No thanks. Don't want to be on TV again.

I would tend to agree with that. Hopefully Pryce knows the pressure is on and that will spur him on to improve.

He was dave, just think that bringing ellis in might shore up the defence and give us a strong back 3, plus bringing Thompson on later with his footwork will damage teams,by no means having a go at him and think hes doing a good job at LF,just think against wigan we need the big men out there from the off

I'd keep the team as it is and give them another chance. I just hope Radders doesn't feel the need to push the panic button and make wholesale changes. We don't want to be chopping and changing the team all the time whenever results don't go our way.

Hull should beat Wigan, they aren't as big down the middle as Hull and can't get the ball to the edges as quick as Cas were doing last night which is where Hull struggled. Wigan also looked very disjointed in attack last night.

Need to get Ellis starting though, massive difference when he was on the pitch and made a bigger impact on the game than any of the other subs.

wigan are past masters at slowing the ptb and laying on, need a strong referee for this game

it seems the likes of thaler, bentham and silverwood are getting gigs at at the teams who reside at the upper end of the table

twice we've had hicks and an unkown

I agree with that. Pryce was poor also at Catalan
For me i would keep the same team and bench but if Pryce and Watts dont step up they should be replaced with Abdull and Chris Green.
Radford should step on Logan and Pryce for jumping the line.Its costing us with tries on our right edge and Michaels is taking criticism unfairly when he is being pulled infield to cover.

Wigan scored some great tries as I saw it on the fringes. We are delicate out wide.
Maybe Cas decided not to take us on down the middle but rather decide to have a go at us out wide like Dragons 2 tries and like Reds tries. Also a winger scores a hat trick.
Maybe Radfud could change the fringe defence to the umbrella type where we force teams inside ?

Defence wins championships so we need to keep Wigan to 18 or below and we could win it.

Wigan are the masters of doing what we haven't been in and around the ruck area. Hope we work hard this week.

U19's game today.... https://twitter.com/WiganWarriorsRL

U19's game today.... https://twitter.com/WiganWarriorsRL

Not much happening, losing 40-36 with 5 minutes to go.

40-36 now. Scored 3 in 9 minutes

We've some how tied the game at 38 all with a penalty.

Full Time.

Score went from 34-20 to 40-20 with an unconverted try!!

Great performance from the lads.

Can't see Talanoa playing this week. I think he will be flying home.

Why?

Think his dad has passed away over the weekend

I don't think I'd make any changes at this stage, although I would consider shuffling the positions around a bit. Probably start with a back row of Mini, Ellis and Manu to lay a foundation and then bring on Thompson to use his footwork at the line against tired defenders.

If there is one player I've been a touch disappointed with its Watts, so if he doesn't step up this week I would be thinking about bringing in Green for the Widnes game, but no need to ring the changes yet. We've played very well twice, and above average against Cas, who put in a really top class performance. The loss might not be a bad thing in the long run, everything has been a bit easy so far and we needed a test. I would have obviously rather had a tough game and come out on top, but we will get more out of the Cas game performance wise than the other 2.

From what I've seen of Wigan this year they look really sluggish in attack and I don't see them asking as many questions of our defence as Cas did. They are defensively solid, but as long as our pack do their thing I think we can get the 2 points, which would put us in good shape with other top sides struggling and a run of winnable games ahead.

A couple of comments mentioned how our attack struggled. Not sure I agree, I thought we looked dangerous again. Michaels should have scored, so should have Minichiello, and there were a couple of excellent try savers on Logan and Pritchard. Without doing very much different we could easily have racked up 40+ again.

Free members coach travel to Widnes being advertised on the club website. www.hullfc.com/article/44217/fre ... -away-game

Free members coach travel to Widnes being advertised on the club website. www.hullfc.com/article/44217/fre ... -away-game

Pritchard just given a caution for his open handed strike. Lucky, hopefully wont lash out so easily again.

Paul Clarke tweeted Talanoa hasn't gone home. Was at U23s yesterday with a load of other first team players.

Standing around near the touchline like Yeaman?

Didn't realise you could stoop so low.

It was a joke about Yeaman ref the comments about him on the under 23 thread nothing to do with Talanoa.
go back to sleep

Thaler reffing. One game where we need a tough official to clamp down on Wigan's cynical tactics at the ruck. Hmm.