Why do they have a Hull KR fan on the radio?

I know. Some of us need to chill the fook out.

Exactly !!


It is early but having now seen every side a couple of times, we are miles away from Wire, Saints, Cats, Wigan, Hudds and Leeds. We are in a fight for 7th place (again) and it will be a long season.

If we have an average or slightly above average amount of injuries, we will be screwed because our squad of forwards is embarrassingly thin.

Gentle has "bigged up" our youngsters but it seems obvious to me that he isn't that keen to actually play them when it matters.

Me neither considering the ball goes in at 2nd row, wtf happened there, I know at under 12s we encourage them to push but surely we never fell for that schoolboy error twice

Correct. Arguably we've put a marker down tonight, and it's a poor one. In the short term, this sort of result is hardly likely to entice the floating voter to the KC for the Wakefield game either. Tonight was an opportunity to build some momentum at a team we beat easily last season, and it was blown. Disappointing.

I agree , I was just trying to find out the penalty count for each team we've played so far . Not sure on tonight , 13 against us v London. Wire anyone?

Love this thread it is like old times!!

Old habits die hard, our season is over and that is all there is to it

Nice ground. Poor home support. The fact the serving hatch was open at the end of the game and they would not sell a pie. That's the summary of today

Surprisingly enough, you don't always get to beat the teams you beat last season.

and did you really expect a side that contains the likes of Sharp, Martin and Aspinwall to be up there with Wigan and Wire? the sooner Hull fans stop thinking Hull are as good as the Australian National side but just having a few years of bad luck the better.

we are an average team, that will finish in an average position...but are hoping to build to become a good team finishing in a good position next year.

as for your comment about Gentle not playing youngsters, he has coached us for 3 competitive games, where you expect him to draft in the entire U19 squad for the Wire game or something?

It was well into double figures tonight, I think. Dunno about Wire, but it seemed high.

Not really, most of us are just looking for reason for optimism and reality bites again.

We'll be lucky to avoid relegation at this rate!

Have we pick up any injuries in this game then or is everyone healthy?

Rome was not built in a day, anyone expecting miraculous results within a season are living in cloud cuckoo land. I expect to see an improvement, season on season hopefully we will strengthen the side next season.
Time will tell if Gentle can form a side to compete at the highest level, I am sure Pearson will expect it.
The season is still in its infancy and without injuries, hopefully we can progress

Eh' we have only played 3 fecking games, we have drew one, won one and lost one! 3 games hardly the right time to get the fecking ropes out

Whilst Bentham's penalty distribution cost us in the first half (we weren't seven times less disciplined than Salford (I think the penalty count was about 7:1 at half time)) the second half we convincingly lost ourselves.

Bentham evened it up a bit in the second half and we got our share of the ball, but, like the FC of old we made wrong choices and shocking mistakes near our line.

Four times we should have scored easily. A suicide pass from Lynch on the second tackle blew the first, Tickle spectacularly knocked on next, Horne chucked a shocker to Yeamo that was intercepted and couldn't see who was responsible for the other fumble but it was another blown chance - all of these happened within five yards of our line.

In no way were the youngsters responsible, the senior players let us down bigtime. Discipline, errors and our weak pack are now serious issues, be interesting what Gentle says tomorrow, 'cos the pressure's starting.

Your right, but how do you define "progress". For me it would be closing the gap on the teams who finished above us. Loosing to a side thst we beat twice last season would indicate that they have "progressed" more in the off season than we have, and no disrepsect to Salford that is disappointing.

we can but hope

It indicates nothing of the sort. It's one result. If Salford finish above us it'll be time to be making those sorts of statements.

I'm going to disregard everything in this post based on the fact you mixed Horne up with Manu for the intercept pass. They don't even look slightly alike.

Just seen the tries on the SKY red button, from the breif highlights it seemed a slow game with poor defences, Briscoe also appeared at fault for 2 tries.

Wow. Glad I haven't been on here tonight!