Both sides completions rates were horrendous, yet another home game ruined by awful weather.

Our effort to win was there massively but our skill to execute was so poor, the amount of chances we had to win the game but didn’t take.

Field got a 70m break to get us under the sticks in the first half of GP and somehow against 12 we couldn’t score.

Another night of growing pains for Harry Smith, I’m a huge fan but his missed goal kicks and bad drop goal set ups were worrying.

Miski was our best player again.

King and Wardle are very good, disappointed to lose King next year (don’t think Keighran has anywhere near the same work rate).

KPP is better at prop than backrow. Plays much more direct and just runs straight and hard. Shame we’ve not got another good option for second row (Shorrocks not good enough to start in a grand final winning team IMO).

Nsemba very good, I’d been worried about him defensively but he put himself about. He solves the above problem as he comes on and KPP can go to prop.

French had a stinker and literally didn’t sprint with the ball once. We need to give him more freedom and switch him to fullback for a few sets when we have the ball.

2 points but not looking good.

My concern is Peet won't move French from the halves because if he did it would be an admittance that he was wrong to put him there in the first place.

We are desperate for a quality 6, we had enough field position to win the Hull game comfortably. It is our Achilles heel.

I understand what you're saying but other poor performances were not uniquely with French at 6. The point I'm making is that in all previous weeks he's made strong progress and because we had one poor performance in atrocious conditions when nobody played particularly well, it's all because French is at 6. We've won the majority of games when he's played there.

It's interesting that there's been, quite rightly, some good things said about Jake Clifford on these boards over the weeks yet even though he was busy being largely ineffective and kicking out on the full etc on Friday, no one is suggesting Hull should move him as "it isn't working". I bet Clifford would love the win ratio French currently has.

I’d like to think that Peet is bigger than that.
Basically we are playing a “project” player at 6 in the hope that he will eventually click. It’s verging on the absurd and wasting a wonderful talent. You can’t learn how to be a HB in half a season.
As I’ve said not sure what Peet will do. I thought Hampshire was the real deal a few years ago but he seems to have regressed over the years and unless he has some sort of resurgence he appears to be very much a squad player who will only get a game at HB in an emergency. It’s a pity young Farrimond isn’t a couple of years older.

Spot on with Farrimond, he looks a star of the future.