loving your avatar king kenny!!!!

No hard luck story here I'm afraid.

There pack went well, their backs carried a threat and they kicked & completed. Lots of under par performances from us today, we looked jaded.

I like a bloke who knows what he is talking about.

Look you know,and we know, you are extracting the urine.

Was it a case of the ageing bodies not being able to back up after so short a turnaround?

I don't think so, we were flat. Blokes coming in who didn't feature like Blythe & King didn't stand out to sort of 'highlight fatigue' if you like, we just couldn't complete and Hull strike me as a side that you have to out complete, it's one of Stevo's 'armwrestle' sort of .

I seem to recall that this has been pointed out to our Wire friends before.... But they seem to have faith in their ageing pack...

According to Rovers fans,we are "Dads Army."
Not a bad result for some fogeys.

Fair summary. The relative energy levels in the second half surprised me a bit - looked like you were the ones who'd played a draining derby on Friday rather than us. Tickle, Dowes and Fitz have played a shedload of minutes for us over the weekend and I think the result was simply down to us wanting it more today.

I've just put exactly that on another thread, you'd think we had been in a derby game on Friday.

I think we were just dumb today, to be honest. To win the game we had to almost go pack v pack and just let the openings present themselves, kick and compete over & over, we just lacked patience. Almost back our pack, against what I think when all fit might be the best pack in the league (one of anyhow).

Massive credit to Hull, did all the little things better.

so wigan aint got any players on the wrong side of the 30s then apart from fieldon , deacon , roberts , carmont , coley ..... didnt think so jog on

No I think we are aware that players will need replacing, although its not like the whole side will retire together. But remember we were top of the league going into today and have beaten the SL champions Wigan twice on their own park in the last two meetings between the sides....so the faith is not misplaced.

I remember an ageing Wigan pack, under Mike Gregory, with Craig Smith, Pongia, Terry O'Connor and Cassidy in it, getting to the Grand Final...unfortunately Wigan recruited badly for a few years after that and went downhill, so we have to get the recruitment decisions right.