If I were to explain it i'd say that the huge build up - with the film beforehand and then the players running out with their own kids etc might have played a part - they started off like a storm and if that'd been left to develop it might have been completely different. The sin-binning and the couple of tries Hull got back immediately plus another just on Jefferies return meant we started playing as individuals and panicking, probably partly because of the huge expectation they were carrying on their shoulders. Mistakes built upon mistakes and Hull were on their game and Shrek and Lynch were superb in making metres and off loading. Logically the best team won, but I'd love to have seen the game without the sin-binning.

Remember Eddie's only happy when he's moaning. This lot of players have made me proud to be a Bulls fan on lots of occasions this year, and I knew someday that our 71-0 defeat of Hull post CC win would eventually be given us back, what goes around etc, love the fact they can't get KR out of their minds even when thrashing us though, and of course their fans are largely great fun and good humoured tonight for obvious reasons!

Well done Hull, COYB playoffs still there to be claimed, just need Widnes and Wigan to do us a favour.

Was anyone else a little surprised at the announced attendance?
All season long we have counted season ticket holders in the announced figure, regardless of whether or not they were actually in the stadium at the time.

So how did they reach a figure of 10k last night, when we have circa 10k season ticket holders and there were a decent amount of Hull fans behind the sticks?

Is it because the club have been fudging the figures all year?

Never 10k there last night.

And people scratch their heads at why you can't pay your bills!!

As with most sporting clubs the attendance announced is the number of tickets sold (including season tickets around 10,200) not the number in attendance. Man Utd do it this way too.

But the point is that being made is that the attendance was given as just over 10,600 - and they were certainly considerably more than 400 Hull fans there

So I can only assume we didn't count all of the season ticket holders for some reason?

I understand that bit. I mentioned it to Adeybull at the match, the announced figure should have been nearer 12,500 IMO.