Hope you're right. A fantastic 20 minutes to round off the season backing up a decent show at Huddersfield and a derby nilling. Can only be better next year with 2 trade-ups at half back and Minichiello replacing Tuson, right?

Yes. We missed the beginning, but he was with Gwilym Lloyd for the build up, and Humberside's team announcement was actually late because of it. Reckon it was around 7-7.15 time.

Cheers, I wasn't listening. Any RL pre match is invariably punctuated with a recorded interview with Josh Hodgson so missed it.

Pearson came out with a belter. When talking about the possibility of 2 refs next year, he said it'll suit Leeds so there's a good chance it will happen.

Pearson is easily the best thing that's happened to Hull FC for decades. More than ever I hope we're successful for him as much as anything else.

Obsessed with the sport, wants to make FC the best team in SL and won't give up until he's achieved it.

In for the Long Haul then.

His comments on crooks and lancaster were encouraging. Hope we can get them both tied down to the club longer term

And hopefully it puts pay to some of the posts on here which are clearly unfounded rubbish.

He even acknowledged the dobbins fans and generally bigged up sport in hull . Both rugby teams , hull city and the boxers

Good programme notes as well.

He touched on next season's 150th celebrations saying he is particularly excited about a couple of events in the pipeline. No details but I wonder if we might see Hull v New Zealand at the end of next season given that they will be over here for a test series.

That'd be amazing. The last one at the Boulevard was great fun.