Aaron Bower (Guardian & League Express) :
Not many people deserve a derby result like this more than Lee Radford. One of the nicest guys in the game and some of the questions being asked of him over the last six months were farcical at best. Top coach, top bloke.

Well today is another record to add to Radford's ever growing list.

Well you do have to respect a guys opinion who’s been following rugby league since 2012 , obviously knows more than the average life long hull fan . I don’t disagree that radfords one of the nicest guys in the game though

Well done lads, a great team performance. Everyone did their bit, never expected the end result at half time.
Mini back on form, 80 minutes I think?

Fair play, it was more a dig at Keith and Ruby, they were all over this forum last season and when we lose, but daren't come on here when we win.

You did to us what Warrington did to you once you got on a roll I knew it was going to be try after try and the way Saints and Wigan are going at it you might have a chance on Monday

Rovers could not handle Kelly. He took the game to them and they panicked every time he had ball in hand. Good performance from everyone but for me Kelly was the difference.

Cant help but laugh at all the deluded Rovers fans on their Facebook page saying they lost because of the ref. Embarrassing themselves.

He was brilliant. Like, really brilliant.

There's a reason he gets paid to watch the sport and we don't, so yes, his opinion does have independent analytical value.

Congratulations on a comprehensive win. Thought you got the best of the decisions when the game was up for grabs Hall might have been awarded a penalty try and yet not even a penalty was given.

In the end you made such debate irrelevant, well played.

i know rovers and thaler have a little bit of history going back a few years, but if they truly believe that they have more problems than i thought

fair play to you, frankie and rover2000 for fronting up (and any i missed), these are the decent rovers fans who give us stick at (most) times but, fair play, when things go against them they always come on and don't hide like other posters will, and you don't have to look very far back in this thread to see some notable examples

Astounding 2nd half from him. When not powering through the line he was up there gathering the kick that he'd sent up from 50 yards back. And his support play...

Is there a competition for places going on? Clever Radford.

Never expected that! The smoke bomb really helped Rovers get back into it



Hope tag avoids a ban.

Up to fourth and two points off second. Not too bad given some adversity thus far.

There may be some shuffling around come Monday evening but it's notable that we are above Wakefield in the table and behind Castleford only on points difference. Those two teams have been lauded (even by some on here) as having impressive starts yet only a couple of weeks ago some Hull fans were calling for Radford's head.

Funny old game, innit?

if you give then you have to take it ,there may be a few more of them to come ,be interesting to see how both teams go on monday after wire getting stuffed and saints playing well today

Haha, that was great. connor is pure quality and kelly obviously sits brooding on the bench until he's allowed on. Let's hope the wizard signs a long term deal

To give a penalty try you have to be certain that a try would have been scored without the foul play. There were a lot of Hull players in the vicinity who could have got there first, and even if Hall had got the ball he still had to ground it with defenders on him. It should have been a penalty for sure, but you just can't give penalty try for that.

Cheers for fronting up and giving credit.

One of the things I enjoyed about today's game, other than the score, was a relatively tidy ruck. Players were making an obvious effort to roll away and there was none of this moving off the mark and stepping over players to milk a penalty nonsense.

3 year deal I read.

Where have all the dummy runners come from?!
It’s like watching a different team.

We went 10 years searching for a quality half back, only to end up with three top class ones.
Sneyd is a big game player, Kelly is the best stand off I’ve seen play for Hull in 40 years of watching, and Connor is a supreme talent who can be anything he wants to be

Some unsavoury scenes with 10 minutes or so to go with a flare and bottles being thrown. Social media reporting a child hospitalised.

Thaler made clear early on any messing about wouldn’t be tolerated. Hope it’s a league wide crackdown.

Tbf, if you have been reading the same things as me, I doubted it's validity. My first thought was that it's highly unlikely that they would have had glass bottles in the ground. My second thought was that 86 stitches is a little excessive.