms of attacking or defensive structure, when a team are playing like a group of individuals and when they have incredibly poor discipline, I'd say they look very poorly coached.

If a team cannot look poorly coached, does that mean they cannot look like they're well coached also?

I'm only saying that based on his finishing last night. Blew two tries by not keeping his feet out of touch.

We won our first game against you and lost 7-6 to Warrington. At that point we were fairly happy, but it soon fell off a cliff after that.

I understand that people aren't convinced about Hull just yet. It's a big jump to go from 8th to winning things in a season, we've also had a lot of false dawns before. But the signs are really positive.

We weren't as good last night as we were last week. Salford actually played pretty well last week, whereas Catalans last night were disappointing. I also felt we tweaked our style a bit. Against Salford it was all about quick play the balls, runs from dummy half and big men busting tackles. We only really started moving the ball once we got into attacking areas. Last night we showed more willingness to play in our own half and there were a lot more offloads. Whether this was a conscious decision because of the conditions and opposition or whether its just a sign of the confidence we have I'm not sure, but I thought we were good to watch last night, even if it wasnt as controlled as the week before.

Tbf they were both difficult chances, and he was only an inch away with both. In fact I thought the first one was okay, thought his foot stayed in the air, but without a ground level camera looking straight down the line it was hard to tell.

The touch judge had the best view of the first try and he didn't flag him in touch. ref gave a try and there was no video evidence to change that so it should have been given.
second one was not clear either way for me.

Talk about black and white tinted glasses! Clearly in touch on both occasions as the video replays showed.

Unless you've seen different replays to the ones they showed on TV last night then they didn't clearly show anything. Terrible angles used on both.

Which is the point. If the on-field ref sends it upstairs as a try the VR has to have conclusive evidence to overturn. No such evidence was shown.

Well, if you ignore his foot going into touch on both occasions then, no, no evidence was shown

I appreciate that you only having one eye when viewing FC will give you depth perception problems, but no frame of the footage shown last night definitively shows a foot in touch for either try. The angle they showed practically guaranteed that it wouldn't due to foreshortening by the camera lens. There may well be an angle that shows what you claim but it wasn't broadcast last night.

Aye ok then, whatever you say. You know best

Anyway we're getting knocked off the top by Widnes, so we can all pipe down.