A tremendous effort yesterday from the lads defensively, don't think we could have asked anymore from them. They put their bodies on the line in that game and anyone who was there can't question the desire, attitude and application that they showed. It was a complete contrast from the game against Wigan, however, Hull aren't the best side and with their continued insistence on driving it up the middle instead of getting it out wide did make it easier for us. But take nothing away from Saints' tackling yesterday, they did amazing to concede 3 tries.

Thought Josh Jones was outstanding. Turner didn't get a sniff all game because of the defensive work of Jones, he had him in his pocket. He has come into the side and done so well for someone so young and once he has another 2-3 years of first team experience we might have a very good centre on our hands.

Adam Swift was impressive too. He has very good footwork and for someone who isn't a winger by trade and won't play there for the rest of his career he has performed very well when asked to play. This will go on to give him confidence for his next apperance and the coaching staff now know that he can do a job in that position.

I can't really fault many players to be honest. The attacking game needs a complete over haul but it's easy to see why it suffered yesterday. Hohaia's try was tremendous and Swift's was a very good individual effort but to really improve attacking wise we need to repect the ball more than we do. There were occassions when we gave the ball up needlessly which caused more tackling to be done. Lessons need to be learned from that as on another day we could have conceded a lot more points had we not defended so well or come up against a better team than Hull.

I still wish they would have run that last penalty though!!

I think you can use Jones on both sides of the ball. Defensively he is very good and although we have yet to really see much attacking play we have seen glimpses to suggest he has talent offensively too. I'd like to see him get more of the ball in the coming weeks to showcase his talents. I really didn't see much of Turner with the ball to make me think that we have to sign him, basically down to Jones shutting him down.

Same could be said of Shenton against Willie Manu. Shenton did very well yesterday and really nulified what attacking threat Hull have on their left hand side.

Personally I think Turner is overated, his improvements this year have been more down to better defensive structures with in the team, he looks very good against the poor and middle teams (did last year), but then looks average against the better teams.

Manu is an outstanding signing though, in the top 3 backrows forwards in the league (forget his age), hardly ever gets injured adnd regulary does 80 minutes.

Just seen the match report from Saints. It sounds like we could have won it if the ref had not blown early for a Hull FC knock on.

Even Rush says he wishes we could have run it but the gamble would not have been a very good pay off if it went wrong.

Thank goodness Wello had more sense than just about everyone. At least he was thinking tactically even if nobody else was.

That's one way to look at it, but Longy may have run it!!