Any professional should be able to pass both ways and if not should be practicing it until he can.

Plenty dont though.......Cooke wasnt a great left to right passer.

Richard Horne`s distribution on the right hand side has been woeful.
Yesterday all he wanted to do was his trademark dip of the shoulder and go.
Brilliant when it comes off but stifling any movement of the ball down the right.

I know it’s not a ‘fashionable’ opinion but I thought Hall was the worst of a poor back three.

He doesn’t look comfortable at all and IMO he lacks bottle. Having got used to Briscoe (Shaun) and Tony putting their bodies on the line it is very apparent Hall isn’t as willing to do so. He dangles his arms out when taking high balls, he stops running before he reaches the defensive line and he takes his eye off the ball when supporting others – things you couldn’t associate with the Briscoe and Tony.

I had to laugh when Calderwood produced a quick PTB which Hall knocked on and some numpty behind me said ‘Bloody Calderwood, playing the ball far too quickly!’

Which appears to me to be a major problem. It shows a lack of professional pride when professional players of any sport are not prepared to work on the weaknesses in their game. I dont really play any sort of rugby but I'm confident that if I spent fulltime hours practicing and training I'd be able to kick for touch further than any of our players seem capable and pass it faster and more accurately in both directions.

Apart from the 2times he did and set up trys.

Especially with Tickle only offering the run back inside as any option.

That is correct, but unfortunately Salford spent large chunks of the game camped on our try line as a result of his errors.

Eh?....can think of 1 mistake at the ptb and that was it.

Not particularly defending Hall here but the reason they had so much field position was no one in the defensive line (which excludes Hall) could be d/bothered/give a tuppeny to move off said line and aggressively tackle their opposition.

calders nearly cost us another try when he thought the ball was going to go into touch and the salford winger over run it and calders mopped up that was sooo lucky it was untrue!! he had a shocker for me he got the ball from a salford kick and ran it in very hard and fast until he reached the salford defender then just stopped to a halt and fell to the floor!!

Yes but he didnt did he.....how about our other winger costing us a try.......nobody has mentioned that.

I have. Seems to have been largely overlooked though.

Total . The kick, a very good one and far better than anything we produced, stopped just before the touchline. Calderwood dealt with it perfectly and avoided being slammed into touch which was no mean feat. Had it been Briscoe would you be saying the same ? No thought not.

Completely agreed....he gave it every chance to reach touch, and made the decision to collect at exactly the right time.

I read your post on it.........dont get me wrong,Briscoe is going to be very good but he is making mistakes and costing us trys...but nobody will hear a bad word against him.

See my post about why no sensible winger should come Hull.

I can think of three errors in the first half. The one you mentioned and twice when he couldn't take in short passes from Manu.

On that occasion I think he was guilty of playing the ball too quickly without checking if anyone was in position. He must've known that, after a long kick, there were only two back, plus himself. One (Briscoe) was covering the opposite touchline. The other (Hall) had just wrapped around and given Calderwood the ball inside. As a result, there was very little chance of anyone getting to the PTB in time and, in rushing to do so, Hall came up with the error.

Cant believe he is still getting blamed for us playing poorly. What a joke!

If we follow the same logic we can expect Lewis Hamilton to be up before the beak for stealing a Brawn car, it's the only way he'll win a race in the foreseeable future.

You cannot blame Claderwood, can anyone identify a singe occasion where he failed to capitalise on an overlap etc.

Now, can anyone identify a useless short half-back cum Fullback that kicked on tackle 2 of a repeat set?

Probably as much as Fox, who is apparently inferior.

Calderwood is poo end of!!!

He will probably have 1 or 2 decent games in a season. He did it last year.

He will prob be brilliant this week and score a hat trick, so this post could bite me on the bum

calderwood steady end of
hal crap for me
briscoes a centre