....but did anyone else notice that Heremaia had the Magners logos on his shirt taped over?

Anyone know why?

Bring on September and 2013!!

What a totally inept, pathetic display that was.
Seymour was anonymous
Manu didn't try
Briscoe was pathetic
Totally embarrassing

Heremaia played like he was one of the only players who haden't been on the cider all day!

This is possibly the first time I have ever agreed with what the sky s are saying. Million miles from play off quality

yep didnt look at the races tonight

Let's hope widnes have got very good on that pitch, and we could not get to grip with it at all, and to be fair it did look awkward as , players couldn't seem to change direction without sliding , I'm sure wildnes must of got used to that over the season, have wildnes been hammered on that pitch this year?

I love how everyone is doing the exact opposite of the thread title.

When SKY are writing you off you know you're shocking, normally they are tipping any old bunch of no hopers for the Grand Final to try and get some hype going.

Weather was decent today.

After watching the game on sky, got to say well done to widnes.. They seemed more up for it then we was. We looked tired from the 1st minute.

Pitch looked awkward but guess that's widnes strong point at home

i certainly wont forget this match sorry. without doubt the worst attitude from an fc team i can remember since the days of peter walsh's reign. think we completed 2/3 sets in second half. we couldnt even cart the ball up with 1 man rugby for 5 then kick.
i cant blame the pitch for our handling as we catch the ball with our hands and we lost so much ball when it was in our hands.
i cant blame the pitch for allowing so many offloads in 2/3 man tackles.
i cant blame the pitch for those suposed to be playing in the halves and been invisible
i cant blame the pitch for poor discipline

hopefully its just a bad/atrocious day at the office. good job they dont earn their money by selling dvds of the matches lol they would be some starving mouths over the next 2 weeks.

2 weeks to get players fresh and eager to dedeem themselves
i cant blame the pitch players been unable to keep a basic defensive line especially out wide

Forgetting the performance tonight......

our chance of finishing higher than 6 was unlikely and top 4 was gonna need a miricale of results to go our way. it'll be 7th of 6th for us and most likely we will be playing Huddersfield

we've got 2 weeks till Bradford, players will be back and should be fresher, lets actually forget that performance and let that be the last poor performance of the year

Impossible to forget tonights performance,as we were totally inept in All areas.Play off rugby,the rest of the top 8 will be quaking in thier boots if they get us.

Wonder why sky didnt mention widnes having ten missing tonight,they were quick enough to mention it when it was hull.!

As said, really disappointed with the attitude tonight.

Surely when professional players play throw away the ball like that and make such dumb decisions, the only explanation is that they are not switched on, they are not playing with the required intensity.

Pointless to single out individuals, who we would like to get rid of etc, not least because some of the worst culprits are supposedly some of our best players! The only thing individually is that we may be lacking direction and in particular leadership.

Really like Gentle but it is his job to eradicate this sort of performance, if Agar had presided over that, a (virtual) lynch mob would be out now.

We had three and a half years of that under Agar.

tonights performance was worse than any under agars leadership.
How can the coach not sense the players attitude in build up to the game.. These are professional players
who should have pride in their performance.
The annoying thing is we will beat bradford n cas and forget about tonights shambles !

So what should we do, cry about it for another few weeks? We played poor and lost. Onwards we go.

No it wasn't.


Didn't bother listening to his post match interview then?

What a pathetic excuse

No mate,I was too busy looking where my dummy had landed,what did he say?
(Apart from "We were s***e"icon_wink.gif

This Is the only thing I've found off the beeb -

Hull FC coach Peter Gentle:
"It was disgraceful and the most inept performance I have seen for a long time.
"Our completion rate in the second half was only 39% and we went from bad to worse.
"We weren't anything like a top-four side out there today and are kidding ourselves if we think that.
"We have a lot of work to do. We had no respect for the ball and no defence to back it up. It was embarrassing and not up to standard."

Yes I noticed that and not a clue why, thought at first maybe they weren't sponsoring us anymore and we'd covered it over but he was the only one!
Shocking lackluster display, maybe a blessing before they play off's, i remain ever hopeful

He said it was the worst performance he'd seen by any side at this level of the game. He also said that the players 'lacked respect for the ball' and expected to 'do it easy'. Under questioning he added that the coaching staff had 'caught a sniff' of this attitude early in the week and tried to address it.

He was as pi$$ed off as I've ever heard him. Offered no excuses whatsoever and laid the blame on the playing and coaching staff. Talked at length about how much work they had to do over the next two weeks and how he didn't want to go into the 'semi-finals' (playoffs) and be embarrassed. Mentioned that on last night's performance we simply didn't deserve to be there.

I know it sounds unlikley, but is he a muslim ? I know that muslim cricketers on tv have any alcohol sponsors taped over. Thats the only other time i've seen it happen.