Good job they didn't appoint an untried assistant.

What about john kear,he won you the cup,then you sacked him and you haven't had a decent coach since.You reap what you sow springs to mind !!

A penny for Adam Pearson's thoughts right now. He's invested heavily into the club both on and off the field, however if we go out of the cup next week then it will be another loss making season. And I can't see pass sales improving for 2014. So what does he do? stick with Gentle or show him the door. The club have asked us to believe but I wonder if he really does at the moment.

Gentle's "Raising the bar"

Get them doing 5 GCSE's at Hull college.

And I called it straight after last week's game that we should have rested 2 or 3 of our forwards and brought some of the fresh ones in

On recent showings it'd be beyond most of them.

Ha bloody ha sorry but have we improved this season...NO....serving up the same crap as we did under Agar and getting the same bloody excuses.

I hope he's ripping the whole lot of them a new one , None of them seem to know what there doing !

pearson's had his leg lifted big style. I don't think I'll bother with a pass next season no matter what happens between now and the end of the season

if the coach new (like everyone else) that the team were tired then why then hell did n't he give some of our young lads a run out?

was he worried players like Johnson etc might play well and bust tackles and put his golden boys (tickle, lynch etc) under pressure for next weeks match?

coaches fault as much as the players

It was a safe excuse, do you believe we lost that because our forwards weren't fresh?

Fuck off. We lost that because we are the dumbest pro rl side in the world.

I'd certainly have brought in Johnson at least. Pitts was fresh anyway. Not that he did much.

Issue was more that Houghton and Heremaia were shot. All our creativity and threat came from them last week and tonight they just didn't have the energy to do it again.

Wasn't Pitts a fresh player ?
Can't remember but I don't think he played in France.
He was anonymous tonight.

Double agent Howes strikes again.

I haven't made a single excuse for Gentle. I'm just saying that being an untried assistant doesn't automatically make you a bad coach - and neither does being a tested coach automatically make you a good one.

I honestly don't know where we go from here.

Hope your going to ban yourself for personal abuse.We have enough experience out there to not be dumb but the bloody are.

We'd give some of the part timers a run for their money on that score.

Why have you CHEATED in the cup again this year?....




To all the doom and gloom merchants get your play makers back on the pitch for some creativity then judge them.... atm they look like lost sheep ...

Experience and intelligence are not the same thing.

Who are our playmakers?

It's the same people letting us down.

We didn't struggle to make ground tonight, so I can't see how resting the forwards would have helped. We have no attacking structure and make too many mistakes.

We've played our best rugby (not outstanding by any means) with Holdsworth and Horne in the team IMO. We are missing both players but I wouldn't claim it's utopia with them. We are totally thick without them though - it seems like Houghton runs the team in their absence instead of the halves and it doesn't work.

I wouldn't disagree but there are quite a few in that category.