All I can say is, im glad alot of you arent given the reigns at our club.

All i can say is Tony Smith has done it with Sims saying he was dropped and then played him in the reserves.
Dont get what the problem is.
Are you saying it might hurt his feelings if dropped and have to play in the reserves rather than a stimulus to regain his place in the first team.

Again, I dont know why you think its important BH says it in the media. Why is that so important ?

Also the Tony Smith sutuation is different, for a start he doesnt have 10000 cry babies after every loss.

I don't think my point was that bad. It makes sense to me that a player with zero confidence would be better suited somewhere else rather than in Hull FC's first team.

BH is going to go all Radford for this match

Mark my words !

completion rate v Rovers was a diabolical 52% which means on 18-19 sets we managed to end the set before the kick with some crap error

BH will focus on this but it’s how he will focus that will make you cringe

BH will go for 5 drives and a kick - there will be no flair - no offloads

basically LR style will be back

just watch

Assuming Castleford and Hull KR do not have blowout wins your 9 match prediction barometer still has us finishing in the top 6 at the end of the season even if we lose to Warrington today.

IF Cas win and Rovers win and we lose
all possible
Then we are 8th ?

HOPE we win and stay 5th as we have something to build on

Will you e-mail AP if worst case scenario transpires and we end up 8th?

Any win today will do. Scuffed drop goal last minute. COYH

I emailed him last week after Giants loss stating that BH has done a poor job in motivating the team !
I got a reply which I’ll keep between me and him
- nothing serious in it

9 game barometer never lies

Does he always reply to you cos you've sent him a few haven't you?




Well did he agree or disagree?




Is it a mercury or aneroid barometer?

He replies quite often but I only email twice a year max

Would that be so bad? We need to do the simple stuff right before we chuck it about. To get our confidence back if anything.

Think Connor needs to mix it up abit today instead of that last second pass, pop a few grubber kicks through.

Like Hodgson said, needs to recognise when the pass isn't on.

Don’t mind going back to basics, all the best teams run the ball hard down the middle, just with speed and aggression, and have some quality when that space, opportunity arises

Yeh he’s become predictable, he’s an interceptors dream, luckily don’t seem to be to many of them about these days in sl

That’s what we’ve been lacking since the Leeds game in terms of the forwards upping the work rate and laying the platform. Since they game we’ve lacked any forward dominance and seen low number of carries by the forwards. Instead we’ve just tried to win a game in minute one without wanting to roll our sleeves up and work for it. Our line speed both in attack and defence is poor and don’t know if it’s just that we are slow or just lazy though I’d say it’s probably both. We need to certainly address the intensity we play at as that is very hit and miss.

Been the same for seasons, absolutely no consistency in our intensity, personally believe it’s down to preparation and coaching. I’d like bh to do well, but isn’t looking good to be honest, let’s see if BH can get a response like McGuire got from his tigers team in the NRL

I hope Evans gets more game. He's had his settling in period now it's time to show us what he's capable of.

Not a lot unfortunately, said it when we signed, he’s not very good, hence he’s playing over here, was hoping he might if turned in to a Matt Pryor type of signing, ie: average in the nrl, good for sl, but going off what we’ve seen so far, bang average in sl to. Saying that, like you say, needs more game time

Heard no Houghton tonight and Lovodua is at 6.

Guess that means JJ at 9

Ellam will let us know soon enough

I really hope not, surley if Houghton is out you play Lovodua there.

Totally agree he was signed as a 9 play there for once

I think Reynolds is dropped and Ben Mc is injured.

Shame Balmforth couldn't get a run