Season over and rightly so on that performance.
Two poors teams, one managed to tackle though. All that was good about our last two or three games straight out of the window. Hull strolled through our lacklustre defence seemingly at will.
Paddy was shocking today, but half the team were MIA.
Let's use the rest of the season now to try and find a team performance, and drop those who cba.

Think it's time to realistic now Andrew, the season has gone.

Sorry Mac the whole point about Herbert is that he chimes in from time to time with that nice pass for Platt or the kick for Roystaon but as a key pivot he is slow and ponderous and simply never takes control or injects tempo. I thought we overused the tactic of piling back into the ruck but even when it did come out Herbert's long pass is so slow it just puts the wide players under more pressure. Hull's centres were able to come out of the line time and time again to nail Jeffries and Kearney. I think this is a reason we make so many mistakes because our passing is under pressure as the opposition has too much time to get up on us.

I don't think it's scapegoating to say he's a key reason why our attacking structure is poor. He's not a SL half and picking him is a mistake.

Well beaten up front and we looked all at sea down our right in the face of Manu and Yeaman (predictably). We were out enthused at the beginning and that meant Hull had a winning lead that we couldn't reel in. Thought the scoreline flattered us a bit given that Hull bombed some clear chances. It was frustrating to see us go backwards after we've played much better in recent weeks. Why we came out so flat is beyond me.

Ah Van should be dropped for next week. If Sykes had played like that he'd have been lynched.

We were flat. Such an important game and we were flat. I'm going to point the finger at Potter for this one. He changed the backs to fit Royston in and left too many guys out of position.

Royston is a utility back but is not a winger.
Ah Van is not a very good centre.
Platt was on the bench - played well when he came on. But having a back on the bench left the bench a bit lightweight - especially when Scruton was not totally confident with his wrist.
And there was no urgency or intensity early on when it would have been useful. Instead we got headless chicken rugby at the end - which we hadn't had for a few games.

Today was our chance to push for the playoffs and yet again we failed to progress. We've had a good few weeks with some decent performances but we're back at square one again.

Not to be too negative but when looking at our next 5 games (Leeds, Catalans, Cas, Huddersfield & Wire) it's hard to see where our next win could come from.

Anyone know anything about a Hull coach with smashed windows???

You talking about Agar`s house?
















sorry,couldn`t resist.

Seemed like both teams were below par today, after the start we had we should have put more on you guys. Oh well, a win away in super league is always a good win. Good luck for the rest of your season.

Disappointed is one word I'd use to describe that performance. The opening thirty five minutes is what ultimately cost us as we didn't start playing till Royston scored four minutes out from half time. By which time the damage had been done with Hull FC in a commanding sixteen point lead. We put up a fight in the second half to no avail as mistakes put paid to a comeback, with Whitehead (2) and Ah Van dropping the ball over the line.

I'll also add no leadership, no real commitment, no motivation for what was our biggest game of the season and far too many players having an off day. We certainly missed Heath out there and while I wont jump on young Addy's back after his first game back, he came up with some silly errors when we had Hull in trouble (see the knock on in the first half).

Massive decisions need to be made regarding continuation and player requirement for season 2012, because who would have thought that Ah Van was playing for a new contract on today's showing?

We don't deserve to make the playoffs on the showing today.

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How can the fight and grit that we showed against St Helens be so conspicuous by its absence today? That's a question that the whole team have got to look in the mirror and answer honestly

A reasonably decent start, followed by 15 minutes where we simply didn't defend effectively put the game out of reach. We were lucky to still be in the game at half time, as Hull bombed a couple of decent opportunities to put the game well out of reach and then we get our two tries. We desperately needed to score first in the 2nd half, but instead let in a pretty soft effort. Then it was down to dumb football and mistakes that meant we were never really going to come back.

Hull were nothing special today, but we were worse. Plenty of effort from Lynch and Kopczak but Scruton didn't really look like he should have been thrown out there. Very little from Elima and even less from Langley meant that we were light in the forward (especially with only three forwards on the bench and Burgess hardly used).

I thought Herbert was OK today actually - but what is it with us constantly playing people out of position. At one point in the second half we had an entire backline of people playing out of position. Royston is patently not a winger, and I think Whitehead needs to be moved back into the pack.

As for Patrick AhVan he was poor last week, and worse this week. On this sort of showing he shouldn't be getting a contract for next year. To be honest he played like someone who has already been told he isn't getting one!

Looks like the Top 8 is over for another season. We've got to win two more games than Hull, and its hard to see how we'll do that frankly

Not a gloating Hull fan here; I think we are very ordinary, you guys must be gutted because your team are pretty much pathetic, from contenders to nobodies within 4 seasons? It just seems you let good players go and bring in cut price junk to replace them. Where next for your lot?