Serious elbow injury and in Hull Royal apparently. Moa, Radders and Tansey all with knocks as well.



Tansey and Horne in the halves please with Whiting at FB.

Luckily we have Tansey unlike previous seasons so Longy being out shouldn't impact us as much as when Dykes was out however it's still a big blow when you consider we're coming into a month of games we could win but will be close e.g. Bradford/Wakey/Hull KR. Don't want to speculate untill we know for sure how long he'll be out.

Looked a bad one , I would like to see tansey play there with horne when he's back and not moving turner who is playing really well at centre

Looked bad and i would be surprised to see him back this season.

Agree.....

Agar said he hopes to have him back before the end of the year but who knows at this stage.

Agree with that option, Calders back so wing sorted...

Could mean december though.

I would say "unbelievable" but of course with our luck it's all too believable.

It's a massive loss and hugely ironic with Horne due back next week.

Tansey and Horne for me too.

Agar say anything about Ogre + Fitz ? Missed both of them tonight

It'll be Horne and Washbrook in the halves.

I want Tansey and Horne but i just can't see it happening.

Only if you're a mediocre female American singer/songwriter.

Please take your singer songwriter jokes to another board, this is about Long. You would think Mods would know better

www.hullfc.com/hullfc/contents/?p=6340 Out for season, almost definitely.

www.hullfc.com/hullfc/contents/?p=6340 Out for season, almost definitely.

I think the phrase rhymes with "clucking bell".

Christ - sounds pretty cagey about Fitz too.

Bad luck? Give over. The signing of Long was always a huge gamble.

Long will miss more games than he plays, this season, next season and any other season you decide to keep paying him.

It's what happens to players in their twighlight. Not just Long, everyone.

That's why you'll also regret paying top dollar for another year of Fitzgibbon. He's missed a few this time but you ain't seen nothin yet. It's inevitable and if it wasn't these 2 players would still be wanted at their previous clubs wouldn't they? There's a time to get rid and there's always some mug willing to pick up the tab.

Great players? Undoubtedly. But not as good as Roger Millward or Knocker Norton - and all 4 have similar playing futures in front of them.

Don't feed the troll.

Seconded.

Just crawl back under your rock or prison door

Bloody Willie Manu's fault as well. Longy went to line up a tackle and Manu came in with the big smash behind him, which was totally unnecessary (and didn't even get the tackle done). Could have happened to anyone.

As much as it was Manu who did cause the injury, to say it was unnecessary is daft. He was tackling as he always tackles on kick chases.

Hope he makes a speedy recovery.

To barge through your own player to put a shot on is daft, and has cost us our half-back. Could have easily made a more technical tackle (which he also does, he doesn't always put on big shots) as he had time to line up the man (as well as time to see Long was there).

There's a time and a place for big hits. Unfortunately this wasn't one of them.

Yes it was. Or, at least, it could've been. He didn't go through Long, Long put his arm across the Catalans player (Carlaw, bizarrely on the wing, I think) just as Manu was making the hit. No blame can be apportioned for that. Manu regularly stays a couple of yards back from the first chaser so he can come forward and meet the kick-returner as they're slowing and bracing for the impact from the first man (Long, in this case). It was just unfortunate that Long had his arm across in exactly the wrong spot.