For what?

Is this a RL/ Northern thing ? low self-esteem,attack/ criticism rather then acknowledging positivity and success? ( I'm a Hull FC fan)

I think you can question our approach to substitutions without being placed on suicide watch.

We have a big squad and we have seen our forwards overpowered in a number of recent games (not yesterday's). For simplicity's sake, you have two options: load your bench up with forwards, and share out the hard work, or throw in one or two wildcard players who could come on and win you a game with something a bit different. Tasi certainly isn't the latter, so if he is not going to do 30 minutes of grunt to keep the other guys a bit fresher, why is he there?

He’s being sarcastic.

I'll admit it. I too, am baffled as to the non appearance of Tasi, yesterday.
We were picking up knocks, at the end (Cooper and Goodwin). Other players had played big minutes, in intense circumstances. Surely he could have been used to lighten the load. It's not as if he's a fresh faced youngster, and can't be trusted He has close on 200 senior appearances.
To pick him, yet not use him , seems insane, or just plain daft. Almost like last week's heatwave. You've seen the weather forecast. There's ZERO chance of rain, yet you leave your house with a waterproof coat and umbrella. Yes. I'm baffled.

Good performance and good win. Not perfect by any stretch but it was a good cup tie and very enjoyable.

Ratchford coming back made a huge difference. He’s a cracking player with ball in hand, under the high ball and a very good organiser/communicator of the defence (not the best last line defender though). Great to have him back.

Austin, while doing nothing too outstanding, ran the plays, organised the attack, and put in some good kicks. He was more of an off-the-cuff player at Canberra but he was structured and disciplined with the ball yesterday. Interesting to see he has that side to his game.

The props were dominant. Said pre-game we needed no drop-off after Cooper and Hill went off and Philbin put some hard minutes in, especially second half. Great try from Philbin at that end.

Plus Currie, Murdoch-Masila and Goodwin, really took it to Hull. They were dominant too. Great to see that from the two second rowers with them having difficult seasons so far.

Still a lot to improve on. I’d have liked to have seen some more pressure applied to the end of sets. We pinned them back relentlessly at times but then gave them a rest by kicking it out for a scrum. Maybe trying for a repeat set or chancing our arm for more points would have been better to see?

We also had a few errors that could have cost us... but thankfully didn’t.

All-in-all a really enjoyable game. Hull are a good side and a match for us in many respects (I think they have more creativity than we do) yet we didn’t let their strengths shine.

I forgot to record it so hopefully it’s on iPlayer, I’d like to watch it back.

On 56 minutes Hill gave a penalty away in front of the posts for a ball steal, Hull scored but it was disallowed for obstruction.

Congrats for the win, we just didn't take the oppprtunities, BUT the better team on the day won.

Enjoy Wembley, should be a good game. I don't mind who wins as a neutral,.

Judging by the haters omission to even acknowledged Patton played yesterday...I think those more tolerant will receive that as something.
#nobackisgoodenoughbehindabeatenpack

well done wire,you deserved it,and I you go on to stick it right up saints in the final,I’ll be rooting for you,and I would like to add how sorry I am ,for the behaviour of some of our so called fans at the end .i hope the culprits are caught and banned for life.

When we beat you in the semi final at Huddersfield some of your fans made a point of coming across and congratulating us on the win. They also wished us well in the final, but that didn't happen. Well played yesterday, a deserved win and lets hope that this really is "your year!" All the best.

The WG keep repeating that Hughes did a stint in the front row. I didn't pick up on it at the time but doesn't that make the whole Tasi issue even more confusing?

Come on mate, nobody hates Patton.

Thank you, lads.

In semi defeats against you guys and your cross city rivals this decade, I’ve given well-wishes to both sets of fans for the final as I’ve walked past either set of fans heading back to my car.

I didn’t see any bother with Hull fans after the game on Saturday though. What happened?

I would have thought that explained Tasi not coming on.

Hughes is a very fit player and great in defence. Murdoch-Masila had a really good game and put in some good minutes (a sign of things to come?) and Hughes is a better player than Tasi.

Yeah i saw that, i disnt notice it at the time but when i watched the game back he took a few drives in right up the middle

some idiots throwing plastic bottles or glasses when your guy scored and put the final nail in the coffin.

Did anyone else notice how Houghton drifted back interfering in our defensive line for the first Hull drive away from their line on more than one occasion? Something Hanley used to get away with.
Refs seem to have forgotten that attackers can be offside (I assume that rule hasn't changed?).

i think they got rid of it a while ago, i think it may have been catalan or some other expansion team got pinged for it a few times in a tv game or 2, in quick succession and it got removed in the off season.

i remember the players looking baffled at the ref when he penalised them.

Thanks FMC, it clearly passed me by!

Don't think i've seen BMM looking so fit for us, looks to have shifted a few stone and played more minutes than i've seen him play in a long time. Really hope this is him getting back to his best form

Didn't realise Hughes played at Prop but he's a big lad and when he remembers that, he does put some solid runs in for us. Having ratchford back for us is an absolute blessing and a much needed boost to the Squad at the backend of the season.
Just a quick question as i missed the build up to the game and not heard anything since. But what's wrong with Charnley? Not in the team and was on crutches.

Said before that Hughes is my first name. He does the dirty stuff that goes unnoticed. Every successful team needs one if not two of them in the squad.

Not what you’re looking for from a quota player though (not Hughes obviously).

No forward other than a class no 9 would be considered for marquee if it was my choice.

I don’t 5hink J Clarke is marquee RD.