Well as predicted we have been caught out going into super league with just 1 pre season game under our belt!

Hull Fc were good, had alot more territory with a good kicking game and top defence which we failed to break down, hardly made any breaks!

Ellis and Shaul looked good for them.

Too early to really say much about our new signings, i really hope they dont turn huby into a battering ram though..he is the best ball playing forward in the league so we need to utilise this.

tough few weeks ahead with wigan and leeds away, 3 losses on the bounce? the widnes game could be interesting, lose that and Anderson could be in dange of losing his job.

shame as we had a decent crowd and dished up that performance, how many time has that happened, the bring a buddies wont be returning now.

when was the last time we got nilled at home?

I don't think we were caught cold at all, I think we played very poorly indeed. Hooker should be a strength in our team given the potential of Lunt and Robbo, both were woeful today, no threat running and dreadfully poor passing from dummy half.

I also question Paul Anderson's interchange strategy, first stint for Huby and Koppy was really long, with both clearly operating to instruction avoiding carries to keep up the defensive rate and play a long stint - result no platform, perhaps contributing to the poor hooker play. Our bench would have spanked Hulls if used correctly - too clever by half.

Not good enough, simple as.

Most of Hull's first team had a blow out game against york and 40 minutes against hull kr so they hardly hit the ground running. If you're relying on jamie ellis to provide anything this season you're in trouble IMO. Nowhere near good enough to be a starting SL half back

It is hard how much to read into it. We were poor no doubt about that, a lot slower to play the ball than Hull, in some parts due to Hull, but if thats the case make the ref give you the penalties, we just lacked real speed at PTB sometimes. Even in attack at times, then forcing it. Think we lost the forward battle from the off and should have had Tai on a bit more, seemed to be the only one with bit, and perhaps Mullaly. Same old though, wheres the mongrel.

Hull were ok, they were't brilliant, just did the simple stuff well. Murph deserved MOM I thought, although there wasn't a massive choice, jerry was ok despite Ellis' attempted decapitation, also did anyone else see his uppercut to Erol, dirty git. But Erol should have got stuck into him after that, but didn't.

But, I'll reserve judgement on what I think we might do after game 6-7.

LMFAO.......Hull player in 'dirty git' storm.......ohhh diddums.
Get over yourselves you arrogant t3ats.
Blaming your own players for not 'being good enough' is a cop out. Hull out played you in every aspect......period.
PS. Don't forget to blame the ref.

The ref was poor no doubt but doesn't take away the fact that our lot just didn't seem to have the will,belief or balls to put up much of a fight today hull were better in every department although they did nothing special apart from do the basics right.

Not sure why the rant at giants fans there..strange behaviour

The irony of the name voice of reason

We were awful, Hull did and were nothing special but did the basics right and got the reward.
Terrible start to what was an expectant start, the players looked like they didnt want the season to start yet.

Radford praised his sides defensive efforts, I can't see why we offered absolutely Zero in attack, there was nothing for them to defend!
Totally demoralising defeat for me as we showed nothing absolutely nothing

I was kind of half expecting that. Still stung though. Seemed to be a continuation of the frailties of last season . Forcing the pass, lack of patience, brough being a mardy bum from 1 minute in, lack of devil / mongrel / snot, line speed and kick chase not quite up to it. Hopefully just lack of pre season match time, as aside from possibly Connor I don't see any player a substantial game changer to bring in.

Quick turnaround and big team next May do us a favour. COYG.

Hull haven't really got up to full speed yet - new players in key positions still very much bedding in. So not spectacular but thankfully our A game wasn't really required today.

Your C game wasn't required today either!

I don't know what we expected...

Robinson and Lunt sharing the hooking roles. Both are slow, not great distributors of the ball and compared to other hookers in the league they're not particularly good at tackling. Roby did 70 tackles the other night, I doubt they did 50 combined. These two are responsible for controlling our attacking game.. god help us! Don't worry though Robinson has 3 more years to get it right