While you are correct,its not something we needed a super league opposition to identify..

Attendance wise it looked more than 1800 to me but i would never accuse the club of fiddling the attendance. Game wise i thought our middles did a pretty good job considering the size difference between the 2 sides, but once they attacked our edge defence even if we got our numbering right which we completely got wrong for their first try they ruthlessly exposed us with there pace power and clinical finishing. It goes without saying there was a big gulf between the sides across the park but i was disappointed with some of our outside backs efforts when attempting to make those tackles. Chances was limited for us but for me our spine didn't look connected like i would expect and it looked like we was looking for individual efforts rather than team ones, this as been a issue so far this season not just yesterday, which was not helped by very poor distribution from acting half by Tom ingham, what we can do about this with Obrien out for the next couple of months other than bring someone else in. Thankfully we look to have come through with no injuries but with Fairbank banned for friday there will at least need to be 1 change from yesterday.

Nothing there that I don't agree with - I don't think they'll try and replace O'brien although I think messing about with the spine of the team to accommodate Widdop is a mistake, as it disrupts the team too much. The only replacement I can see for Fairbank is Hursey, especially as Campbell was limping just carrying on the kicking tee on Sunday. If Douglas recovery has altered would be good if the club could provide an update as based on last update from finn that I remember he should have been fit by now - seems pointless just padding out a squad with him each week if he's not fit. Apparently Tee Ritson is likely to be loaned out by Saints, couldn't really justify going for him as wing is one of the few areas we're not short - that said I'd still love to see him here.

Is Hursey injured? He was announced as a permanent signing but with him not even been named in the squad this weekend it looks more and more like some type of loan deal with Leeds especially with Campbell and Douglas both been named with no chance of playing.

Shudds & Hull could only muster a paltry 1653 for their game which actually puts our 1800 in a decent light.

Great effort by the lads, Cats obviously had the SL class but still thought 40-4 flattered them somewhat. If we had Worthington and Arundel in the centres there's no way we'd be shipping in the tries down the flanks that's been happening.

Also nice to see the attendance, and it beat the all SL clash down the road at Huddersfield.

FK knows what's going on half of time,there really needs to be better communication.Only just caught up with news that you have to sign someone on DR to carry water nowadays....

Wow that is really bad. Theres a number of teams in SL that would struggle so much if they ever lost the central funding they get.

Not to rehash old threads, however taking the Hudds v Hull attendance, how did some teams score ‘top’ marks for average crowds on the IMG matrix ?

Based on a 3 year average and seen as though we play Bradford this week, discussing what they did last season in artificially inflating their crowds before there was a proper audit process was actually quite smart of them as those figures will stay on record for the next couple of seasons. I remember when we played them and there must have only been about 1200 or so people in the ground and everyone was laughing as they gave out a crowd of over 4k. We didn't know at the time why, but we do now.

More fool us for voting for something we weren't even wick enough to use to our advantage....