Not surprised, he’s a cracking player.

The pitch and the stadium are looking immaculate in this weather.

Was down yesterday and to be honest it didn’t look bad from the flats all considering.

No need to worry It’s definitely his cousin with the same name And plays for the Broncos ,definitely be a marquee signing .We can dream I suppose .

Are you sure, I read somewhere they are not related?

It could of gone either way wrencat, he gets some stick does Sneydy, but his left peg is a match winner. Good luck in the future.

I rest my case.

Although we were blessed with Mr Child usual pedantry, which he evened up a little in the second 40. On reflection, you just have to say that it was a great game of RL.
Hull were the better team in the first half and even making allowance for the help they had from Child, deserved to be in front at the break but, Trinity certainly turned things around in the second 40 and produced a stirring comeback, with the 2 tries from Johnstone, especially the 2nd on, were stunning finishes.
Jowitt and Miller are improving as a partnership and our pack were certainly a match for theirs.
We outscored them 5 tries to 4 and the difference prove to be the boot of Sneyd, although his DG at the end deserved to win any game

I agree with your comments WC, the frustrating thing is we obviously lost the toss for the 'golden point' kick off and never had a chance to take advantage of it ourselves. You could say we should have tackled more ferociously than we did and kept them in their own half but these were tired players and Hull got the luck. Yes it was a cracking drop goal - like Miller did at Cats a couple of years ago!
I take great satisfaction from the game though. If we play as we did in the second half we'll climb the table.

It’s going to be a win one, lose one kind of season isn’t it? I’d be happy with that to be fair. Our best centre out for the season. No time frame on our best forward. Two of our three senior halfbacks out for a while.

I think it just shows against the so called better opposition you can't really have a bad half. Yes Child didn't help as per usual, but apart from a couple, he got us penalised deservedly in the 1st half, but I will look closely on Trin tv whether Hull were that squeaky clean! Just like at Cas, a bad 40 mins is virtually impossible to turn around and come out on top. Even when we beat Warrington we were dodgy the 1st half. If we can get a good controlling the game for 60 minutes, we have the firepower to hurt teams, and it showed last night real depth, and options. Great effort boys, it was a real sickener to lose that way.

I don’t know if it’s the modern athlete collision stress syndrome Willzay, but I remember when nearly all our players were out of condition, loved a beer, without disrespecting them, a lot were fat as well, but they very rarely missed a game, and the money was crap!

As you say Wakey are without players, you could make a team out of the players missing or injured in both Hull clubs, and now these injuries seem to last forever.

It's not so much the decisions he gives against us but the ones you don't get when the opposition do the exact same thing. There's a word for it.... Ah yes, cheating

Up to last night I'd agree with you (Arundal you're referring to no doubt) but Atkins has lost none of his class and his name would be one of the first on the teamsheet for me. LYne had a good game as well!

Definitely his cousin ,also another guy playing Nrl with the same surname, but no relation .

Best out for season ? .Thought they were playing last night though one on the wing.Atkins got man of match last night following is good display at Salford .BJB said last night he was waiting for all clear from doctor , and could be back for Magic Weekend.Think he as been a big lose

While I think a lot of us has mentioned Childs performance more than our own, notably when Hull were offside a lot, why do we not try the chip over the top sometimes when games are going this way. It may just put the opponents on the back foot a little, and create a bit of doubt in their defensive line

Like Liam Marshall did to score his wonder-try last week ??

Maybe so.

It used to be a tactic we used with two half backs, cant remember which duo. One chipped over top, the other following up, and then passing to a supporting player.

Last time I saw us do a proper kick and chase straight from a scrum was Goulding kicking long for Paul Sampson. Remember Grix kicking over on 1st tackle at Cas and Cas collecting ball and opening the scoring.

Just expanding on that idea, I do frequently think that we could benefit from "thinking outside the box" a bit more, such as taking a quick drop-out when we have knocked the ball dead. At the moment everyone see's it as an opportunity to get some air back in the lungs having just defended a set of 6 and runs the shot-clock right down. Why not get everyone on side asap then bang it into touch while the opposition are still jogging back into position, or alternatively let them get set in their usual positions on the 10 metre line and halfway line and only kick it 15-20 metres for one of our speedsters to run onto and try and collect ??
Nothing ventured....nothing gained !!

A lot on here are against him but those are the type of things I’d expect from Brough!

I actually said to me old man at the game at a point in the second half we had a scrum in our 20 and Shaul was up in the line...all it needed was a long punt down field and a luck of the bounce because if it was pre planned you’d basically have had Johnstone up against Fonua who would have had to have turned and started from a standing start!

Just because kicking straight from the scrum is an old fashioned idea it doesnt mean its a bad play especially with a speedy winger think last time wakey did it was when brough kicked through against catalans about 8 years ago

Remember Liam Finn chipping over the top against Catalan couple years back with Tom Johnstone going length of the field

Drinkwaters penalty fell short and Finn took the catsch and immediately put one towards TJs wing. Try of the season?