Horne has been a decent player for Hull, I just can't see the 'legend' status some seem keen to bestow on him. Average super league player in an average super league team, the fact he's a Hull lad seems to cloud peoples' view of him.

I didn't go against Rovers but it sounded like Hull had very little ball in the game and what we did have was near our own line. Halves will struggle to impress on that basis. Yesterday our forwards crossed the game line regularly and we made fewer mistakes and gave away far fewer penalties. Much easier for the halves to operate in that scenario.

Was talking to the bro-in-law about O'carroll and he was saying that when he and Prescott came through,O'Carroll was the better of the 2 but the injury did for him and put him down the pecking order.

Half back in playing well behind dominant pack shocker.

I said last week a lot were overly critical of Horne in a game where he no time or field position. This week it sounds like your pack dominated Bradfords and as such the HB's made hay. Isn't this usually the way with RL.

He was always the better prospect, the question mark with him was his injuries. If those are behind him then we have an excellent young prop.

Spot on. Not undermining Rovers but I don't think your pack was particularly dominant. The issue was you kicked much better and we made too many mistakes which meant we did far too much defending and were constantly coming off our own line. Took it's toll in our first preseason game, especially 2nd half.