Thornley in for Marshall, not risking Hampshire (18th man)

Shame not to see Hampshire - on the positive side that's a huge backline which should eat up the metres.

Some bloody soft penalties so far

Soft all round so far. That defence down our right side has been dire. Missing Willie Isa massively.

Too many errors, not at the races yet

Everything we feared is happening. Think the Shorrocks at 6 experiment is done as well.

Great refereeing performance. Don't know what's more farcical - his fat gut gut, the fake tan or how obviously biased he's been.

Each club should be required to play a minimum number of club trained players in their 17, that would require all clubs producing junior players.

Going exactly how I feared. We look like we lack energy and Hull look full of it. They are playing well to be fair to them.


Shorrocks and KPP are struggling in D

Obvious but we need to score next.

I fully agree. We need to step it up.

Feels like we’ve pushed it one week too far or maybe a full game too far at least. He’s done a superb job but we can’t forget it’s an emergency pick and no more. It’s a funny old game but you can probably get away with it more in games against Saints and Wire, than tonight because in those games everyone is totally switched on, covering each other and they’re rarely high scoring. It’s games like tonight where you need that threat and execution a specialist 6 brings. Last point is to say that’s not to bag Shorrocks, he’s done a great job in there for us in the circumstances.

Good to score at the end of the half. Our defence looked to have stepped up that last 10. Still can pull something out here. Haven’t seen Nsemba or Hill yet

Saving our subs the second period, hopefully we can come home with a wet sail.

Not seen a penalty for somebody passing after being called held for ages.

Having a bit of mare tonight is shorrocks

Shorrocks hasn’t caught a clean ball in two hands all night. Killing our sets.

Thaler a joke with this holding down.

We’ve been dreadful with the ball. Everything made up on the spot. Can’t fault the effort but zero brains for 9 and 7.

Why tf did Peet leave Nsemba on the bench for 75 minutes? Ridiculous to then bring him on as well.

On Peet that loss. Pointless playing a game with 16 players and giving Nsemba 5 mins. Ludicrous.

Hull probably deserved to win overall. Typical we play them as their form starts to turn.

Some of our defence was awful though, very grabby and lazy. Discipline in the first half was awful.

To say we were poor with the ball would be an understatement. French was sensational under the high ball, probably the only highlight.

You can never knock our effort, fitness and guts but we were so poor in our execution again. We need a stand off in there desperately but that’s not why we lose. Somebody, be that French, Powell, O’Neill Smith etc has to pick a pass to open them up with all that territory.

Fair play to Hull though. They grafted their backsides off and stick right in there. It won’t mean a great deal to us in the long run but it could be huge for them.

Terrible first half from us, penalties and half d defence.

Second half we just looked clueless. Hull just wanted it more.

That said, we were missing Field, Marshall, Cust, Singleton, Cooper, Ellis and Isa.

First half hour was poor, we then got our heads into it and the last 50 our intensity was there and defence was great, like other games though our attack just isn’t clicking and we couldn’t haul it back, really bad 2 points to drop, felt they were there for the taking all second half.

Hull were poor. We were are own worst enemy. Going to sound like a sore looser but the professional foul from Truman killed that game not the knock on