talking about taking it on the chin maybe Conner should be told not to chelp back at the ref, when he was given the red card he didn't want to go showing no respect for the refs decision
there was once a time when players accepted it whether it was right or wrong seems not any more

Yeah that was really frustrating! He should have just pinned his ears back. Even if he got caught he would have bought an extra 20/30m and with a quick PTB we might have scored/got a penalty much like our first try.

There were plenty of head scratchers though. A few poor passes from hooker. Crowther no look passing to nobody in the first half when we had them on the rack. Fifita’s pass to touch. We just really struggle with set plays and ball movement and the wet/muddy pitches don’t suit our style. We are better on drier turf when we can run off the back of Fifita.

To be quite honest I think we would be better moving away from set plays and just focus on off the cuff plays. I think splitting our halves and the ball to the FB out the back just doesn’t work for us as we can’t seem to get the ball out fast enough. If we are going to persist with the ball out of the back I think we would be better using a half at first receiver passing to the other half back because it just doesn’t seem to get out quick enough when our LF/PR are passing it.

I think we should try to utilise our second phase a lot more. Countless times Fifita and Battye got their arm free with no support. I think half of this is due to the pivot players setting up for the next shift and ball out of the back. I think it stops the FB pushing up through the middle. A shame really as we scored our best try last year when two forwards got their arm free with Jowitt/Lino pushing up through the middle. Offloads can be a high risk play but at least you can kill the ball when men are supporting through the middle. It doesn’t always work but with our lack of ability in set plays I think we should play to our strengths. Most of our tries are coming from broken play and I think that’s what we should try and engineer through offloads/support play.

To end on a positive I thought our forwards did really well yesterday and really battled well. Battye found his front alot and Fifita was his barnstorming self. I thought Arona and Batch got through alot of work. I’m still not overly convinced with Hood as there were quite a few loose passes but that may come with time. I thought Gaskell played well and looked threatening when playing direct. A real shame he went off! No lack of effort yesterday and I came away feeling entertained but frustrated.

No argument from me on that Snowie.

Might seem a bit churlish... given that I chose to live 13000 miles away from my home town footy team and in a different time and media zone...

But I haven’t been able to find highlights of the game (that are not blocked) anywhere... usually they’re available a few hours after the game .. Toulouse/ Hudds was ... but not Trinity Hull...

They were on Sky Sports same evening.

Sky sports show different sports in different countries .Was once in Spain ,Wakefield were on Sky .Put sky on to watch match, Spain Sky was showing Bull fighting

The video was blocked in Australia... RFL YouTube have all the weekend games from championship and cup.. Superleague YouTube have all games except the trinity game

All the live sky games are shown on fox sports here... but little else from anything except NRL sponsored games

you can get 2minutes of highlights on the Hull fc website free just click on hull fc live

Thanks feel better now

Ps dome nice tries from both sides ... but that was awful marker defence for hulls second try!!

Terrible taking that dummy and ultimately that was the difference in the end.

He just cut back to the space behind the ruck as happens 30 times a game... the marker (Battye??) was lazy... switched off and left a hole...

Happy bein 0 and 3 ?// our only hope once again is to survive after that performance - it is sad after 1 game that is all we can hope for

Good to see you're back in a positive frame of mind!

What planet are you on?
We lost one game. Get a grip.

Those that said Arona was passed it should look st his stats.
Make 34 tackles at prop and had the biggest average gain of 9 metres per run. He put in a massive shift.
We dipped when he and Fifita were off the field.

Have you seen the game??? How...??? I can’t find any highlights other than a couple of minutes on the Hull site...

Quote ="Spookisback"Have you seen the game??? How...??? I can’t find any highlights other than a couple of minutes on the Hull site...'" https://www.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... hull/56239 Can you get to that link? It's the highlights on Sky Sports.

Quote ="Spookisback"Have you seen the game??? How...??? I can’t find any highlights other than a couple of minutes on the Hull site...'" https://www.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... hull/56239 Can you get to that link? It's the highlights on Sky Sports.

Edited for accuracy.

Hull fan here. Does anyone have the official attendance for the game.

Thanks.

Something around 6270 I think.

First time I have seen the highlights. Couple of things that stood out for me. Miller gobbing off all the way down the line at MacIntosh and at one point showing him for the TJ break leading to the try. If he had focussed on supporting TJ we may not have needed the extra PTB to be fair he did well to spot the space on the blind side with the ball ending up in Hall's hand. The way the game is at the moment he left himself open to the ref giving a penalty against him for interfering with the defender.

The Lineham defensive effort in the build up to the Gale try is one of the worst I have seen, really really poor. Thought it was bad on the day but it is worse on film.

The Tanginoa miss wasn't as bad as I gave him stick for. He probably should have done better but Battye is slow to get across and Ashurst who is at second maker just seems to vanish into thin air rather than covering the space exposed by Battye over and getting it wrong from first marker.

It's all small margins (apart from the shocker by Lineham) but it is small margins which are the difference between winning and losing as Sunday highlights.

Fully agree with these points just to add Conner deffo saved a try with that shot and I would like to see the Batchelor effort that was ruled out.

Connor is a player who I love to watch ball in hand he is very gifted, I always wondered why Wane continually overlooked him for England. That "tackle" is the perfect example. Wane likes his players to have some balls and that was the attempt of someone who was bricking themselves. It wasn't a hard tackle to make in reality if he had gone for the correct technique but instead he just takes him round the jaw.

I agree it was definitely going to lead to a try but in the laws from that way out it was never going to be given as a penalty try.