Russell certainly showed a few players how to return the ball, every carry was like his life depended on it, great energy and enthusiasm. Let's hope it rubs off on a few of our younger players.

Embarrassing afternoon. Poor discipline all over the pitch. Bombed 2 trys which would have made it less nervy. Won’t win many games against anyone with our discipline.

Can I have the lottery numbers for next week then because you seem to know a lot about what’s going to happen in the future.I agree with most of your post which actually surprised me as normally your a moaning bugger for no reason =#FF0000comment removed

This is what we need to learn to expect now , a poor bottom half of the league team , who won’t challenge for trophies for a good few years . Quicker people realise that the better , we are not a big club anymore. Only way that will change is if someone puts money into the club like a few other clubs or Pearson comes into some money some how .

We need to cope with adversity better, that's what the likes of Wigan and Saints do.

Take the sin binning of Russell, within a couple of minutes we had a great chance in the corner where he would have been attacking. Okunbor and Tuimavave make a right horlicks of an overlap, we lose posession and promptly give away a penalty.

Weve massively underfunded the half back position and i know some are lauding morgan smith, but hes not the answer at all, i have him down as being tony smiths game management on the pitch and for me its our biggest flaw glaringly.

Alot bagging Sao for the offload, but why on the 5th is morgan smith giving to sao that far out instead of kicking??

I said this before the game, Nu Brown needs to be at hooker with Balmforth off the bench adding some attack. Look at Martin and Stavely who are playing really well, yet were proceeding with a way past his sell by date Houghton.

I quite enjoyed the game, in an ideal world we stuff london but weve our 1st choice props missing, an aldi price hooker in smith and tony smith dragging his over balmforth in a team thats lacking attack and creativity.

Russel, ashworth, walker, martin, staveley all really good
I thought okunbor looked busier, unlucky with the ball strip he didnt get.

Hes got big decisions to make on jordan lane and houghton soon and i think he l frustrate the fans further by keeping them in at the detriment of the team.

With most back id have to go something like this from what ive seen so far.

Walker
Martin
Sutcliffe
Carlos
Mcintosh/russell/tindall
Trueman kicking duties
Hoy
Eseese
Nu brown
Ashworth
Staveley
Okunbor
Sao

Subs
Balmforth
Pele
J brown
Jebson/lane

Until investments made in the way of marquee signings were majorly lacking quality in key areas. No excuses next season, no covid handcuffs

Truth be told I think Smith has had his hands tied from day 1, when you have to give away your best player to sign a scrum half in your first few weeks tells you the story of what he inherited.

Clifford leaving late in the season left us in the lurch and we missed out on numerous targets, I think part of the reason we got Brown was a hail mary signing. It may work it may not, given his 1 year contract. I doubt he would have being the highest priority to sign and maybe the thinking is he wants Smirh and Trueman in the halfs which will put Brown at hooker. That is something we speculate.

Im getting the same message from the club time and time again, peanuts is going into the first team and that is being reflected. Almost as if the task is turn our youth team into world beaters, that certainley wont happen overnight. Until we get a decent spine other players wont be at there best either too.

We are definetley having to sign scraps, the recruitment shows that. I find it baffling Pearson finally appoints a proven RL coach then gives him a shoe string budget.

You know what they say. If can win whilst playing poorly, it's the sign of a good team.

First points on the board. It's onwards and upwards.

Bring on the Dragons for us to slayer.

I couldn't decide if London are better than they are estimated or we are poorer than I thought?

I couldn't understand Houghton being shoehorned back into the team. We were out of balance just to accommodate him.
NZ international hooker or an ageing non international hooker, it's a no brainer for me.
Nu at 9, Smith at 6 and throw young Charles in at 7 to start. It's good for his development and shows faith in the youngsters because we need their youthful exuberance desperately in our team of clueless plodders.
Smith may not have the financial backing for expensive signings but defensive line speed, attacking structure and discipline are all within his remit and can anyone say there's been any improvement?
We seem to be spending more on backroom staff but not seeing an improvement in the team.
Not sure Tony is the man any longer, has the game passed him by?

Asked by Hull Live why Hoy missed out, Smith replied: "It was just a team selection call based on combinations. It was an opportunity for somebody else to show what they can do in the half-back position.

Is he the new Joe Biden?
He cant remember we have already tried Smith/Brown combo

smith has it totally wrong with brown.hes not a 7 and would be far better in a heremia type role at 9.why he is playing houghton at 9 and keeping him on the all match is beyond me,i thought we de got past all that.even in his post match talk he gives morgan smith the plaudets,but adds,he can play a few positions.we need a few specialists in the side ,not a team of players who can play in a few positions.