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

Deary me.

I'm pleased to see Agar publicly supporting Lauaki. At the same time I'm also pleased to notice that he recognised he has a fiery temperament and other teams will play to that. If I was Agar I'd sit Lauaki down and show him some old videos of Trevor Skerrett playing, especially one of a 1980s semi-final against Cas. IIRC Keith England had given James Leuluali a bit of a roughing up, Skerrett waited his time and hit Beefy with one of the most perfectly timed tackles I'd ever seen. Even a packed Elland Road could hear the "ooooooommmmmmpppphhhhh" as all the air was knocked out of England's lungs.

There's a lot to be said of the old adage: "vengeance is a dish best served cold".

Don't look to retaliate straight away, be patient and wait you time, it will come and when it does, give it back in spades

It's OK mate, he's only peeved because it remains a distant aspiration to him

I know what you are saying but sometimes it is hard to control and with the added emotion of a big derby game it will have been even harder. Forgetting the Derby he has controlled himself reasonably well this season.

I would like to see some of the poster get an elbow in they face,and being head butted and they neck bent back whilst two other are holding them.. and see what they would do..What people should remember he wasn't sent off reason the ref knew he was getting ruffed up ..To me if you dish it out expect to get it back .. If you don't like it play netball

The illegal hit were not just on Lauaki Longy got his share R Horne got a beauty when he was on the floor being held ..The only problem was Lauaki didn;t hit out hard enough