OK, a win's a win, but that was rubbish again tonight IMO. salford are the 2nd worst team in SL, with a paper thin squad and a number of injuries keeping players out tonight. And what do we do? Scrape a win courtesy of a couple of tickle penalties and a dubious disallowed try. I can't see any positives other than the 2 points and can only see us beating celts between now and the end of the season.

At times we looked clueless and for me the overall performance was no better than the last 3. Only managing to score 2 tries against the 2nd worst defence in the league says it all

as I have said in another thread we have only beaten two teams (Castleford and Huddersfield) who currently sit in the top8

the only positive was an improved effort by some of the players, but to be honest they should be giving 100% every week, and it should not take this kind of pressure to get a performance from them.

the rest was the same old story, clueless near the line

just how bad Thorman has to get before he's dropped I don't know, i'd rather see Sam Moa at no7

What He Said!

so you don't think we made good yards tonight then?

I agree mate.

If that was against any other team (apart from maybe Celtic) we would of got beat by 20-30 points.

Only players for me that played good were Raynor and Yeaman.

it was better, but I thought the pack were shocking at Belle Vue so they could only get better

Yes we did make good yards but at times Salford did too.

Would not say we made good yards but it was an improvement but then again it was only Salford.

jesus dont try to get postives out of people on here, few and far between! i agree with u tho

OK, but we were only playing salford

absolute crap, i actually think getting the win does us more harm than good as it will paper over the chasms for another week and allow mr rule to tell us it was a battling win over a tough salford side or some such bollox! i think our expectations have slipped that low that we see tonights game as a positive??

I agree, we were awful and would have struggled against anyone apart from Salford and Celtic on that showing.

However, we did get plenty of field position and I thought our backs looked OK. Our inability to get a quick PTB for me just negates any positives. We know we're very limited in creating opportunities, but if we could just gain some speed and momentum from the PTB, this in itself would at least create some doubt in the mind of the defence. We were standing much deeper in the first half as well, which is a good thing (although Agar complained about this in the post match interview

); next step now we've established where to stand is maybe to practice someone running onto the ball.

not good yards??? Have you seen the territory stats? We were virtually camped in there 20 for 60 minutes! The pack did great tonight against a big team and once again our pivotal players couldn't create to put the points on the board our forwards deserved. Sean long would of had a field day out there tonight.

7 out of their attacking line were in front of the kicker, so was hardly dubious

Why are we expecting to go from garbage last week to world class this week?? it would never happen - id take a win and an improvement in confidence goin into next weeks game

Couldn't make it tonight but heard the 2nd half. Nick Pinkney, Doc, Gollum and DDD said we were poor. Agar and Rule thought we did well. God help us!!!!

so you're admitting that there was a positive then??

we werent expecting 'world class' this week, but clinging on against a team that have conceded 447 points already this season does not instill confidence.

i had kcfm on, the host on there said we played alright

Please tell me that's a joke. Surely the bloke is not so clueless he thinks that receiving the ball stood still only a couple of yards back from the PTB is a sound tactic?

And scored 2 tries against the 2nd worst defence in SL.



Jeez, you've actually convinced me more than Jake that we must have been poor.

see the rest of my post for the reasons for that!

I'm sure he made some comment about it and sort of excused it in that "we were trying to play some football". Back to Plan A at training this week, then.

Yeh I heard him say that to - I'm betting his last name is Rule or Agar.

Buck stops with the coach yet again then...same problem week in, week out yet he persists with the two at half back....mix it up and change it around!

no the host on kcfm is HullFC's media officer!

he is hardly going to come out with 'it was completely pathetic' whatever the result!