Our attacking structure must really improve if we are to make the top 8 and have a good cup run.

I agree our attack is hopeless. But at this stage it's too much to say there's no chance.

If we had played Wakefield today as planned and got the result we would have been 8th at worst (possibly 7th had Rovers lost to Salford). That is with everyone playing each other once.

Yes we've played badly, but there are plenty of average teams in this league. If we can grind out some results when we need them there's no reason we can't scrape in.

They also made a lot of ground with ball in hand the same as Widnes did last week and that's a worry.
Our attack though is embarrassing.
No doubt we will have that flyer Yeaman back in the centre next week.

How forlorn and desperate is this last - accurate - sentence. Could anyone believe this would be a realistic post now given where we were 3 years ago? We're supposed to have been through all this after Agar.

Ellis another couple of weeks yet according to himself on Hull fc live

I just can't believe that Radders didn't rest Pryce, Houghton and Minichiello for starters. They've all played big minutes and after a gruelling Easter they could have done with a rest.
Clearly shows that Radders was worried of a bad result if we weren't near full strength. Perfect time to play some kids.

Think paea has been our outstanding player this season,far and away our best forward in the absence of ellis,thompson was pretty good as well but my goodness we are so boring.Still a win is a win and another lower league team please tomorrow night. COYH

if we had rested pryce we could easily have lost! even moving sa to 6 didnt help!

rankin was too predictable, high kick to the winger everytime who made metres on each return

I wasn't at the game but I can't see that Pryce would have made much difference regardless of how well he played. Our only tactic is to batter the opposition into submission. We may aswell have played another prop at 6.

pryce, along with paea, was mainly the reason we were out of sight first half

second half was dire, no direction at all!

Chuck in Thompson and I fully agree. Whatever the rights and wrongs of it, given it looked rocky at 12-22 we may well have been out in this round had key players been rested IMO.

It seemed that Pryce was our main attacking threat and his exit from the pitch coincided with our finding it even more difficult than normal to score points.

The aim today was avoid the banana skin and get into the next round,they did that at a canter, always were in control and fans still moan,if it had been 80-0 the radford out brigade would still find something wrong ,Castleford got spanked by Widnes today a team who we also beat and were always in control and they have the best coach in SL ...so many tell us. Along with Warry,Giants,Widnes and Catalans they have lost the same amount of games we have. Take away the top three and the rest are all in the mix.

We are indeed in the mix, I have argued our case already in this thread. If we managed to get our attack firing then we could even push towards the top 4, never mind the 8, the league is that close.

The fact is that we are terrible with ball in hand, and until we sort that out we aren't going to be able to move forward. Unfortunately we seem incapable of improving. We beat a hugely inexperienced Saints team, ground it out against Widnes thanks to two interceptions, and were hugely uninspiring today by all accounts. We might have won three on the spin, but I've seen absolutely nothing to suggest we are improving. Radford simply isn't the man for the job.