We may well surprise a few next Friday in Wigan. I am expecting a big response (hope I am right). It has never been easy following Hull, but I do believe that AP was the best thing to happen to this club. It was always going to take time, but he is a good businessman, who is willing to invest in the right areas to move the club forward. The club needs to be built on young British talent wherever possible and progress has been made there.

Will be a least one change if the rumour of Jay Pitts dislocated shoulder is true

Not 100% but im sure he looked ok today

Think Wigan could field a team of their youngsters and still give us a game, they seem to be as well drilled as the first team and just seem to slot in easily

The players may be better for the experience but the attack is simply not good enough. From what I get told a lot of the players just can't get the attacking side of what Gentle wants onto the pitch.

Also the sheer amount of energy we use to defend means we are sacrificing dummy runners which ultimately is our down fall. The half backs will cop a lot of stick but they can't make players do dummy runs or take different lines. Yeaman only ever seems to try and power his way on the outside of a player, Tickle only ever runs on the inside and Ellis seems to just do too much defensively which is affecting his attack. Think we employ too many dumb players who all need to go before we will get better in this department.

The only way to change the mentality of this club is to wash away the old and nurse young players into a great squad, it will take time unfortunately. Regardless of the final we did well to get to wembley which is something to build on but we need more then great defence .

fair post, hopefully miller will blossom next year as think hes done well overall, sprinkle in some more signings , youngsters have another year under the belt, jobs a good one ,