Tell you what bores me those who band around the word "scapegoat" as soon as anyone dares to criticise a Hull player.

and if it was cockayne, you would all stand up and clap him off!!!!

most of you were wishing he was in jail for most of the match, leaving a wife and child to fend for themselves (i am only joking)

as churchill says it happens at most matches, no one knows how badly someone is injured when they cheer, if after o'meeley's hit on netherton had left him injured, then would we be saying the same thing about the hull fans who were cheering!!!

i wish shaun long a speedy recovery, a lot of FC fans calling him, yet if he'd of stayed on the pitch you would have probably won

Oh dear.

Our problem being that both things don't happen that often this season.

tongue in cheek

Ah. Ok, then.

I think most fans would cheer the hit that leaves an opposition player groggy, but the protocol is to stand and applaud the player being helped from the field. What happened in this instance?

I hope and wish Longy a speedy recovery. Top bloke and a great servant to rugby. Maybe Longy will realise that his body can't take the knocks anymore and retire. If he does I hope we get him signed onto the coaching staff, if he stays as a player then I hope he can develop our up and coming 7's into something only half as good as he's been.

Why the clamour to get Long on the coaching staff? IMO he doesn't appear to have the right sort of personality for it.

Nobody cheered the incident as it wasn't clear what had happened. The East stand started cheering as Long was rolling around in agony, which rose to a crescendo as he was led from the field.

Unbelievable.

He who is withour sin......

I am. I freely admit to cheering when we put a big hit in and it leaves the player groggy. But I have never cheered in glee when an opposition player awaiting an ambulance has been helped from the field- I always stand and applaud. Don't try and defend the indefensible, Basil, it doesn't become you.

Absolute tosh. And as he walked off the field with the physio who would know in the East stand how injured he was? I was sat in the West stand and thought he had hurt his wrist.
If he had been stretchered off, then to cheer that would have been crass.

i think everybody knew it was a serious injury but cheering an injured player of the pitch isnt great is it