I guess when your first choice 17 isn't particularly good then you won't see much of a difference when you bring the reserves in but that's what you need to do to compete at the top of SL rather than scramble for survival at the bottom

it dosent always work then does it , needs to be a bit more balanced

Dunno. It's worked pretty well the last couple of years. What do the current top 4 have when they lose key men? I'd say Hull have coped remarkably well but the last few weeks have caught up with us. It's not just about the players missing but those who take the field carrying injuries. kelly clearly isn't right and taylor is completely busted but still puts his hand up every week. These players wouldn't be playing if we had a near fit squad.

This season has seen a freakish number of lengthy injuries to key players so I'm just glad we're not scrapping for our lives in those middle 8's

I agree Jake you have coped well and to be still in contention is a great achievement but maybe you should tell some of the other Hull fans who seem to think this season is a disaster it shows how short some memories are it wasn’t that long ago Agar was taking you to the dizzy heights of 11th place

Too right. We need to dust ourselves down, have a decent 8's when we get some players back and look to next season

Hull have won 11 Super League games and lost 10.

16 points short from 1st, 3 points better than 8th and a real relegation scrap.

Would I swap places? Yes. Is it a wonderful achievement? No.

To their credit they put in a really good performance at St Helens in the cup and were unlucky not to win they certainly defended the trophy exceptionally well.

Under Radford Hull have bottle, week in week out not so good yes injuries have played their part just like Rovers, Leeds, Widnes, Castleford....I'll stop here and say every team apart from St Helens. They assume they'll be luckier next year..we have made that mistake ourselves.

IMO the gap between the Hull clubs is narrowing, still there but narrowing. Even many of our own fans don't seem to have noticed but the key events happen and the fruit bears later. Thanks to the current system we are 9 points better than the bottom club with 2 fixtures remaining....but they can still stay up and we can still go down. Rovers are battling a system where the only thing that matters is drama.

I think that this drama at all costs system skews people's outlook, as a promoted club we are going to finish above at least 2 established SL clubs and IMO that should be enough. Get through this and the future looks good. Hull have reverted to type blaming injuries and referees.

Well said

Wise words

No other club has suffered anywhere near as many lengthy injuries to key players as Hull have this year

No other...ha ha ha..club has...excuse me...suffered..like Hull FC...haha..sorry I can't go on.

Loving you back in Hull FC excuse mode we've really missed you.

Us Castleford Leeds Widnes spring to mind pretty much all season? Yours seem to have been last 2/3rds of season? Snide being long term has been the main problem id reckon? Then the in form Griffin n Connor get Crocked.Far from ideal and throw in other injuries to Shaul Kelly Houghton and it has been tough on a squad without Watts Ellis Fonua who were real quality. Tough times indeed but I still reckon yourselves and the 4 clubs iv mentioned have had it as bad as each other? Dont believe everything Smailes writes.

You really are pathetic,get those blinkers off.

Think Widnes have been the worse and hull have had players coming in and. Out of there squad they might have it bad now but so have Salford and Widnes we had it bad all year but now where getting players back you can see the difference

Hi Jake, Mrs B appears to have hacked your account.

I remember us receiving massive sympathy when some on here claimed injuries contributed to our relegation. When I say remember I have been drinking excessively.

You have had an average amount of injuries when you take a couple of years into account, you had almost zero for 18 months and basked in the glory as a result, without accepting much of your success was down to the injuries wiping out your competition. Now you are so consumed with self pity you gloss over the injuries other squads also face, Cas for example have had at least an equal amount. The difference is they built a squad capable of coping.

I expected a better reply than that bob. We both know we've been hit harder than anyone but only one of us dare admit it in public. You had maguire out for about half as long as sneyd has been missing and it was like the sky had fallen in

I think it's your account she's hacked stan

Deluded

Going by todays HDM piece I think James Smailes has come down with a bit of Barista-itis.

They've had it hard, but no harder then widnes, leeds, cas even us who have had big players out for a large amount of the year. It's bordering on pathetic now how much it's getting played on

Old pants down was having a good moan and is still obsessed with Leeds it seems?

Apparently they're filming an episode of casualty down at our training due to the horrendous number of injuries we have

Must be 4 or 5 players you’re missing now

You sure it wasn’t a remake of One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest?

I hope the keep on bigging up the injuries, the players believe it now and thats getting into there psychology, they go out with a ready made excuse and even at 72-0 it wont matter, got us injuries will get trotted out.

The poor lambs.

I reckon we have twice as many unavailable this Friday than they have but that won’t get mentioned in the media. #emperorsnewclothes

I thought they renamed them injury hit hull fc, sky sports only refer to them as that