Think overall it was a good match. It was nice to see some passion in the shirt again. I thought we played for the full 80 and did cause threats in there 20, but again failed to capitalize. 3 disallowed tries maybe?? Some curious calls by bentham but it's officials for ya nowadays.

Only thing i want to say about the official is, How the heck can the touch judge call that from the far side when the closer touch judge said ok?? Isn't there a momentum rule anymore?? There third try was more forward then that an Bentham was yards from them.

Were starting quite slow but i still feel we will be in the 8 come end of season. Top four, don't think so. Wasn't expecting a win, expected a heavy loss but from that performance even though we lossed. I'm happy with it (performance that is)

I think its a bit harsh to criticise bentham when he didnt give the giants a penalty till the 67th minute and had given hull 5 by then.!

What's going on with Holdsworth? Worried about him.

More high quality debate Gary.

The way you guys played today I would of been happy with draw! Really unlucky with the forward pass. Was the right call but so frustrating when the inconsistency throughout the league is so up And down! Play like that throughout the season and you will be real contenders, especially when you get your full squad back

Top teams don't need to worry about that ball. Otherwise fair result we need to be better.

Bentham had a good game. There was just moments when i feel he made the wrong call. Even sky said it. My post was really to the touch judges. They need to improve. More so then the referee's

Didn't look 100%. Sick after game? Think I would have been after that game! Defended well first half.

PG stated,the squad have hardly trained together this week.

6 players had fitness tests,and a bug had swept through the camp, hence the Holdsworth sickness.

Something is deffo not right with him. I realise that going forward he is going to be an important player for you but tonight you would have been better served playing somebody else at 6 and letting Holdsworth recover from whatever is currently troubling him. His kicking game was awful and i can hardly think of an example of him asking questions of the defensive line when he had the ball.

So just another week as the squad of a super league club

If we have six first teamers out, another six having fitness tests and Holdsworth passes the test and puts his hand up, would be brave to leave him out as a precaution in a game away at the top team. On paper we should have never been in the game,so arguably any doubtful players should have been left out for next week when we have a chance of some points. But on the other hand inviting a major drubbing on tv would also have been unpalatable.

Watching Hull with the ball in hand is like watching paint dry,

Pretty good defence though and bags of commitment



Another good game for Lineham, looks like you've got a good one there.

More facts sheldon.!

Thought holdsworth kicking was hit an miss, he did some poor and some good kicks.

We lack pace at halfback, Horne of a few years ago would work great with DJ, but he is the best we have at 6.

Thought the turning point was when we were winnin by 4 and just won a penalty, it was a chance to gt some pressure, Westerman dropped the ball on the 2nd tackle.

Just read PG view and it's hard to argue what he said.

Quality coaching,always have an excuse ready.!

One thing's for sure nobody could doubt the commitment of your boys tonight.

Quite an absorbing contest in which Hull played a full part.

Even so Huddersfield didn't need to play all that well to win. Hull scored 4 points all night plus the fluke when Horne tried to kick the ball and it came off his thigh.

Hull must find a cutting edge or all the effort in the world will be to no avail.

Is that also a fact?

Can you show me were he has used this excuse?

Our attack has barely improved over the last eight years or so. We have a little bit more flair under Gentle but nothing to write home about.
A change of personnel over the years but still no great improvement in attack, why?
Yes we're seriously missing another creative half to partner DJ. But I still don't think it'd be enough to make a huge difference. Our two first choice centres aren't skilful only Crooks can claim to be skillfull with ball in hand. Still slow at getting the ball out wide and look lost most of the time with a lack of runners.

Hudds played well, only 2 mistakes, kicked well and defence was excellent.

Hull apart from a couple poor defensive errors reduced hudds attacking threat.

You really need to ask?

Halfbacks.

Very fair summary. Clearly a fit Holdsworth and Heremaia would help, but the issue is that our forwards and defensive efforts set a platform but lack of structure and runners in attack, regardless of who wears the pivot shirts, reduces our options from limited to almost zero. Our biggest threats seem to be Briscoe and Lineham running the ball off their own 20.

We've had some really good halves over the years. Dykes, Head, Long (although he barely played) but we've always played the same since 2006.
So surely it's not that simple is it. Can't be just down to the halves. Our structure has hardly changed, too one directional still and have no optional runners except the runner who's going to be recieving the ball.

No, Galea was bludging at marker, it was his man. Infact Galea's defence throughout was soft and was slow off the ground.

Bang on. We're still playing the same boring attacking Rugby we played under Agar.

We have no spark, the only glimpses of it come from our two wingers. Why aren't we offloading anymore? We have absolutely no pace, so everything is done slowly.