Ran hard and tackled pretty well - plenty of effort from the lad today. Certainly worth a place on the bench for the next couple of games ahead of Sam Moa.

Only snag is Agar.

have too agree thought he had a great game, hope he can keep that performance up!



a calderwood try ?????? what ever next?

played ace just hope agar let's him keep his place.

Because he's looked poor in the ressies.

Maloney was absolutely brilliant today.
In a team low on confidence, against some of Super League's best props, it shows how good the performance was.
Best Hull player by a mile, he should have been in the first team earlier.

have too agree thought he had a great game, hope he can keep that performance up! Laughing

a calderwood try ?????? what ever next?

He deserved it too did MC. Showed plenty of effort especially in the tackle. Old Balsawood is just starting to go up in my estimation.

Means buggar all, in my experience!

Impressed with him. Certainly not the biggest prop in the league but made up for it by playing above his weight. It's his big chance now up to him to take it. Well played lad.

Glad someone else mentioned him - was going to myself but am starting to sound like his stalker.

Did well again today IMO.

The Doyle was giving Maloney a lot of praise, seems a good bet for a start against Wakey

And mine. Outstanding today. Worked his nads off.

is this is first game? Hows he been playing for you?
Always thought he looked good when he played in the academy at Cas.

Debut today, was brilliant.
Not the biggest prop forward you'll ever see but very good in defence and make some good yards

great performance from maloney today, shame the other guys didnt play the same, but hey we were up against a class saints outfit who we just werent strong enough to handle

thought we was going to see a massive scoreline but against us, yeah it was 44-22 but we scored 4 tried at st helens which isnt to bad.

lets hope agar doesnt drop maloney

As others have said he was easily our best player today and given the Cusack injury it will give him the chance to shine.

That's encouraging and depressing in equal measure TBH.

I get what your saying however if we had played like we did today on Friday we would have won IMO.

I actually came away from the game thinking there was plenty of positives to take.

Really? What was the difference today in your opinion?

maloney looking promising, lets hope our coaching staff dont take this promise away from him and make him into another workmanlike second row!

I agree with you on both counts. Plenty of effort despite the lads clearly being fatigued from Friday. Saints were bigger and faster - we need to get our recruitment right in the next 3 years to improve the size and power of the team. Shorter term we looked better when we moved the ball and against many other teams we would have done enough today. Loads to work on but Friday was nowhere near as bad as the overreaction of some and today there were positives.

Must admit that, apart from us dropping the ball far too often, the radio coverage also sounded like we had improved over Friday's performance.

Here's hoping we can take some confidence from today and build on it.

It sounds encouraging but unless this performance is backed up with further improvement on Friday against Wakefield it will count for nothing. We need to win and stop the slide asap.

Its the kicking game which needs improving as yet again we giving Saints good field position off of the back of our poor kicking game.

Seems odd that we went away from the tactic Sharp always employed against Saints of kicking it dead which worked really well i thought.

Thought Washbrook made a massive difference today as he is such a smart footballer plus a running and passing threat which we lack when Radford starts at 13.

The off the ball running for the Calderwood and G.Horne try was very good but its a shame we had to go behind by so many points before we start actually spreading the ball out.

If you compared our sets from the first half when we were in Saints 20 to the sets in the second half it would look like a entirely different side.