Common in many teams. Lets the other players focus and maintain a line formation from the kick off.

Or, why not.

Because he made a complete mess of the last one, despite his only assignment being to get the ball in play.

ONE mistake in 80 minutes. Overall i thought he had a good game.

Because no player has ever kicked the ball out on full...

Sheesh

It wasn't a criticism just couldn't understand why when we had Briers, Hicks and Clarke out on the field

Indeed, that's exactly what I just said.

Kicking the ball out on the full is unforgivable, especially when you don't need to score/get the ball back.

Probably a Smith driven change. As soon as the ball leaves his toe he's in position & the line chases as a unit.

Good to see a straight line 10m back ready to fly past the kicker.

Exactly my thoughts....noticed Riley practice one before the start today. Inch perfect BTW

Aye send him out to Dewsbury. Who else made a mistake yesterday?

His first restart was inch perfect

the following full backs are not just better than Riley, but significantly better:
Webb
Wellans
Greenshields
Briscoe
Duggan
Richards

are we prepared for 7th best??????? g
Got to have players in the top 4 in any position to challenge for a cup/top League spot.

It’s a tactic a few teams are now using i.e full back takes the kick offs.

Leaves 12 players for the kick chase instead of 11, as the full back would not normally join the kick chase as it would leave him out of position..

You can add Brett Hodgson to that list.

Significantly more experienced too. I will admit I cande him after his performances against Wakefield and Caltalans, as long as he is consistent and doesn't go from one extreme to another, that is all you can ask.

Let him grow into the role. You can't just buy ready made players.

I don't think there are many fullbacks in the world that could have stopped a charging Azue from 5 yards out!..something of a mis-match

Incidentally Azue should have been tackled long before he even got to Riley.

My first two main criteria when looking at fullbacks is - they can take a high bomb under pressure and that they are a strong one on one tackler. If a player isn't strong in both those areas i'm not keen on them playing in that position.

I say again i don't know of ANY full-back in the world that could have stopped a charging Azue from 5 yards out!

Azue went in because there was 2 on 1 against Riley. He opted not to commit until late on as he was half watching for the pass to the supporting player. It was a try if he went to tackle him and a try if he didn't. nothing he could do really.

He nailed somebody one-on-one. Can't remember who though.

Ben Galea

Bless you.

He did great to stop him one on one did everything right, he went low on Azue around the legs and was unlucky. A Solid performance from Riles, keep it up lid.

I thought the young lads were exceptional yesterday. Riley, Cooper and Harrison. I would have given Harrison MOM.
Riley did make a couple of errors at the end, but no more or less then any of the others on the pitch, but probably more noticable....

Payback?

Why, how many Wire fans do you recall ripping the out of Hull FC's start last season.

Please name them? And if you can't, then you are just talking out of your as usual.