I think our areas of improvement need to come from:
creative roles within the team (1, 6,7,9)
pack leader, i.e. a big powerful experience prop

Tomkins will provide the 'x factor' from the back, he has to be played at FB. No one else in our team can come close to Sam, he needs to be played at FB given a free role to attack either flank running out wide either attacking the line or setting up his outside backs. At half back you're looking for someone to 'set up' other players/ball runners as a play maker, often only operating on one side of the pitch.

Who should be in the halves? Williams will come good. He's young, will attack the line and has a quick step. Smith, questionable. He's a good player but is he good enough? That's the debate. Hampshire? I don't get the hype to be honest, not in the senior team at least, if he would have impressed massively he wouldn't be bench warming at Cas.

I like Micky as a player, never been sold on him as a 9 though. I think he'd be a good 13, hardworking tackling machine and enforcer.

Tomkins
Charnley (although his 'facial injury' is an odd one') Sarge Gelling Manfredi
Williams (NEW 7)
Flower (NEW 9) Lockers
Bateman Faz
Micky
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NEW INTERCHANGE 9 NEW EXPERIENCE PROP Clubb, J Tomkins

Matty Smith worlds best number 7...

Got to give it to Smith. He messed up by kicking dead at a crucial time to hand Hull the lead but to fight back and drop two goals over should give him a lot of confidence.

It hardly handed Hull the lead. They did have 80 metres to go!!!

I assume you are referring to the grubber which went touch in goal rather than touch, resulting in a 20m restart rather than the desired 10m scrum. I think NK is referring to the kick off which went out on the full, which is a penalty of the halfway, so after the penalty kick to touch they would have had 30-40 to go with a full set. Surely you can't deny it was a big let off for them and strongly contributed to their comeback?

Having said that, impressed with Smith for nailing both drop goals and making the decision to go for them. I've been critical of him the past few weeks for not even going for the one point on offer at crucial times but he did the job twice here. Last season he tended to miss one before he got one as well but none of that on Friday. Ideally he would have kicked the touchline conversion, not given away big penalty and either put the grubber in touch or kicked the second drop goal at that point but I know he's not Thurston, or even Sinfield. He did the job well here.

My mistake, I remembered the grubber but conveniently forgot the kick off!

He seems to have added to his range doesn't he, unless there was a strong wind behind that kick. Anyway you are right, that was a bad error.

Referring to the last drop goal, he was very clever, he organised the backs to his right in plain view so that the defence weren't able to push up on him, thus keeping them honest. It gave him the chance to measure his kick instead of rushing it.