I thought todays win was a great 2 points clubs like Waky usually start really well they like to get points on the board early Wigan's and leeds like to grow into the season and peak at the end it was a potential banana skin for us and we over came that by sheer determination and will to win there was not a lot between us but I thought territorially we won the first half and was more dominant that's why when given our penalty's from the ref we where able to convert to two points and you weren't both try's came from speculative kicks and where a little lucky our forwards dominated ours that's why we won good solid away win at a difficult place and team to go in round one
best of luck this year no ones going down its going to franchising next year and 14 teams

3 early penalties One for a questionable high shot but no problem with that and two more after Houghton cynically chose to throw the ball into a Wakefield player. Nothing against the rules but not the sort of play I like seeing in Rugby League.

I say the conditions suited Hull more than Wakefield because Hull have a back line built for power rather than athleticism.

Not one sided just saying it as it was.
Other than the cynical stuff I've no problem with Hull FC and before you think I'm just being a sore loser you should read my posts about the same cynical behaviour of Leigh's players which were written before today's game.

Good old fashioned match full of physicality though

Good luck for the season

You obviously haven't seen the highlights.

1st pen, player gets in the way, not allowing Houghton to even pick up the ball, Houghton doesn't throw the ball at the player.

2nd pen, clear head high tackle on Watts, 100% pen.

3rd pen, bit sneaky of Houghton, but pen should have been given before that as player was in the way, making it hard to pick up the ball.

Don't agree about hulls style, last year yes, but this year we have signed 3 very attacking backs and Radford wants to play rugby.

But today wasn't a day for attacking out-wide rugby, Radford knows it and Ellis said it, it was a day for the forwards. And as you say, that's what Hull knew how to do last year and nothing has changed. Today was the day for Hull's style, it suits what they know how to do

Good sides can adapt, to be honest apart from the last 10, I didn't think Wakey played much more expansive than us, think both teams made one good break, apart from that it was a battle and some great defence.

Anyway I'm off to bed, still haven't warmed up , good to have some decent debate, with no name calling etc. See you next time

o from 3

To call the match today mediocre is bonkers beyond belief. It was a hard fought contest in foul conditions that had tension right up to the final whistle. Both sides made some errors - understandably - but our defence was superb. Hull hardly looked like scoring a try and the one they did score was from a superb kick from them and a bit of bad luck on our part. The only concern for me is that we still lack the guile or the punch to convert pressure on the opponents' line in to points. I came away feeling disappointed but very optimistic about the season ahead.

regardless of closeness we again failed to beat a big club when we had the chance- we got and are on 0 points!!!!! with 2 away games to come 0 from 3

How'd you figure we're on 0 from 3? Have we already lost those games?

What happened to your score prediction.
You had Hull by 30 and they scraped home by 4.

Plus we play Hudds next, a team that we beat 3 times last season and we will be looking to come away with 2 points from that one.

Let's see what you are posting in 2 weeks from now.

What A clown you are , if you'd watched the game then you would have seen two teams battling it out in terrible conditions and could have gone either way.

That's even more bonkers than the OP.

could of should OF - we got the same amount of points if we were beaten by 50... 0

Could have should have....
And, if we'd lost 50 - 0 we'd now be bottom of the table. As it is we're 8th. So not the same at all.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz try attending a game. The lads worked their socks off today, a man down. Game could've gone either way & I saw enough to be looking forward to the next game!