When looking through your side, I do think you look a little light at Prop - but remains to be seen

O.A-B out,so 1 to 7 is a foregone conclusion I reckon.

The new improved for 2021 James Gavet recipe might mean one side of the front row is taken care of. No Michael Lawrence in the squad but Matty English included.

Speculating he might go with the following -

Gaskell
Jez Jake Ricky Darnell
Sezer Cogger
Jones
McQueen Edwards
English Cunningham Gavet

Yates,Greenwood,Ashworth,O'Brien/Wilson

(Trout,Cudjoe,Russell,O'Brien/Wilson)

Half time - under the pump but we are hanging in there,only chance keep the defensive pressure on and hope Hull start making some errors.

Outmuscled, outenthused, outthought, outsmarted, completely outplayed. So far, lucky to have nil.

A lot of work for Watson to do.

That was utter gash, hopefully Watson now realises that however good Ollie Russell looks in training he aint no super league player. Would have been 40-0 if Hull had not been rusty. I was at least hoping for an expansive style of play, but no same old one up e, only time backs touch the ball is to run out of defence.

Fairly obv already we lack real size in the front row to bother a team like Hull in 2021, though Watto seems to be getting the best out of James Gavet which is a massive plus. Because of that lack of size up front maybe it's time to get Louis Senior and Sam Wood onto the wings now, big lads with plenty to prove get us close to half way on plays 1 and 2 kick returns. Without Cunningham locking up the middle ruck we were constantly on the back foot at the start of second half so got no decent field position, in fact just constantly on the back foot throughout the whole game.

Why were sezer and Wardle not in squad?

Doubt Sezer could have made much of a difference to that. Maybe the biggest puzzle is why a big lump of a forward like Ashworth could not even make the bench.

Obvious our plan was to sometimes shift it wide coming out of our own half away from their power pack, but sadly that didn't really get us anywhere.

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Plenty of knee jerking on Facebook.

Not the best day at the office . Whilst our go forwards from the pack was not the best we held them pretty well in the middle and won the second half !

won the second half by how many points exactly ? lol

Bugger I can count. At least we drew the second half which considering how poor we were is not a bad result

I think we (Hull) were always favourites for this tie; simply because of the amount of new players in your team and key pivots you were missing. I am a bit surprised Watson picked Gaskill at fullback though, he is a number 6 everyday for me and Darnell Mackintosh has always looked great when I have seen him at number 1. I think both teams showed enough to suggest they will possibly threaten the top 4 , although we lack pace in the backs and that will bite us against speedier teams who can match up in the forwards.
a good hit up - both coaches will have learned from it and I fully expect you to be there or thereabouts in the play-offs , injuries permitting.

I was expecting more from you guys yesterday - in the end, quite comfortable for us and eased through the 2nd half. I am sure you will improve though over the coming weeks

Hull were deserved winners. They tackled well and made very few mistakes. A good game plan well executed.

Clearly Giants had 6 new players which will take a while to gel. My worry is that Luke Yates, Josh Jones and Joe greenwood are all Michael Lawrence types of players who tackle loads, work hard but don't create much. Only Kenny Edwards is a flair player in the forwards.

In the backs father time has caught up with Leroy and is catching up with Jerry who has deteriorated (compared to his own very high standards). Ollie Russell gives 100% but for me is a top quality championship standard player.

I wouldn't put Darnell near full back. He's just not a clever enough rugby player.

Watson has work to do but early days.