Well, that was better than last year.



O'Meley played a shedload of minutes today - what a warrior he is. A horrible completion rate in the first half and not fantastic quality, but once we cut the errors out we looked pretty comfortable. Good effort by Dowes today as well. And better from Tansey who's been a bit ordinary of late. Lovely interception from Long and quite funny at the end when he packed down with the Cas forwards.

I'm sorry but whatever you think of Agar and the coaching staff they will be practising these things.

In fact I know they do

Agar's just been on Blunderside and said he played 67 minutes and could probably have managed 77 if needed. Tremendous signing.

In that case there are only two possible conclusions...

1. We're doing the wrong drills.
2. Hall and Briscoe are as stupid as stumps.

we have to be more careful with him IMO.

But my point is that they're obviously doing something wrong as it's not getting across to the players in question.

Would you not agree that neither Hall nor Briscoe have shown any improvement in their defensive decision-making and positional play over the last 2 years? That really should not be the case.

Absolutely boiling and couldn't believe it - came off for Sam on about 25 minutes then seemingly 5 minutes later came back on for Dowes. I've got used to seeing him come back on on 55 minutes and rip into the opposition so felt a bit cheated



Oh, and a big rap to the FC away support today. Massive following

Precisely. I just don't accept that they can't learn anything no matter what the coaching staff have tried. The only other possibility is that they won't listen, in which case they should be moved on.

It may be that with no game next week he played longer than might otherwise have been the case.

Frustrating to concede late tries again but it's a fine win and given the conditions I don't think we can be too hard on the team for the lapses.

Our first back to back away wins in just over a year.

I was once again impressed by how together the team felt, always congratulating, consoling and backing each other up, it was great to see today

upto 4th only 2 points behind saints , agar out thats what i say

It was boiling..Fantastic following from the faithful..

Brilliant moment when Longy packed down with Cas

Well done to the Faithful today, atmosphere made it feel like we were at home!!

Well played lads, up to fourth and some big players to come back in for us!

Bring on Saints!!!!

I was sweating buckets for the last ten minutes,don`t know if it was the weather,or the tension.

shame we conceded the last two tries, gave a closer scoreline than the game was, but in that heat we can hardly complain and both teams deserve a lot of credit

we need to keep better ball control, maybe it was the heat at times, teams like saints will punish us more if we cough up possession in our own half like today

Rubbish, Cas had about 4 on 1 and he went to try and pat it down but missed, if he had stayed on his wing it wouldn't have made any difference.

Good result, not a great performance, but in that heat, they are all warriors and deserve priase. Didn't think Briscoe was that bad, but would have to re watch to see.
Hall put a monster tackle in near the close to seal it!

So what I said in the second part of my post then?

Assuming we're talking about the same incident, both Blunderside and KCFM had it down as a defensive misread. Just goes to show how things appear different to different people.

Considering the weather I think both sets of players deserve credit.It was hot just watching the game.The players must have been knackered towards the end.No wonder we stuttered a bit when Dowes went off.

Great turn out by your fans today as usual



I know alot of Hull fans like The Jungle (Wheldon Road),is it because you are close to the action,or does the Princess Street stand remind you of the old threepenny stand or both?

Anyway best of luck with rest of the season

Always like going to the Jungle, it has the atmosphere of a good old fashioned rugby ground.And I don`t mean that to be disrespectful.
For some reason I have always had a soft spot for Cas,except when playing us of course!

Yes, it was the the comments by Humberside I was refering to as rubbish, not your post.

We were well stretched and Briscoe tried to attack the ball which in that situation was the right call imo, he almost got there but missed it by inches. Had he stayed in the line I have no doubt the try would have been scored anyway, it would have just taken an extra pass.

Things like this are why it's so hard to defend on the fringes, and why wingers in particular tend to cop a lot of flak from fans. Be interesting to see what it looks like on the highlights.

Just out of interest,anybody see what started the handbags with Fitz?
I only saw it halfway through proceedings.