Not to be in the 4...only to finish 2nd.

It was a game of defences tonight ,both of which were superb . Our problems were gifting Saints a try at the start of the second half & being unable to open up gaps in the 10 metre area. Roberts's kicks were repetitive & ineffective ,apart from depriving a Saints fan of his pint & i don't know why Patton wasn't brought on sooner for the drop kicks.
Fair result !

I just saw Roberts’ attempted tackle on Lomax right after half time, it was an effort of someone with no heart or desire whatsoever.

I think that was us not getting stuck back in straight after half time. Concentrate and keep up effort for full 80 and that try isn't scored.

One brainless idiot you mean!

I thought we were great.
Still loads of improvements to come. Especially from Roberts.
We should have won that game 5 times. I can only see Wire fixing those issues and Winning every game from now on if they play at least that well.

I loved that one who thought he was 10 men because he was full of ale so rushed towards the players brawl then visibly cacked himself. When Mike Cooper just started laughing at him I was in fits.

Don't forget too wash that sand out of your hair, rd
Great, my bottom.
No tries in 75 minutes. We could've stayed there all night,, and not scored another try. We are CLUELESS when we're the opposition 20.
Last night, we we ran up so many blind alleys, it was untrue. And SLOW. At least 5 times our players were caught ball watching. Schoolboy stuff.
imo, the standard of SL has never been as low, yet we don't take advantage.
MADDENING
Our halves create NOTHING
Why can't you see us NOT fixing issues. That's late close defeats to Wigan, Saints and Cas, and a draw against Les Cats, in the last 6 weeks. I see a trend happening, and it's not improvement

Still, you were correct about improvements, especially from Roberts.
He can't do worse, can he?

That sand gets everywhere, when you bury your head in it

I don't care about where we are come round 639 or the possibility that if we play our semi when jupiter is ascending we're nailed on to win. I'm a wires fan and I want to win every game - friendlies, testomonials, challenge cup, Sl the lot. Winning whatever the context is all that matters in sport.

In terms of last night, and also against Wigan and Catalans, we lost for the same reasons and I don't see it getting fixed until next year.

Roberts is a lazy sod. Defence or attack, a workshy intruder.

In the pack our starting 6 are trojans. Cooper, Clark, Westwood & Hughes were immense last night. Then we look at the bench and we have BMM and Akauola who give penalties away as cheaply as they give yards to the defence.

Cruicially, we don't have a general who leads, directs, prompts and cajoles with venom, guile and football [iintelligence[/iwhen games get tight. If Austin is that man we'll turn the what ifs into points.

Not one single chance created by our half backs, we score a try from broken play and then nothing but penalties. That must be as poor a creative pairing as we have ever seen, all that ball provided by an outstanding forward pack and nothing gained.

Send Roberts home now, an absolute waste of time, give Dec the job at the very least he will be trying to create and no doubt succeed

Roberts is getting a lot of stick and rightly so but Kevin Brown was truly awful again and did nothing.

Akaoula made one carry in 20 minutes - that is absolutely shocking.

wow chillout guys - we played well we just dont know how to close out a game! Ask A Hull fan what a bad performance is!

In comparison to where i thought we'd be after a complete clearout last summer im delighted that we can give the 'best team super leagues ever seen' (according to sky) a game

We just need to learn how to close out tight games. Mr Briers step forward - you need to teach our playmakers how to set-up for a drop goal

On reflection I really don’t think sending somebody home and promoting from the bench will make us anymore creative.
If we had of dropped a goal late on last night and won the game would we be more confident of doing it again in a big semi/final later in the season? A bit happier short term maybe but more confident next time? I’m not so sure. Assuming we stay in the top 4, which we should, we only really need to nail that final play/drop goal once possibly when it really matters.
Has anybody at the club thought of a foil for Roberts in a drop goal situation? Every man and his dog knows it’s going to him! Like Wigan did a couple of weeks ago, giving the ball to Woods as we all ran at Tomkins. Or is everybody else at the club useless at them? Practice then for later in the season.
I also hope everybody is not expecting Austin to start taking the lead for us from day 1 next year. From what I’ve seen of him he looks ok. More of a runner than an organiser, suspect defence like most halves, a 6 not a 7. Just don’t see all our problems being solved straight away with him and Brown/Patton.
Tyrone Roberts may repeat his drop goal attempts from last night next week v Leeds or in a semi-final/Grand final and he will rightly be blasted but somebody else needs to step up and give us another option. Or Roberts could nail it next week. It would be about time! Time will tell.

Cooper 19 carries for 124 metres, 24 tackles made 8 tackles missed

Thompson 17 carries for 126 metres, 32 tackles made 1 tackle missed

That is one stern lesson handed out there!

Keep dreaming Sunshine

I thought it was much more digestible seeing Saints win from a penalty kick than if the ball had have got shipped out to Richardson on 80mins + 1 sec and banged over a DG.