Gotta start with Smith at 9 next week and Balmforth, or even give Hodgson a shot, on the bench.
Coaching staff keep talking about Balmforth having things to work on, and fair enough I'm sure he does, but christ if none of them can see that Houghton ruins our attack more than helps it.
If rather see Balmforth making mistakes but learning from it than Houghton getting picked every week because of sentiment and watching us play at a snails pace.
I know we are short of leaders this year but making Houghton captain was a ridiculous move.

Jebson doesn't seem toget much game time. Must only have played 20 minutes max again tonight. But defensively he is very good. Doesn't ever seem to miss a tackle.

Houghton is looking every bit like a guy who has played 450 games in the middle of the pitch

I thought he showed up well. Looking g for the ball and supporting well. Was a it unlucky when Trueman threw the ball at him a couple of metres out

We’ve got to part ways with grix. Two of the worst sides in the league and been beaten by both. Give it to Ellis and Cummings until the end of the year. We can’t carry on with mediocrity and him be here next year.

Called for Jebson weeks back.

What i dont get is whys it taking an age for the penny to drop with houghton its been clear since he had his head wobble hes lost all intensity to be hulls hooker

Il repeat jebson in for lane, hodgson/smith/balmforth anyone in for houghton hes killing us

Hurry up cartwright

Cummings maybe assisted by Ellis. I don't see Ellis as a head coach

dont think he will
Just been singing Houghton praises
according to Grix Smith played his part nothing else said yet we could all see the difference
His outstanding players Moy,Trueman and Reynolds
Let it slip that Moy likely to be FC"s first choice full back in the next few years
Looks like Litten will be out end of the season

whilst i agree with you about Gaz plenty on here didnt see Burgess as a successful coach

Agree with both of you. Anyone better than the pub doorman

Said last season Houghton should have called it a day then.

Houghton will be knackered before he's 50. Probably need new knees just to be able to walk and christ knows how many head knocks he's taken In 450 matches

I want to see Morgan Smith start and do 60 minutes for us next game, just to shut people up. Let Houghton have the last 20 for a change.

Agree Houghton should have retired last season but .. the pack were dominated yet again. We are so weak at marker,
It’s criminal to keep conceding early tries through the middle.
Aydin & Chan aren’t good enough yet.
It looks likely we will lose Ese ese for some time.
We are going to need more than Balmforth if we are to get another win this season.

Counted at least 5 head high tackles made by our forwards, all different players as well. Two led to tries?

Don’t remember even getting a penalty all game. One 6 again near the end, that’s it?

Poor again, but masked abit by the last 15 minutes.

Grix just keeps making the same mistakes.

Dropping Walker is unbelievable
Sao in the backrow
Barron for Martin is strange
Starting Fash after months out
One man rugby for most of the game

And the big one, Houghton.

If this is how he thinks I'd be moving him on too.

Every single player we have signed for next season us better than than we had playing tonight and I include Hardraker in that.

Bring back relegation.

This isn't a go at Hull FC. It's just clear to me that not having it will allow clubs with a poor culture to coast along being e indefinitely. A bit of jeopardy is what is needed to focus minds. Otherwise you lot could end up watching awful RL forever.

With relegation at least this team would have something to play for. It’s clear a lot of them don’t value a win if it ‘means nothing’ in the grand scheme.

give no doubt the club have given up on this season with no relegation, had there been our side would look totally different and we wouldn't have only 2 quota players playing.

Saying that, it has stopped us going out and bringing in a couple of average overseas players and allowed gametime for the likes of Moy, Martin and Charles, I'd doubt they would have plated so many games had there been relegation.

Reading Grixs reason for Walkers dropping is madness, feels like he is been made a scapegoat like Hoy.

Seems we still have the situation where some players are untouchable whilst others are dropped as some as they underperform.

1 penalty & 1 six again. The penalty was for crossing/obstruction. Now either Castleford are the most disciplined team I’ve ever seen or…

As a poster previously stated, we get absolutely stung in behind the ruck every single time. As someone who has never played the game, why is this happening? Is it laziness? Poor communication? What causes us to concede so many from poor defending in that area?

was left out for playing reasons so a bit harsh of you. Good player but obviously not played well at London

A bit harsh from Grix, who was good against London.

Disagree re Barron. He has pace scored a try made, kicked well, carried well. Did lose the ball in one carry and Moy took any high kicks but think he will go well as he gets older