Can't help but wonder if Langley carried an injury into today's game. He was clutching his ribs in the Saints game, hard to believe he was 100%.

Bulls 'cup final' next week

At least the Team won't have any more "Golfing" days to disrupt their training! though that isn't the excuse they can put forward it was a flat low energy performance which makes one look at the Coaching Staff a bit closer and ask what WTF are they doing??

The only positive from today was the crowd of 14,414

That picture looks strangley like the bulls going for a tap after finding touch from a penalty!!! You did well to capture that picture, unless of course it was in the last 5 mins when he tried to even up the count

That said i wont blame the ref for todays perfomance.

Bentham gave us two penalties inside the first eight minutes. We didn't get our third penalty till the 66th minute by which time he had given Hull FC eight in a row (one which was Ah Van out on the full).

Interesting to know that we went 58 minutes with $$$$ all.

How does the attendance today compare with previous games?

It took MP 25 mins and two tries to realise that our right side of defense was a weak link, and to bring on Platt and swap Whitehead over to shore that side up. Pretty much demonstrating the game plan was awry from the off. Having Platt on the bench seemed very odd, given the pack we were facing and the fact that Addy was there for Diskin and he can play 80 mins if needed. Herbert did some ok stuff, but still can't execute the short flat pass more than 50% of the time, added to that Jeffries did his familiar act of going missing and that left no-one except Matt Diskin trying to offer any leadership in the last 20mins when the game was still within our grasp. That last 20 was very revealing, nobody directing play, no depth, pat a cake down the line and individual effort without structure or organisation, we quickly became poor, flat and uninspired, a sad way of dropping out of contention really.

Im orry but for too long we have got used to players who do a couple of good things a game, for a halfback a 40/20 and 3 good attacking kicks is not good enough, Herbert cannot kick for position, too many times he kicked it to the FB or Winger, or dead in goal. He needs to turn the defenders around. Also 2 good passes a game is not good enough, he does that flatball too many times, there was 3 times where if he gave it to the back man we would have had a 3 on 2 overlap.

Ah Van had an absolute shocker however is not a Centre, put him back on the Wing, he's a lot better there, Crookes is a Centre not a Winger, Royston did well today considering this is his 3rd positon of the year, put Whitehead in the pack where he belongs, and move Platt to Centre.

I'm not judging Addy yet as I believe he will do well at Hooker. Burgess needs more gametime, Langley was crap today. Elima and Sibbit did ok.

Big mentions to Kopczak and Lynch who played really well.

Why are we playing panic rugby?? FFS we don't need to panic. And have the Bulls ever thought to tackle the LEGS????

Hull looked like they wanted the points more for me, we allowed them to play the ball quicker and we didn't look interested in that deprtment for me. Potter needs to pick a consistent team and where possible stick with it..Sibbits a poor squad player, Ah van had a shocker, Lynch doesn't have the old dependability about him and neither does Langley. Recruitment for next season will dictate what our ambitions are...

We missed Heath.

Couldn't agree more

Royston was announced at centre, and then immediately went out onto the wing. That right hand side was an obvious weak link for us - and no wonder with a Full Back/Centre on the Wing, and a second rower in the Centre. The defence for that third try for especially woeful.

The obvious backline today would have been Ah Van, Platt, Royston, Crookes

Was Rayner injured today? If not where was he? Because nobody can tell me that we wouldn't have been stronger with Ah Van, Platt, Royston, Rayner as our backline today, rather than the mish-mash we had