Spot on RG

Is it simply an age thing?

Our forwards are all under 30 and seem to be able to just keep going

Do you think having players like Galea, O'Meley, Ellis, Lynch actually hampers you?

Yup.
Not great when Ogre has been our best go forward option and even he knows his body is packing up and he's nearly shot.

Not when you have Watts, Houghton and Westerman.

It's about size, not age. We have plenty of younger forwards but no big ones.

Judging by last night Richard Agar

Should have give him a new contract, and he was my mate.

One thing I can't quite understand is, we haven't been a good attacking team since 2004 which is what 9 years ago when Shaun McRae was in charge. During that era we was arguably one of the top 3 attacking teams in the country. From that era we only have Yeaman and Horne left. Now we have a coach who came from arguably one of the best attacking teams in the world, West Tigers. We have brilliant offensive players such as McDonnell, Briscoe, Crooks, Lineham, Holdsworth, Ellis, Westerman, Heremaia and Houghton. Yet we haven't improved at all, our attack is still slow, crap PTB, can't spread the ball with any pace and as soon as Tickle is back in the team we end up applying the boring old drop off.
We're clearing panicking due to lack of ideas.

Currently have the 3rd worst in attack, only Salford and London have a worse attack than us. Shocking.

this size thing, i posted this earlier,but i like repeating myself lol, lynch watts westerman,ellis ,green,are all over 6 foot and big guys, throw in orge tickle and we have the size there, we are just not running our weight up front atm

d kirmond last night for wakey the perfect example,not as big as our pack but boy he looked it when he took the ball up and ran hard,

Its the hair and beard combo

His length of the field pursuit of Crooks deserved a round of applause from us all yet he got s in the south stand jeering when he got injured doing so. Great player with a great attitude.

Just wondering how much input Shaun McRae has as Director of Rugby??

Does Gentle tell him what positions need strengthening and then McRae fills the position or does PG say who he wants and SMc just does the business?

Does he have any input as to what happens on the field?

I fear the spectre of behind the scenes disharmony. Something seems to have slipped with the teams morale, and the backslapping of earlier in the season has disappeared. McRae vs Gentle. Don't know. Something is going wrong though, and Gentle needs to address it methinks.

Sack 'em both.
Karl Harrisons your man.

what to play in the pack

Lol only Crooks and Lineham can be talked of as 'brilliant offensive' as form stands and its Crooks who has been carrying the team. I think your taking the p**s with the other players you have mentioned!

Fully agree. As good as Ferres but not getting the love-in IMO.

Tbf I shouldn't have used 'brilliant'. Good was more apt.

Have to say that Gentle was spot on with his comments after last night . The effort and commitment were there but it was the execution that was lacking. There were far too may miss timed runs which resulted in obstructions/lost balls. Miller does look like a good prospect if given time. There will always be individual errors in a game like Shannon's , Fox scored 2 tries but was at fault when he knocked on before Crook's second. Gentle is doing ok but needs a bit more help from your experienced players.

Nothing wrong in my eyes. He's a good coach and Pearson said he'd like to have a run in the cup and a crack at the playoffs this year. People are quick to get out their pitch folks and fire when were having a bad spell. Would so many have been crying if we had lost the last 3 to Wigan Leeds and Warrington? I doubt it very much. I also think its disgusting to boo your own team off the pitch. No player goes on to play badly or lose a game. I have no doubt they will turn this around and finish well. A lot of hard work is required and a bit of the luck we had in our good run but im sure it will come. Won't stop me going to the cup game in Catalan. Thats the problem with a lot of FC fans, its not the players that are arrogant, its the fans. Our fans think they are owed a top 4 finish. Get real and get behind the team instead of creating a culture where defeat is met with rapturous boos and slagging off of coach decisions and instead rake defeat on the chin withbthe fact we were not good enough and have faith they will put it right. I think the Exiles game came at the wrong time for us. We needed to get back on the horse straight after the Catalan game but had to wait nearly 2 weeks. Im sure this had a bearing on the players mentality and theyre still suffering slightly from that. Im sure a hard week and a decent performance against the Gianta awaits.

Correct, well said.

Your entitled to your opinion but I think there is something wrong..

It's not as if its a "one off" that we played badly, it's most games, we have played more bad than we have good this year.

I can take a loss like most people but its how we are losing that's annoying.

And with regards being owed a top 4 finish I think most fans expect to be in the top 6, you can't really blame the fans when AP and PG told us all how good a team we are and that AP himself expects results.

To be fair, the team never got jeered off after the Wigan defeat. It's the manner of getting beat that hurts the fans.
Hull fans are passionate and they can't have it all ways.
I'm sure AP will be equally unhappy with the performance. I hope he is anyway as he doesn't seem to be someone who settles for mediocrity.

Do we do 'mediocrity'?
Very good or dog turd has been the way forward so far this season.