i'll go along with that and add that Powell will never be a hooker as long as he has a hole in his bum

Oh he was dangerous alright.

Your performance tonight. Looked like a team who expected to win comfortably and wasn't prepared for Hull to put up the fight they did.

Well, all coaches. SW included, preach, defence, defence, defence, get the opposition nilled,etc. And we did let in some soft tries tonight. But from my point of view as a fan, I'm pleased to see our attack looking better as it has in recent weeks. I feel defence can (and needs to be) worked on in training, but a fluent attack is harder to get right. But to beat the best we need both of course. As said, the Hull lads put up a spirited effort to their credit, and we ended up with an entertaining game of footy. I've mentioned before the old fella in my local, Bath fan, who's come down the pub to watch a few games this season, and he rang me at work to day to see if I was going down to watch the game, and he thoroughly enjoyed it. Still, we'll need to be much better than that to lift silverware this season, but it's all in our hands.

With the exception of Gildart all those players are much more experienced and older than they Hull equivalent. Wigan get plenty of credit and I'm sure either other club (Leeds and Saints apart) are jealous of Wigans academy. We had a hull players who did a great pick up, handed a player off and ran 90 metres to score and all the commentators did was talk about was Batemans chase back, without a mention of Shaul.

We had nothing to play for, away at the 2nd best side in SL with 12 or so players out, we also lost Lineham and Shaul during the game, had Shaul stayed on I reckon we could have won it and he was causing you problems when down to 12 men.

Very pround as a Hull fan and I hope we can emulate Wigan and Leeds model and bring success the right way.

Not much older, and only "experienced" because they have been given it... How many foreign players you got next year?

About the same as Leeds, but they don't get c

Most are two years older, so when they were 18/19 like ours was last night they were eased into the first team. There is the odd exception like Burgess, I suppose like Abdul for Hull.

I'm not coming on here for an argument, I'm just glad invest on our youth is finally paying off and we can seek the rewards.

Back onto overseas players 3 of the ones we have signed are top class and would get into most SL clubs.

Hopefully we will have the right balance next year to have a go at the top 4.

It's not an argument, just pointing out that we HAVE done what you say, eased them in, you have not. Bringing Leeds in is just deflection, we are talking about Hull having an problem where they HAVE to play youngsters. We rested players last night, and still had a young team. I hope you do get the balance right...

I liked the 'Whats it like to play our kids' chant

I just watched an interview with Wane on Wigan TV.. He said Hull ave age 21, ours was 22... I have not checked the stats. But it should be remembered that Wigans team is very young.

Sorry to come in a bit late on this but people more eloquent than me have been discussing it, but I must say that I fall within the camp of the fans that think that Rocky is being treated unfairly.

Yesterday I had a look at some of Rockys stats since debut.

2013 season 4 starts at fullback, 1 start at standoff and 2 on the subs bench.
2014 season 4 starts at fullback, 0 starts at standoff and 4 on the subs bench.
2015 season (to date) 12 starts at fullback, 3 at standoff (1 of these was an emergency when Williams broke down in the warm up) 1 on the bench.
I know these are only figures and all they show is Wane is either trying to protect Rocky or a marked reluctance to play him at standoff.

Then we come to some more stats for Matty Smith for the same period.
2013 season 30 appearances.
2014 season 32 appearances.
2015 season (to date) 27 appearances, only missing one match due to suspension.
As the season has gone on Matty has looked more and more jaded, but when some fans have said he needs a rest others say "he is the only goal kicker we have".
Over the last few weeks Matty has given the goal kicking job up, this can be only be down to loss of confidence in is own kicking ability or he is carrying an injury. If it is the latter and he is carrying an injury it only bears out what some fans are pointing out the reluctance of Wane to play Rocky in the halves.
Yesterday was the prime case for Matty to be rested in what was supposed to be an easy run out, bring Rocky into the halves and then bring Matty back for the Saints match.

Wow.....