Hull really do seem to get hit by a lot of injuries, is it all just bad luck or is some of it down to poor strength and conditioning. I know youve had some different personnel in that area, but every year it seems you complain of injuries. Is there a need to look at this based on the types of injury your players are getting?

I'm sure no one at the club has thought of that, drop them a line to suggest it





Joking apart, all clubs get injuries but we're just in a really bad patch. I don't remember it being this bad since 2004

With all due respect Sa & Yeaman have been gash, they aren't and shouldn't be considered 'first choice' as they simply haven't been good enough to be described as such. Also isn't Shaul first choice FB, he's played in the FB roll more than Rankin and aside from his injury which curtailed his mid season appearances & Radford using his position to punish him for his 'outburst' he very much is our first choice FB.
We've lost one starting backrower, that's Ellis, we've got both our starting props plus our first choice bench prop in Feka (not that Radford has used him much this season!), you could argue given the performance against Wigan (lauded as one of our best this season) that barring a couple of players that was one of our better teams that we've put out.

If the scoreline is anything similar to our defeat at their place (during our winning run I might add) I'd say that the team we've put out is better than the so-called 'first choice' players.

Making excuses for losses due to injuries/playing your least experienced 1st team squad members is a non starter for me.

Anderson's thinking will be all out, if Leeds lose against Cas they have a chance of 1st or 2nd as they've got leeds in a 4 pointer last match, I don't see him pulling players out to save from injury however I don't expect there to be a big points differential if our lads can perform like they did last weekend and cut down the mistakes.

A cancer, WTF are you talking about, because I can have an objective viewpoint on how we perform you think i can't support and be a fan of the club? Whatever, no-one put you in charge of jack (thank feck) and if you think the potential of us only gaining one win from the S8s is excusable in any way then you're as dumb as the rest of the Radford loving head in the sand types.
One great performance last week and you think everything is rosy, my point is absolutely clear, Radford is safe no matter how we perform these next two games, he has an excuse that we only have X first choice players playing so even if Hudds and Catalans batter us (which might not happen) it won't effect his position. You can't even see how that directly relates to what happened to our previous more successful coach whom also had terrible injury crisis and a supposed load of crap/average players.

that sums it up pretty well for me, and the reason players like McGillvary dont get noticed, until now that is.we are a team that tend to go under the radar and usually only get talked about at this stage of the season because we are expected to "choke" again, but i am more than happy with that.
we have good players but not exceptional players*, players like Brough,Crabtree, Ferres etc will always be the standout names but we have players like Murphy,Lawrence,Ta'ai,Wardle,Ellis who are all vital parts of our team but rarely get mentioned, mainly because of their consistency.

*as in how the media get in fits of hysterics over them.

if they play with as much enthusiasm and belief as they did last friday i doubt it will be anything near a canter.

short memory Jake
Peter Gentle had to contend with 12 or 14 injuries at one stage

Did he? I can't remember it being that bad but I do remember radford coming out of retirement so it was obviously not good

I agree about yeaman and sa but the fact is if they were fit they'd be playing hence they are our first choice centres. Plus their squad numbers kind of give it away or are you suggesting rankin and logan are now our best options?

As for shaul, what are you talking about? He's our first choice full back and he's injured - gone for the season according to the wail



Unless the 13 isn;t now in the back row I think you'll find we've lost 2 of the starting 3, plus 2 of our back up options in whiting and thompson



feka really isn't up to it IMO. He's not got the impact he had nor the engine to do big minutes plus he gets spotted in defence. green and bowden have both been picked ahead of him this season so I stand by my view that feka is 5th choice



Are you really suggesting that a team isn't weakened when it loses it's best players? Do you really think a weakened side should be as good as a full strength one? You should get in touch with pearson and tell him he's wasting a million quid or so a year in that case.

If we were playing you at your place we'd be OK but at the KC we're absolute gash

It was good against KR

Just been told only 15 players trained yesterday, with Shaul and Lineham out, really going to struggle to get a team out, are any players due back, Yeaman, Sa, Tomo, Whiting or Micheals.