Your average age tonight was 21 ours was 22 we both have some cracking kids coming through and its good for our game that some clubs take the time and money to invest in future players. Wigan and Leeds have been the leaders and model to aspire too, we are slowly catching up and our new crop of players are among the best i have seen for years. You have a steady stream of quality players and looking at tonight your future is safe, they did very well tonight and you have a every right to be porud of them.

In some ways tonight would have been a better match then last Saturday, but thats the way it goes.

Good luck for the play offs, I doubt our paths will cross again this term.

Blown away by the quality on show from your young players tonight. Wow. Great to see.

Of course... Rock on.

Very pleased with the performance, and with the cunning plan to get the desired result in the end without making it look too obvious...4th place is now a very realistic possibility!

WTF do people want 4th place?

Not that it matters but the average age of the Hull squad last night was just under 25, not 22 like people keep quoting,

Youngsters tested in a good performance, established players looking over shoulders.. Pity about the final score, but it's a "Job well done" for me.

Because Huddersfield, week off, Leeds/Warrington is a better route than Wire, Saints/Hull/Catalans, Wire/Leeds/Hudds

Thread O/T, but i don't give one who we play, so long as players are fit.

Lets get back to "back patting" the youngsters please..

I thought Gelling was very good last night. Interestingly on the other side of the field the first pass that Burgess received was in the second half and it was from Manfredi. Thornley was steady but not spectacular. He was outshone by Gelling. Another headache for Wane.

You're not allowed to say that he's a liability don't you know?

Great game last night. If that's the future, bring it on!

Disappointed with the loss when we should really have nicked it by one point but couldn't stop thinking about the way the young lads took the game to Hull. Hampshire in particular stood out and was well worthy of the MOTM award.

Wow WHAT a game that was! Thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it - last 20 seconds were disappointing but you can bet your life that won't happen again in a hurry and as such was an important learning curve. Atmosphere was about the best I have experienced at Wigan since the Good Friday fixture of 2003 when we were basically without a team and all the young lads stepped up to the plate and we beat Saints. Huge well done to all the players and to our coaching staff, think I know who will be the happier coach today and it isn't Peter Gentle.

It was 22.. So don't no where you got just under 25 from..

However, You lot played a blinder last night an your future looks to be in good hands.. Great match

Great game your youngsters are class. Gutted we sold you Hampshire for 4 grand. That's another reason to despise our ex board / chairman. Some of our kids are alright though so hopefully they can kick on in a similar manner.

Must admit though some of your younger fans need some more intelligence! Wanting to kick off for us singing "no points at wembley" - we were taking the pi55 out of ourselves!!

As pointed out elsewhere, it makes sense to want to avoid the favourites in the first round (unless Hudds blow it and let Wire win the LLS...)

I added all the players ages up and divided by 17, comes out about 24.7

Snap.

Shaul 21
Crookes 23
Whiting 28
Yeaman 29
Briscoe 23
Holdsworth 29
Miller 22
Watts 23
Houghton 24
Bowden 21
Kent 22
Tickle 30
Westerman 23
Horne 31
Green 23
Johnson 25
Pitts 23

24.7

Your data is flawed , Jacob Miller was 21 the day before Wembley .. Lets keep things factual when quoting facts.

My bad, yep 21. So... 24.65 then.

There are only 4 players in the 17 who were 22 or under and there are 2 30+, 2 29 and a 28 year old, how could the average age possibly be 22!?

Well that would make a big difference, wouldn't it?

The rest of SL must be wondering what they must do to compete in the future, our youngsters are class and will only get better , Think Wire may have to go abroad and buy some new 30 somethings soon

They have done - Roy Asotasi!

That lowered their average age by a long way though seeing as he's replacing a 36 year old