watched the recording of the game when i got home.clarky and the other 2 muppets harping on about the 56 points we let in,but no mention of the missing 7 or 8 first choice players missing.then clarky comes out with "hull should be embarrased to have to borrow a fullback"don`t other teams borrow players when the are hit with injuries.?always new he had one of pooles of wigan rubbish pies for a brain.

They are muppets, however although we did suffer a lot of injuries which clearly had a detrimental impact it is all about a squad at this level. A lot of teams suffer injuries the difference is the top clubs have depth in their squads, hopefully AP, Bomber and Gentle will go some way to rectifying this for the future.

The bias is shocking. They all hate Hull but who gives, so does everyone else. It will all just make it so much sweeter when we start dominating SL in the near future

To be fair Eddie did pull him up on the "embarrassing" bit, putting the blame, indirectly, on the underinvestment in youth before Pearson.

I look forward to the next time Wigan have an injury crisis and have no suitable kids to play. Presumably Phil will encourage them to play with 15 or 16 to avoid the embarrassment he clearly feels is linked to loan players

I read on a here after the Leeds game that one of the muppets was still banging on about "we still haven't played anyone" when he realised the game was won.
When if he'd engaged brain he'd have realised that with the exception of Catalans, WE HAVE !!

Would have been beautiful if someone on the panel not on a anti Hull agenda could have brought that to his attention.

even on the super league show before kick off against leeds,dave woods says hull had week off last week,but leeds had a draining cup tie against salford.no one sems to like giving hull credit.

Don't usually mind Phil Clarke TBF but his comment during the commentry of "I don't know why Hull are so bothered about losing Manu, they got him from Cas anyway" really annoyed me. What does it matter where we got him from? The fact is we are losing a quality player, I noticed Stevo was quick to tell him so.

Which will make it all the more sweeter when we are successful

Nope. Stevo said something along the lines of "some people said they hadn't played anyone yet - well they're just about to beat the Champions!" or similar. It was a compliment. Sort of.

Who cares?

I honestly couldn't give a flying one about how much 'credit' we get from the Sky team or anyone else for that matter. The only thing that counts is winning games and, eventually, silverware. If we do that then the carpers will look increasingly stupid and we can all have a good laugh at their expense. Bonus.

The longer we fly under the radar ..the better imo

Turner, Yeamo, Horne, Seymor, Mark O, Eamon O, Aspinwall, Heremaia, Westerman. Thats nine if my maths is correct. Most Hull fans know we would give anybody a game with a near full side out but to loose nine is a big ask of anybody.

Did make me laugh when leeds were getting beat they showed Burrow and Hauraki sat on the bench commenting on how they had big stars out. NOBS the lot of em. Apart from Carney.

TBH I don't usually give two hoots what the Sky Commentary Team think about us, I usually have a good laugh but I thought that was a pretty stupid comment to make from Phil Clarke....we have injuries, what is the embarrassment in that? Also why be embarrassed that Wade went home? Should everyone who brings in a loan player have to be embarrassed for doing so? I bet Rovers weren't embarrassed when they brought in Charnley, it did him the world of good.

Loaning players benefits three fold, the club who are in a pickle and need a player quickly, benefitting the player getting first team experience and benefitting the club the loan player came from as their player is getting more and more game time experience.

Absolutely nothing to be embarrassed about and a crass comment to make.

As for the "why bother about Manu he came from Cas" comment was he

because I still have no idea what that was supposed to mean

As a Rovers fan, I also found some of Clarkes comments bizzare.
Embarrassed to loan players??? It's unfortunate that for a lot of teams its a neccasary evil. My favorite was the Willie Manu was only from Cas one. Did make me laugh. What does it matter where you sign a player from, its how he performs that counts, I wonder what Cas fans thought about it lol.
It has been quite amusing reading this whole thread and the Millwall chants of 'no one likes us but we don't care' lol.

i know how bizarre was that?? does that mean anyone who comes from Cas are crappp???????
Clarke was a great player but as a pundit really does get bogged down in utter tripe facts and figures that no one else gives a toss about but then on ocassion does show his true colours like he did in that one Manu sentence!!! and the statememnt about the wigan youngster.

You know i guess he is just another wigan fan who done good and as such is biggotted which is ok by me in reality because with the tweedle dee and tweedle dum sky sports duo of stevo and hemmings he provides light relief..

think about it
Clarke.. a frustrated ex player trying to look cool but clearly anti hull fc and always has been
Stevo.. lived his life off the back of a world cup winners medal and spouts about the biff all time yet was one of the worst offenders when a player....
hemmings.. used to be the window cleaner at red hall
the shouting idiot... another frustrated ex player who cant do a report without nearly orgasming due to shouting so much.

all in all the aussie press got it right when they called it , commentary by monty python

what ever they say, we thumped Leeds and neither the sky team, red hall or GH can change that...........

I don't think he was saying Cas are crap, he was trying to yet again have a dig that we didn't develop Manu we took him from Cas and therefore we shouldn't be upset when he leaves us. Either way it was a stupid comment.

To be fair to Clarke, he had a pop at Wigan the night before for playing Gelling on the wing and not a youngster.

I don't believe they're biased, and certainly don't believe they hate Hull (only a paranoid person with an inferiority complex would keep bringing that up).
I just think they're stupid and are trying to be controversial. The Willie Manu comment even had Eddie scratching his head, that's how stupid it was!

I don't know of any club with such depth that you could take 9 players out of their best 17, play them against two top four teams in consecutive weeks, and expect them to do a great deal better than we did.

think this bias towards certain teams has gone on for ages.....unless a team outside the fab four wins it, it will continue, what you need is an nrl type of thing happeneing, ie: a team getting the wooden spoon one year then winning the comp the next, unfortunatly for SL..i cant see that ever happening as the entire game is set up so the big teams win...shocking really...

I must admit, I am glad we've now reached the point where that can't keep being dragged out, it was getting tiresome. As you say, we've now played everyone barring Catalan, and even with the games in hand played for all clubs we'd be a minimum of 5th.

He is right, we should be embarrased.

Or a point behind Wigan if we had already played Cats and won there.It really does annoy and amaze me when they all keep harping on that we have not played anyone, but with a bit of homework the muppets would of noticed that we have already beaten both of last seasons grand finalists.

I thought the same thing there actually, with Horney, Westerman and Heremaia sat in our injury bench.

They're just a bunch of prats.

As well as taking a point off the minor premiers. In fact, if you just look at head-to-head results between last season's playoff teams we're level with Warrington and only a point behind Hudds and Catalan.

I think the points raised by Clarke and Cullen the week before are valid. On saturday only Crooks and Houghton were Hull lads and a city the size of Hull should be embarrassed by our failure to produce Super League quality players.It is nothing new as in the glory days of the 80s we had 4 Kiwis and an Aussie in the backs and a predominantly West Yorkshire pack. I don't know why we do not produce good players locally but ultimately we need a pipeline of up and coming local lads to balance the salary cap. If we recruit highly paid Aussies or pay transfer fees for talented English lads from other clubs we will not have enough quality players within the cap.