Good effort again from Hull, yet another game we could have won with a little more composure.

I think a slight tweak to make it a playoffs a top6 instead of top4 could help keep the interest, while still making it hard for the 5th/6th teams to get to the final, though we would have still been out of the running a few weeks back.

We've got to beat Catalan next week, they've won one away game at Wakefield all year, half their team is leaving and you can't imagine they'll be all that bothered. So anything less than 2 points would be a weak display from us.

Start the super 8s with The team finishing top of the regular season on 6pts , 2nd on 4pts and 3rd start on 2 points the other 5 teams starting on zero . That would be my idea on how to do it but tbf if I were a Wigan or Leeds fan I'd want it to stay as it is

Keep it as it is, we will be in the top 4 next season anyway according to AP

Not fair to change it. It's up to us to win more games in the first part.

Rankin was great, maybe his best game for us, but their has been plenty of average ones. Still annoyed by kick on the first tackle when we had their 12 men on the rack at 4-0.

Sill mistakes and poor discipline.

Also how did the officials miss the forward pass for their first try in the 2nd half, but managed to spot all of ours.

How many great games has he had for us? A handful at best

As for tonight, plenty of effort but we were rubbish with the ball - far too many soft errors and poor decision making.

We have some good players coming in but they're not addressing our real weaknesses which for me are the halfs and hooker. Another disappointing season in 2016 beckons IMO

On the super 8 format, something needs doing to make all games matter, yes part of it needs to be done by us but it's no good having dead rubbers 4 weeks into the concept, didn't catch the crowd tonight but there can't have been more than 6000 inside the ground, it must be hitting our club and other clubs financially

Spot on, we're strengthening the team in areas such as the 2nd row which are already strong. I'm still far from convinced by the halves, Sneyd is inconsistent and doesn't lead the team around the field, I can cut Pryce some slack tonight as he clearly wasn't match fit, but we've signed him a good few years too late. The never ending search for quality, consistent halves continues.

Regardless of the line up tonight thought it was a game we could have and should have won had we been smarter. Too many errors and too many stupid penalties.
Pryce was an absolute passenger and for me shouldn't have been playing but I guess that's down to lack of available bodies.
The biggest disappointment again tonight in my opinion was Sneyd. Never took the line on barring once, missed glaringly obvious gaps to run in to at times, poor with ball in hand and a terrible kicking game both in play and at goal. None been too impressed with him overall.
Story of our season tonight when compared to last week.

9,300 ish ... Think 8k would be more like a true gate

Probably the same way they missed the blatant knock on that led to you scoring yours in the first half...

Worst defensive display from us in some time and back to the poor decision making that plagued us before the super 8s. We made nearly as many mistakes as you. Anderson made too many changes and we Played without a proper hooker for 30 minutes.
Old faithful ringing out to an almost empty stadium at the end after a 9,500 starting crowd made me chuckle. As did the ambulance man who cheered every try we scored- must be a rovers fan!!
You have some very decent young players there. Hope radford keeps them.

with the players we have coming in next year and the youngsters we have coming through I believe we will be 5/6 next year

I thought 7-8k in the ground, the South stand was the emptiest I've seen it for a league game. it's also noticeable how many passholders around us who have been going for years are now missing several games, and we are now past the summer holiday season. People are finding other stuff to do.

Yes Rankin took the eye but my MOM was Brad Fash, seemed to be involved in every tackle down the middle, great enthusiasm and definitely one for the future.

Giants didn't find 3rd gear at all and as Jools said we were back to dumb plays and trying to do it all the easy flash way without earning it

Ref missed a lot both ways and was conned more than once by FC players

And if you dont like those runaound offloads for Connors tries you aren't rugby fans

Ahh right so you just liked to keep us in the game then, not only is it arrogant to put that its also direspctful for those kids who played on the pitch agianst you

So how exactly can the RL do this? There is one point separating the top four teams at the moment which I would suggest shows that the concept, for the teams that CAN compete actually works. The RL are not to blame for our complete inadequacies as a team. Poor half backs, a hooker with the worst distribution in SL, the slowest back line in the 8's by a mile and a coach with ZERO pedigree at this level.

Where does he suggest Huddersfield just liked to keep us in the game? Hudds were way below par but still had the PLAYERS to win the game for them. Take the blinkers off.

Compared with our performance against warrington it was a poor performance by the Giants. Some dreadful defence, slow line speed and a lack of sharpness in attack. No arrogance or disrespect. On a positive note I thought one of our kids, Connor (aged 20), showed some very nice touches.

You were pretty average but then most of SL has been all season. We had a scratch side and really should have won at a canter. a 3/4 line of naughton, yeaman, turgut and logan really shouldn't be getting near a side with title aspirations.

Unless hudds get a whole lot better quickly they won't be going to OT this season.

Same old performance from Hull FC,

A lot of guts and endeavour... but passing & catching is of a poor
standard throughout the team.

Worryingly, this standard will in time be passed down to the youth.

Problem is, all of the present coaching staff have been at the club
since Agar was appointed, so I dont expect any changes in passing speed throughout the squad anytime soon.

thought it looked less than that, i've never seen the south and east stands so quiet

how many would you say we brought? 200-250?

was probably our worst performance of the last few weeks, both teams were guilty of some shocking unforced errors and bad passes, but we just had too much for you in the end, despite us not playing well for a lot of it.

scrappy game but we showed some good spirit to come back as i thought we were done for at 20-18 with all the momentum to Hull.

I thought there were several differences between the sides tonight,they had a game plan which they stuck to,we seemed as though we didnt know what we were going to do at all.
Shocking control of the ball and stupid penalties aplenty to piggyback them up the pitch and top 4 teams like huddersfield are just going to take advantage.
Thaler did us no favours either but I have not posted about our coach for quite a while,but could the simple difference between the teams be huddersfield are a well coached side,and we are not? COYH