Tonight wasn't a \good game, and we certainly didn't play well. Having said that, we won! Two months ago we would have fallen apart in the last 20 minutes, tonight the players gritted their teeth and toughed it out. Why are people still costantly whingeing and moaning? Briers didn't paly well, Monas had a stinker, but they both stuck at it and we won. For Christ's sake look on the positive side for once. Grix is playing well, Bridge is playing well (all 3 missed kicks were very difficult and very close), Ritchie Mathers had a storming second half. Things are on the up at the HJ and if one or two alleged supporters start backing the side then things might even improve a bit more. You are supposed to be supporters, support your team!

Just because we won doesn't mean everything is rosy.

Don't forget Hull were missing a hell of a lot of players for various reasons.

Yes we had a great second half but that only papered over the cracks.

We had a few players out too, players who were in form.

we were also missing a fair few players we had part of our pack filling out the back line in fact from the start of the season only monnas and Briers would have been in our best 17,you should give credit where credit is due we won it wasn't a pretty victory but I guess we will save that for next week ,well played to the players who played tonight our goal line defence was better and they didn't threaten us apart from the 10 mins when Carvell was off and that was a very harsh call from Gashson .
The Tony Smith revolution is gathering pace

Hopefully we will build on this gritty performance on Friday night.

Let's hope Hicks and King are back.

Too many on here are querulous, but it wouldn't feel right if things were any other way.

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Agreed.

I get sick of people moaning on here after we won ! Jesus ! We're never going to be perfect, no team ever will be, so save all the unnecessary remarks for when we do get beat !

i fought the support from the wire fans was disgusting , all these people who say get behind the wire when we were gettin slaughtered every game and not coming becuase its a waste of money ,, where were all our loyal fans who say stick with the wire and have faith ?

Some of them are skint. Don't forget those over 16 have to pay full price for match tickets

Unfortunately some of us can't go for various reasons.

The fact that murryfield has just bin, 2 trips to hull then Barcelona soon my be the reason why.

Two points is two points.

Grind out wins and eventually you win something.

bang on

imagine if the grand final had been that exact game do you honestly think people would be saying we were bad?

They wouldn't give a stuff and i'll be honest if all our wins come that way this season i wouldn't care as long as we win

Dead right.

We showed we can tough it out. We were made errors going forward but we defenced well and were smart.

We were patient, made good decisions at the back end of the set and ground them down.

Really dragged ourselves back into the game. Under previous regimes we werent a side capable of going away from home, not play great but still be able to grind out a win.

Well go up a level if we can do what we did tonight when we have to.

Well done lads.

We ground out a win when we needed to well played lads.

monas was shocking another couple of passes into row z,
briers not much better,
carvell to fired up for his return to the kc,
well done to the guys who played out of posistion,
mickey higham had a blinder when he came on,

but like i say well done lads


bring on the pies....

I despair at our fans I really do, Quins were putting 60 on us 2 months ago and you're moaning when we win a scrappy one? Truely amazing.

at 16.6 i was less than happy but the 2nd half was a lot better with a lot of positives...theres still things to work on.this was agame we would have lost in the past but under smith theres a belief beggining to show with some players upping there game..

Some good points here, but City Wolf has completely missed the point. I'm not saying that because we won everything in the garden is rosy. What I am simply saying is, 'show your team some support.' As someone else said, I wouldn't mind 20 wins like that in a season. This site has become very negative. Look on the bright side, we've got a good stadium, we're in far better financial shape than most other teams, our Youth Development is really coming along and will eventually bear fruit, and we're slowly but surely starting to get things right on the field.
To answer some of the negatives on this thread, there are two reasons why support wasn't good last night. We've just had a weekend at Edinburgh, Les Catalans weekend is approaching, and the events of 2005 at Hull have put a lot of people off ever going there again.

The improvement is there for all to see,now that Smith has his feet under the table,but the worrying fact is that some players are being played out of position and it shows.Bridge is a hb,not fullback/winger/2nd rower or whatever and Monaghan is a hooker ffs.

Hull fc are a mess atm,mainly due to the manager playing Cullen type rl,we'll get a better indication of how far we've come,when we play Cas in a few weeks.A team who are of similar ability to ourselves.

Bridge is a very average half-back, as he does not have the temperament to steer a team round the park. He is starting to look like a good centre, though. Last night, the whole set of backs were moving around to cover for each other depending on the situation.

Briers had an awesome 2nd half. His kicking game won us the game repeatadly getting us repeat sets. We played crap and still won, and the defence was awesome, especailly under the amount of pressure in the last 5/6 minutes. They only scored 2 tries and that was when we were down to 12 men.

I haven't missed the point at all. I'm simply pointing out that we're still a long way from where we want to be.

Things are definately improving but it's really not worth getting carried away.

It was a pretty poor game all around but Warrington would have lost that game a few months ago. Our offence just didn't fire; it was strange to see Monaghan take the lead in the first half (but having an absolute shocker; back to his lack of passing ability again; who said the Aussies have better skills?) whilst Briers was anonymous. Second half Briers stepped up and we improved but it is looking increasingly likely that these two cannot work as a pairing.

Other negatives; Louis Anderson is an absolute liability. I actually thought 'don't give him the ball' when we needed to see the game out and he dropped the ball not once, but twice. FFS.

Other positives; Richie Mathers was a star when we were struggling. Carvell and Morley were titanic. Bridge showed good utility value. Higham was lively at a key time. Westwood was very disciplined.