If we have six first teamers out, another six having fitness tests and Holdsworth passes the test and puts his hand up, would be brave to leave him out as a precaution in a game away at the top team. On paper we should have never been in the game,so arguably any doubtful players should have been left out for next week when we have a chance of some points. But on the other hand inviting a major drubbing on tv would also have been unpalatable.

Watching Hull with the ball in hand is like watching paint dry,

Pretty good defence though and bags of commitment



Another good game for Lineham, looks like you've got a good one there.

More facts sheldon.!

Thought holdsworth kicking was hit an miss, he did some poor and some good kicks.

We lack pace at halfback, Horne of a few years ago would work great with DJ, but he is the best we have at 6.

Thought the turning point was when we were winnin by 4 and just won a penalty, it was a chance to gt some pressure, Westerman dropped the ball on the 2nd tackle.

Just read PG view and it's hard to argue what he said.

Quality coaching,always have an excuse ready.!

One thing's for sure nobody could doubt the commitment of your boys tonight.

Quite an absorbing contest in which Hull played a full part.

Even so Huddersfield didn't need to play all that well to win. Hull scored 4 points all night plus the fluke when Horne tried to kick the ball and it came off his thigh.

Hull must find a cutting edge or all the effort in the world will be to no avail.

Is that also a fact?

Can you show me were he has used this excuse?

Our attack has barely improved over the last eight years or so. We have a little bit more flair under Gentle but nothing to write home about.
A change of personnel over the years but still no great improvement in attack, why?
Yes we're seriously missing another creative half to partner DJ. But I still don't think it'd be enough to make a huge difference. Our two first choice centres aren't skilful only Crooks can claim to be skillfull with ball in hand. Still slow at getting the ball out wide and look lost most of the time with a lack of runners.

Hudds played well, only 2 mistakes, kicked well and defence was excellent.

Hull apart from a couple poor defensive errors reduced hudds attacking threat.

You really need to ask?

Halfbacks.

Very fair summary. Clearly a fit Holdsworth and Heremaia would help, but the issue is that our forwards and defensive efforts set a platform but lack of structure and runners in attack, regardless of who wears the pivot shirts, reduces our options from limited to almost zero. Our biggest threats seem to be Briscoe and Lineham running the ball off their own 20.

We've had some really good halves over the years. Dykes, Head, Long (although he barely played) but we've always played the same since 2006.
So surely it's not that simple is it. Can't be just down to the halves. Our structure has hardly changed, too one directional still and have no optional runners except the runner who's going to be recieving the ball.

No, Galea was bludging at marker, it was his man. Infact Galea's defence throughout was soft and was slow off the ground.

Bang on. We're still playing the same boring attacking Rugby we played under Agar.

We have no spark, the only glimpses of it come from our two wingers. Why aren't we offloading anymore? We have absolutely no pace, so everything is done slowly.

It was Chris greens man. If splitting the blame 80/20in favour of green.
Jon wells picked it out n greens reaction said all that needed to be

The marker should be belting the dummy half there if I'm honest

We attack differently but our executions poor.

We have a very attack minded back 3 but never get them good ball.

No, it was Green.

We were not robbed. We played well, but have zero threat in the 20. As per last 5 seasons. We are therefore average as usual.

Great effort, good performances, but not good enough in attack. We should have won, with the possession we had.

Need to splash the cash next season for a top half back

This, except the defence is simply average.

But thats what happens when a club keeps opting for unproven assistants rather than going for proven experience

Ben Galea should have done a hell of a lot more to get out of marker and knock Shaun Lunt down. He just stood and watched as Lunt pushed Chris Green aside. Galea was poor all night. He ran one line, admittedly which we scored from, but he offers nothing. Everything we do is so lethargic and our attack has not improved in the past five or six years. I still like Peter Gentle and I trust him to turn things around but his post-match comments are the same as what we hear every week from him.

Galea was one of our better players IMO

it will help us to get Ellis back and running his lines but its not going to change the fact that we are so slow to get the ball through hands!
would be nice to make a thew breaks now and again as well. its agonizing to watch at the moment we just seem to let the better teams just keep piling pressure on until we eventually break down. we are really struggling to get a roll on and keep teams pinned in there 20 don't know how we are going to change that with the pivots we have tbh. just keeps showing every week that we need a classy 7 with pace!!

Hull played very well, and gave the Giants a good testing time tonight.
Play like that against most teams in the league and you will win.
You have to remember that we have a very good defensive record and Hull got over for 2 tries tonight which is no mean feat.