Oh dear another one missing the point like staffs.
I've not struggled to accept anything here.
I'm pleased we won glad we won would like to make top 8 just because I don't rate Radford it doesn't take away me wanting us to win at all times and never in this thread have I mentioned anything negative regarding our team or coach.
Thought this was a discussion on punditry and ref performance which I have commented on before you start throwing accusations at me which are so wide of the mark Mr know it all

Why is every thread on this forum turning into a one on one slanging match???

Because it's more entertaining than what we're producing on the filed currently

Sadly - that's so close to the truth ;(

We don't offload.

We are 6th in terms of offloads in Super League.

Not sure who said it but the phrase "lies, damn lies and statistics"

It was the 70th minute on Friday against Widnes before we off loaded from the tackle.

We play like the Huddersfield team of the early 2000's when Mal Reilly was in charge. They were bottom of the league but had the least handling errors of any team. The reason was that any player knocking on more than twice in a game was dropped. Hence, they didn't pass.

Point being we are not the worst at off loads nor are we the best. We are about average.

wait till yeaman gets back

Really? Surprising. We hardly seem to make any, our second phase is pretty much non-existent.

As I said on the match thread well done to all & a win is a win...now I've watched the game in full and the commentators are right..
We are so desperately poor in attack, the passing is too slow, Houghton is one of the culprits and couldn't change the direction of play if he had a force 12 gale blowing in the opposite direction..Oh and did we even have any dummy runners or anyone backing up for breaks?
Yes we've had a tough schedule and our defence was pretty good for the most part but Widnes moved the ball far better than we did, had no weight in their forwards to speak of and thank god for their mistakes.
Shaul's inability to get the pass out with a 3 on 1 (Ah Van knock down) was criminal.

If we can win games playing that badly I'll take it, frankly though if we do it'll be a miracle!

I'm sorry, but that's a gross exaggeration. We do actually have plenty of players who look for the offload but our support play is so lacking that we rarely get the opportunity to make one successfully. Even so, we are no better or worse than many other sides in the competition.

We have enough faults without inventing others.

It's commonly accepted that the officiating is pretty poor, and I think that's accurate. I think where inaccuracy kicks in is how much fans think it is weighted against their team.

I didn't think we were particularly on the bad end of a refereeing performance on Friday, in all honesty. A couple of mistakes made for/against each team, that's about it. The fact that one of those mistakes led to a try for them but not vice versa is partly chance, partly that we weren't/aren't clinical enough when given the ball from 20 yards out. We had a chance that we shouldn't have had, as did they. That we didn't take advantage and they did is not the officials working against us.

The perception of everyone always being offside against us often comes from our slow work at the ptb, IMO. Even the actual act of playing the ball, watch how we are slower than most other sides, and then our passing is often slower, too. These seemingly small things add up to extra yards teams can move up in defence with good line speed. You can also add in that we seem to run back into the more highly populated ruck areas more than most other team as well. On Friday, the fact that Widnes clearly looked fresher than us at the start of the game created a bit of an illusion that they were constantly a mile offside IMO. Actually, they most often just had more energy than us and were moving up quicker. I thought it was noticeable that it faded away as the game went on and they tired, and it wasn't just that Silverwood didn't police it in the first half but then did in the second.

Disagree they played the chance percentage game of offside when in our half take the risk ,when in own stay onside.
Lots of times where two yards in front of old Silverback he has a tendency to only look one way for offside.

Agree our play the ball needs speeding up and would help if players supported the ball carrier.

I always thought that the defending side could not move forward from the 10 metre mark until the ball hand been played (heeled) backwards.
Nothing to do with how fit the defending side might be or how slow the play the ball might be.

You won't get many on this thread actually agreeing that it goes both ways.

You're right if done correctly the defending team cannot move until the attacking player's foot touches the ball.
However every team pinches a couple of yards it just depends how lenient the ref is.

They can't move until contact is made with the ball. What I was saying was our actual mechanics of playing the ball from front to back and then the pass from dummy half are slow at times (more so on Friday I thought, probably hangover fatigue from Easter). Now this may only add a second or so, but in a process that only takes a few seconds in total that can be a relatively large addition leading to the defensive team making 1 or 2 yards more.

I'm not saying that offsides are perfectly policed, but I don't think they're always as bad or as one-sided as a lot of Hull fans seem to.

Add in that the man who receives the ball is invariable stood still or barely above walking pace due to poor organisation and delivery from acting half

Exactly. It's little things like these that all add up to us being woefully slow from the ptb to hitting the line, not just that we don't get up quickly enough (although we don't, either). Referees are usually as bad about the 10 for both teams, we just contribute further to help teams make more ground on us a lot of the time.

The frustrating thing for me is that if we could be a bit better in 4 or 5 key areas then we would be greatly improved as a team

And even more so because it's been that way for ages. I do think a lot of this stems from lack of guile , at the ptb. With all respect to Houghton and his work ethic he at least needs help from a more physically and mentally dominant acting half who will push both opposition and his own players around and control that area. A 9 calling the shots and worrying the opposition because they don't know what he'll do next is something we've lacked for years. Howarth and Cunningham aren't that sort of player and I don't think Houghton can become one.

I think that everyone can agree that we have issues with a slow PTB, but how anyone can look at Silverwood's performance and say that he was equally bad for both sides is beyond my comprehension. Granted he was terrible overall, but we got the dodgy end of the stick by some considerable margin.

Sadly in this day and age in 90% of ptb's the attacking player's foot never touches the ball....