Quote: Deus Dat Incrementum "I don't think that we lost a lot of possession through throwing the ball about too much. Gidley was pinged for crossing twice. Currie was dragged into touch and lost the ball straight from a tap penalty. Ormsby came up with a couple.
Last week against saints we had 3 chances in the first half and scored on each attempt. Westerman and Clark just had to catch a ball and we would have been 12 points better off.
I do think there was a couple of spells where if we had better ball security for 3 or 4 sets that Hull would have started to fade. They had a lot of big units and turning them around was starting to cause them trouble but a small error like I have mentioned above let them off the hook.
I remember the challenge cup semi against Leeds at Langtree Park and errors cost us the game. We just couldn't build any pressure and that was similar.
I hope that was just a one off and we learn just to respect possession a bit more for the odd spell because big sides like Hull and catalan will get tired.
Fair play to Hull fc though. They remind me a bit of Bradford from 15 years ago. Massive pack and huge wingers who take a lot of energy to put down. I don't think they were massively creative but will take some stopping if they stay injury free.
A lot of our game plan relies on smaller blokes running at big tired forwards (Clarke, dwyer, ratchford, sandow, Russell) but we never made Hull defend enough to see them start to drop off tackles.'"
Hull's pack isn't particularly big, it's just there is a lot of quality in there. taylor and pritchard are the only big forwards. They do seem to be particularly well conditioned and we've won plenty of games in the last 15-20 minutes of late.
As for smaller blokes running at tired forwards, I'll counter yours with sneyd, tuimavave, shaul and houghton.
2 well matched teams on Friday in appalling conditions. Hull's forwards gave them the edge and nullified wire's better half backs IMO
