Oh and as pathetic whinges go, I remember Morgans after a Wire game ''four broken jaws, it's unfair, thuggery'' etc etc

Passion and aggression are one thing we all love to see, but dirty cheap shots and illegal tackles by HKR spoilt the occasion and u got your just desserts because of it. Hull were outstanding in defence and given another 80 minutes your lot still wouldnt of scored..

We never lost the game due to agression or a slight knock on, we lost the game due to slow hand sin passing and a lack of options in attack. We made it very easy for Hull to defend their line (which has been evident in most of our games this year) and to FC's credit they did it well. The pens (although you may say petty) where due to leg pulls and holding down, as you point out the number of them was high, which begs tyhe question why wasn't anyone binned for constant offences.

Back to Lauiki, which bit of my original post do you think was wrong, if the guy doesn't learn he'll get slaughtered by the refs this year, suppose you were all calling to be bottom of the fair play league this year, with him you might just have found your key to that goal.

Yup, agree with this.

If you had played rugby, moved the ball out wide and kicked to the corners instead of niggling and trying to beat us up you may well have won. Morgan clearly got his game plan wrong.

I agree with you about Lauaki. He now has an (undeserved) reputation and will be targeted by opponents and closely watched by referees. Its up to him and the coaching staff to address his attitude and self-discipline if he is to be more of an asset than a liability.

Well done Agar for backing him. I hope Hame continues to play in exactly the same way he has being doing, defending himself when he needs to.

The only people to blame are Lauaki himself, and to a lesser degree, the refs.

The refs need to give the guy some protection, constant niggling/cheap shots that aren't being penalised would begin to wind any player up.

Ultimatley it's Lauaki himself who needs to keep his cool and get some self disclipline. In every game he's played he's been shown up as an easy guy to wind up.

I don't blame Rovers one bit for trying to get a reaction from him. If Lauaki played for Rovers I'd expect our players to go out there and wind him up, gaining penalty after penalty, as it's so easy to do.

What a load of old tosh. You cannot pick up one thing for losing a game unless that thing happened in the dying seconds. If you had scored the last quarter of the game would have been a different game.

As for Agars comments I agree with them and Lauaki has not really got such a bad record regarding penalties.

Totally agree. Deserves credit for publically backing his player as a good coach should, and in a way that comes across well IMO.

We had enough field position to put the game to bed, we seem incapable of moving the ball out wide (at pace) and having meaningful kicks to the corners this year. In games in which we have been far less intense in we have still failed to score many points, and thats against far worse sides definsively than FC.

I'm sure if you had warrington and we had quins it would have been different.

What do you win for achieving the same as us with easier fixtures????

If you argue that FC are a far superior side than KR making the 2 rounds more comparable, I will give you that one.

What he said.



Enjoyed this thread, especially the bit "we lost the game from a SLIGHT knock-on"

Priceless

Is this the same player that hit Dobson late, twice in the friendly?

Well done Agar for backing him.

Especially like the comment about the 'accidental' elbow to his head.

How can a knock on be 'slight'? It's either knocked on or it isn't. It's like saying it was a 'slight' try, or a 'slight' 40/20.

You lot lost, get over it. We were the better team, you could not penetrate our awesome defence, and the only way you could handle Lauaki was to either albow him in the tackle in his head, head butt him, drag his neck back, or have 3-4 men on him and still a late man comes on with the elbow! He still knocked half of them on their s!

Well done Agar for defending him, saying exactly the truth.

not the only one!!

You also won a game with a not so slight knock on against Cas, do you want it all your own way all the time?

I really don't think FC fans should be talking about the easier fixtures this year..

But Saints was

The part of Agars article that concerns me is that he seems to be under the impression that Lauaki can count to 10.

Clearly cheap shots are popular in east hull

As long as he can count to 6 thats all that matters

Isn't the point here that Lauaki did actually prove to be a big distraction for Rovers during the game? Singling a player out for rough treatment by definition means you take that energy away from other parts of your game. So perhaps when Newton says he "refuses to apologise" for these rather transparent tactics, it's the Rovers fans he should be apologising to as they played a part in Hull's victory.

yes he did, and if he keeps jumping up fists flying then hell keep getting illegily hit, lets face it, the guy is an animal, teams are gonna do whatever they have to do to get the better of him, and if that means play for a reaction then thats what they will do, what team wouldnt?

no you lost because we scored MORE points than you