At least Watson's found a hat that fits .

Other than a blow out score I thought tonight’s performance had echos of the performances that have been dished up from July on wards for the past few seasons, which is a concern.

Let's not bag Litten too much. He's been very good in recent weeks, tonight not so much. That happens with young players.
There are plenty of senior players to get stuck into.

We don't seem to ever really use Litten on the shift plays - most teams use their full back to create the overlap but we don't - makes us a bit predictable with drop offs and coming back on the angle

And it's still worth remembering Litten isn't actually our 1st choice full back. Possibly not even 2nd choice considering Shaul has been preferred to him a couple of times this season snd maybe would have been again if he wasn't injured.

Fair comment as he’s only young and still very green at this level. Don’t think he got much help/support from his team mates tonight in terms of the poor overall performance.

He didn't seem to get a lot of cover under the high kicks, felt like there always at least 2 or 3 Huddersfield players pressuring him.

Poor performance, if the club have some signings it might be a good idea to announce one or two next week to cheer us up again as 2023 is unfortunately over

Very flat and nervy performance.
As with this playing group over previous seasons it’s between their ears that needs sorting out.
As an aside though , sky really pee me off. Yes it was poor quality game but post match all they talk about is Huddersfield

Hes alot to learn, Smith will know that.

Its a perfect example of why you shouldnt always throw youngsters in for the sake of it. Tonight we had no choice, im surehe will have more good then bad, positional play comes with experience.

Tindall and Ashworth won't cheer me up. Quite the opposite.

Whilst I dont think it was the reason we lost, Huddersfield seemed to have lightning quick line speed all night. They were numurous occassions they where clearly offside.

How Peat didn't give a set restart again basically every tackle he was in, I have no idea! Also, Mcintosh wasn't tackled after that break, poor call from the officials

Our build needs to start with the pack. If your pack isn't good enough you win nowt. We need 2 props a hooker and a second rower minimum. Smith IMO will know this and we have to trust him. We all knew it wasn't an easy fix.

The officials were as bad as both teams for me.

As I said earlier a shocking advert for Super League and really showed how poor the standard is this season.

Poor performance tonight but I thought Hudds deserved to win. We can play better as we’ve seen recently but my expectations aren’t particularly high given our current squad.

Some real brain farts on the pitch tonight as we seemed to lack leadership and direction. Hopefully we pull something special out the bag to make the playoffs

Dumb performance l, think they were there for the taking, just too loose amd wrong options taken.

Really don't see the point in playing Dywer amd Lovodua again, you can't fault either players effort, but Dywer is so dumb and Lovodua just isn't good enough.

That was diobolical.
Passing for passing sake. No go forward to speak of. It was like we had no forwards on the pitch

Huddersfield not that good. We were just even worst.

Very lateral with no real shape or runners.
It’s possible the full bench won’t be with us next year.

Had a feeling that might have happened tonight. Work in progress.

Hull FC are like this website.
Splutter and stop start inconsistency!

We can’t get a new team but FFS could we please start our own Fans forum , perhaps with the Club via the Hull FC offical website ?

This RLfans is a absolute joke with their ads and pop ups.
I have adblock but the bastuds still get me

anyways there’s my rant about FC being the same as this website

looks good but a nightmare !

After a couple of patchy performances I thought a week off would do us good and set us up for a play off push. Not to be. Not for the first time a week off seems to set us back which is worrying as there is another one coming up after Wakefield.

Some really flat performances last night and Smith has one hell of a rebuild on his hands.

To be fair, I think TS has mainly achieved the targets for this set of players, this season:
¶ Avoid relegation - achieved
¶ Reconnect support and club - achieved / ongoing
¶ Avoid blow out scores - achieved so far
¶ Develop whole club playing style and young players - ongoing
¶ Commence rebuild of first team squad-ongoing (2 seasons?)
¶ Gap between best and worst performance narrowed - partly achieved / ongoing

A play off spot would be nice but an over achievement.

Woke up hoping I’d dreamed that absolute show. Probably unfair to bag individuals but Dwyer, Lovodua, and Lane shouldn’t be playing in SL. Satae had one of his CBA games, and Ligi was trying too hard to go sideways.

Will say I like Litten as he has a knack for getting away with fumbles. Rather have lucky than unlucky players in my squad!



Jam next season folks… or maybe the season after.

Disappointing performance.
The first PTB set the tone, for the remainder of the 80 minutes, our mentality and attitude was not up to our usual standard.. We lacked composure in attack, with Dwyer it's hardly surprising. Clifford's gone off the boil since he announced he's returning to the NRL. In defence, not enough tackles around the bootstraps for mine. Personally I'd like to see Balmforth and Staveley (fitness permitting) given a chance.
For mine, the team lacked enthusiasm, maybe due to no replacement for Griffin, this attitude maybe derived from the hierarchy, not bringing in a loaned player, showing no desire to aim for a play off spot. Evans and Griffin have both gone , and no short term replacement have arrived.

Let's see how our attitude is, against a team fighting for survival.

Overall I’d say a disappointing loss that could very easily have been a win if only we’d tidied our attack up. We made some strange decisions all night in both defence and attack- but mainly in attack. Truey and Cliff seemed a little disconnected tonight and that might have something to do with Hudds having a quick line and closing Cator down who is the link man. Thought Litten had a quiet game but you get inconsistencies with youngsters. Satae and Dwyer were really disappointing and we lost any sort of direction when Houghton went off- we need a real leader in the mould of Houghton to come in to the team next year if Houghton decides to retire.

Need to focus on next week quickly, I wouldn’t blood any youngsters Unnecessarily next week as I feel the pressure will be on and any errors or poor play will result in the home crowd becoming quickly frustrated- which I’ve seen happen a numerous amount of times.