Hope you're all crying. Especially Funtime.

Unlike Hull KR, eh Stan?

Not really it would have been nice but it will be much better seeing you get beat in the final after all you will be playing a team that can actually attack but enjoy your day seeing as you didn't go to the semi

You have lost me there (not for the 1st time).

Good result now I want Wakey to get there & black & white win in the final. I win at the bookies (even more if they win super league) & we will have to find another song to sing to anoy our friends across the river.

Credit to Hull. they've gone from clown car a couple of years ago to steamroller this. It has been a remarkable turnaround. I thought fifth or sixth would be a really good season for them - they signed well, but had lost some decent players too. One or two of their most devoted fans seemed to think they were on the brink of crisis during the off-season. Seems we dramatically underestimated them.

That other teams so often look inept when they play Hull, is credit to Hull's efficient superiority, of which I admit to being envious.

It does show what can be achieved relatively quickly, though.

Well here's to you having the holiday of a lifetime Stan!!

Thought Hull were far better team overall, Wigan were what they have been all year, good defence but awful attack. Seem to have forgotten how to send in line runners. Tomkins looks a shadow of the player that left.

Actually hoping for a Wakey win today and then a repeat of the Featherstone final of the 80s where the underdog triumphs.

Downside is Asda will be full of people in unwashed shirts for the next 3 weeks it'll be like the banjo twanging Olympics until the final.

I do feel that overall on social media, the FC fans in large are struggling to cope with the fact that the majority of Rovers fans accept that FC deserved to win last night and fully expect them to break their Wembley hoodoo.

I think it has surprised most of us, I'd have been over joyed with 4th and happy with 5th, never mind top and CC final.

This has been 5 or so years in the making since Pearson took over and 3 years since Radford/Tony came we got rid of McRae, massive credit to those and we had to go quite far backwards to get where we are. I really think if we get things right off the field we have the chance to be consistently in contention the next few years.

You can see why NH and Rovers are trying to follow or model.

It goes to prove that as fans we know nothing. If the majority had had their way 18 months ago Radford would have been given his marching orders and the cycle of strip and start again would have recommenced. fast forward 18 months and he'll be coach of the year barring a complete melt down and I think most would struggle to put up an argument against it if it happens.

The planets have aligned right for Hull, similar to leicester I suppose, a couple of the usual power houses have collapsed, the others are just not hitting their straps and Hull have managed to win games which a year ago they would've lost.

A lot of credit must go to Tony for assembling a squad that covers itself in most areas, I just hope that if we get through this year that we can follow suit and get RL back to the heady days of the 80's where both teams are challenging each other for trophies.

IMO, the early years of Pearson's reign and Radford's first year in charge, were a learning process without much tangible progress. Which was fair enough, they were novices in terms of RL and being a head coach respectively.

I don't believe you [uhad[/u to go backwards to get here. Just as I don't think we had to be rubbish this year as a precursor to hopefully improving. It is best to avoid mistakes in the first place, but failing that, learning from them will do.

A team is only as strong as its weakest link. The gap between our best players and our weakest is too big - and that would be true even if we weren't suffering with injuries so badly. And we need to be able to go toe-to-toe with the top teams at least occasionally. Relying pretty much exclusively on results against other bottom half teams, is a recipe for struggle.

A good pre-season will be the first step. We're not going to recruit ourselves very far up the ladder, realistically.

We were out last night, so did not see the deserved Hull victory. Watched it back on record this morning, after my good lady watched the Celebrity Masterchef final on the iPlayer first. Such is her contempt for the dark side, even though she is from Devon, she truly has no shame.

Congratulations to Hull on getting to Wembley.

A measure of their progress this season is their defensive intensity and resolve and structure. Allied to a confidence to not panic and not give up on the last play without trying the better offload or expansive option, having a pivot in Marc Sneyd at the peak of his game and having the best hooker and full back in the league and the results and team performances speak for themselves.

Wigan were DIRE in attack, a story of their season to date, but were well contained by Hull's defence. St Helens in the the Super 8s top 4 are similarly useless this season.

Only Wire stand in Hull's way of an achievable treble now.

I am impressed by Hull's speed of transition and improvement since last season. Radford for a New Year knighthood.

Come on Radford for a Knighthood Have you been on the drugs and Beer your having a

Personally I think this is Hulls best signing, Motu Tony. He played with the likes of Pritchard and Manu in the NZ team. I cannot help but thinking that will have had an influence on them joining Hull.

I have nothing but admiration for Jamie Peacock as a player and think he will become a huge figure head in the game as years progress, but is he really what your club need? Would the likes of Clint Newton / Mick Vella or even Campese be better placed to be head of recruitment with the contacts they have in the NRL?

Watched the semi on zeebruge ferry.no argument from me that hull deserved win overall.the final on paper is 2 best teams this year although catalan looked real deal earlier. warry have much superior backs its just if they can match the forwards..will be a good game.looking back on last year even though they tried to devalue our achievement whilst conviently forgeting their own nilling there I took something from us walking out at Wembley in a final after years of wilderness.yes leeds hammered us but was a great day out in a lot of ways.the lady doing abide with me was a special moment and leeds were ruthless combined with a lot of our guys freezing.the nil hurt more than the 50 imo..but what I remember most is walking out straight after game on concourse and 5 or so fc fans gloating about briscoe etc.i hope Warrington smash them

He needs to be given time to do his job, it's takes a couple of years for a management position to bear fruit.

IMO Peacock's contacts list is the least of our worries.

I won't judge on this year, based on his having no non-fed spots and presumably very little budget to play with. Our pack desperately needed more than just Clarkson and Mulhern, but maybe there were no other or additional realistic options.

Who the new coach is and the theme of this year's recruitment will be interesting. We need to be bigger, fitter, faster, stronger, smarter and more aggressive. Part of that has to come from recruitment. If he goes primarily for potential again, I'll be concerned that his philosophy is more about giving players a chance, rather than giving our team a chance.

Batley first though, innit?

So, just everything then, no problem.

Nowt wrong with your eyesight then, MR.



I appreciate I have taken the support statements out of the edit above, but as it stands it will win the " Most Blindingly Obvious Post of 2016" award for this forum. Maybe the East Stand faithful could turn it into a banner!

warrington have better half backs but the rest of their back line isn't better than ours. They had russell and evans on the wing yesterday

scruton and danny addy should sort that out then

Scrotum was a bit crap yesterday. Heaven help us if he comes here next year.

Danny Addy. Needs a new entry in Wikipedia to read - Blessed only with the tonsorial equivalent of a DT. (canine themed anagram that rhymes with George the Third)

We're doomed. Only 4 more years for Jamies plan to bear fruit. S#it the bed!

mitch clark and t-rex should be better but presume you're losing 2 o/s players? Wouldn't be surprised to see HTW playing for you next year