That is fair but even if we’re just talking about last night, it reflects the fact that Hull FC have chosen to base their depth almost entirely around inexperienced academy products. It’ll be interesting to see if that tendency is quite as pronounced after Myler starts to reshape the squad.

I tried swapping out Rovers players, trying to pick fair equivalents. The starting 13 looked fine, although after Storton the bench was youthful. Not a 17 to be able go to Saints and expect to win, but much better than nowhere near competitive.

And it’s not like things were better when a fair proportion of the players you list were in the team. Or you’ve had to face other teams at their strongest every week (Leigh missing Lam, Asiata, Ipape and Amone, Saints missing Walmsley, Dodd and Clark).

I get that the performance was always going to be seen through the prism of this being a new dawn, and you’d be ‘pulling together’, rightly…. if it had happened with Smith still in charge though, I doubt anybody would be offering those mitigations. Tbf, that’s why he had to go.

hes been crap full stop. But new broom so lets give him another go. As long as Grix thinks hes ready who knows he might get better.

Just played in the reserves
as an Ex NRL player playing with young lads in the reserve league you would think he would have had a storming game but his name wasnt even mentioned in the report.
That really bothers me
personally dont think he will be here much longer.
If he stays until the end of the season i would play him on the wing and use his height with crossfield kicks to the corner as we dont have any running strike accross the field

How much territorial dominance/field position have we been in this year to use anybody for crossfield kicks?
Lovely sentiments though.

We have no one in the team who can even kick with any accuracy

Conversions not a strong point either but obviously that's not a top concern right now