He's a good signing, just his off the stuff, but on the filed he is a very good player still. Think he will be good for the young lads too.

[quote="Tarquin Fuego":3f48jrvz]84% completion rate !!! Amazing D That’s how you win games !! And $$$$$ in the bank from Sports bet 41 missed tackles and 7 penalties That’s where the work has to carry on[/quote:3f48jrvz] 4 or 5 of those penalties must have been in the first 20 mins. Really impressive performance and hopefully we can back it up again with another performance next week

[quote="BP1":3tlgdvax]And breath deeply everyone I'm exhausted after watching that. Superb attitude and commitment from all concerned. For the first time, in god knows how long, we looked like a proper team working together, working hard and working for each other. [quote:3tlgdvax]Big shout out to those supporters who made the trip over and made Old Faithful ring out loud [/quote:3tlgdvax] My head is spinning, never expected a win tonight. I'll never get to sleep later after that [/quote:3tlgdvax] Absolutely. They'll have a great night!

[quote="Yippee try yay":1mg5q8tb]But but but he's old and slow.....[/quote:1mg5q8tb] He is to be fair

https://x.com/hullfcofficial/status/189 ... g1ECg&s=19 Love this from Thirkill. Belting out Old Faithful in the changing room with the players

https://x.com/hullfcofficial/status/189 ... g1ECg&s=19 Love this from Thirkill. Belting out Old Faithful in the changing room with the players

Great unexpected win, 1-17 brilliant, so much fitter and organised than last season. Standouts for me were Rapana, Bourouh, Cust and Asiata. Thought Lane was much improved on last season too, looks to have bulked up a bit...Briscoe didn't look out of place as a centre. Still bits to work on, can't be giving that many penalties away v Wigan next week. McNamara needs to improve things and quickly, can't see Guash having much patience with him. Pangai jr looked overweight and Garcia is wasted at 9.

Great to see Thrikhill enjoying the post match Old Faithful too

[quote="Faithful One":cknp1le6]4 or 5 of those penalties must have been in the first 20 mins. Really impressive performance and hopefully we can back it up again with another performance next week[/quote:cknp1le6] There were also a couple that weren't really discipline related, such as the offside that we challenged. Just a bit unlucky there. And both the Rapana knees on Makinson and the Barron push in goal were really soft. Sao had a bit of a reactive grab when he was wrong footed, but it wasn't bad one, typical forward tackling a back sort of penalty. That and Cust speaking out of turn were the disappointing ones. Apart from that I thought discipline was fine.

[quote="Steve0":2o32f728]Great unexpected win, 1-17 brilliant, so much fitter and organised than last season. Standouts for me were Rapana, Bourouh, Cust and Asiata. Thought Lane was much improved on last season too, looks to have bulked up a bit...Briscoe didn't look out of place as a centre. Still bits to work on, can't be giving that many penalties away v Wigan next week. McNamara needs to improve things and quickly, can't see Guash having much patience with him. Pangai jr looked overweight and Garcia is wasted at 9.[/quote:2o32f728] Wire away for Catalan next week too. But then again if Cas have genuinely improved tonight then there are no easy games (barring the face about Salford tomorrow)

Anyone know what the weathers like in Manchester in October? What a game

If you ask some of the players from last season how they felt tonight , I guess they’d be Amazed. They had at least one General in Sezer directing play. What a difference to last season where we looked like headless chucks. I said weeks ago we could finish 6th if Carty got it right. Not a bad start to the season. We defended well but Catalans were poor v Halifax and we will play better teams starting next week then Leigh. I’m in 7th heaven currently and jumped off the sofa a few times watching the game. Let’s see where we are after 9 games.

[quote="Tarquin Fuego":29ubgrs1] Let’s see where we are after 9 games.[/quote:29ubgrs1] Hail The Barometer. Long live The Barometer.

[quote="Cuddleclub":2h50slej]Special mention to Zak up there with MOTM for me, I know he’s had issues and I’m not excusing him for that, but he’s a competitor and that’s exactly what we need.[/quote:2h50slej] I think we should not keep raking up his past. We all have them. Great that he has a direction in the latter part of his career not getting into the international team but developing the youngsters around him . An astute acquisition long may that opinion remain valid

The lads look infinitely closer as a group than they did last year. It was probably hard for them last year to build a bond amongst themselves when they were only in training for a few hours a couple of days a week. When you see the stuff the social media team puts out (which I admit can be carefully chosen and edited) then they really do seem to enjoy being around each other.

[quote="Dave K.":e9ojaeoc]Bet his stats are very high, makes metres every carry.[/quote:e9ojaeoc] Yes decent stats for Hardaker last night 23 tackles 15 carries 126 metres Rapana, Barron and Martin well over 100 metres and Briscoe not far off on 96. Asiata 43 tackles with just one miss.

[quote="ComeOnYouUll":3dsvys6m]Yes decent stats for Hardaker last night 23 tackles 15 carries 126 metres Rapana, Barron and Martin well over 100 metres and Briscoe not far off on 96. Asiata 43 tackles with just one miss.[/quote:3dsvys6m] Martin did an unbelievable amount of work. Really restricted TPJ metres, we did a really good job on him. Potentially 3 playee out for next week though, so a little costly. Hopefully Chamberlain or Holmes back. Hooker could be an issue though.

[quote="Tarquin Fuego":2un5oqfx] They had at least one General in Sezer directing play. What a difference to last season where we looked like headless chucks. .[/quote:2un5oqfx] I’ve said it loads but even last season it was absolutely night and day difference even with just Ben Reynolds in the side who while not a world beater had the confidence and experience to take charge a little bit. No disrespect to him but he’s spent the majority of his career in the championship as his level but made big difference in the few games he played. Sezer with his NRL pedigree and experience is exactly what we need in a halfback for the short term. In his interviews he also seems genuinely honoured that the players picked him as captain. He gets the history of the club and how big a responsibility it is. Could be a wise move, let him be the leader on the field he’s that type of player, it then takes a little bit of responsibility off Asiata and allows him to play his natural game.

We played well, particularly in defence but catalans attack isn't great. Stats are interesting, we only had 5 ptb in their 20 and they had 36 in ours. If we give wigan that much ball near our line next week we won't give ourselves a chance.

Cartwright mentioned Ashworth and Bourouh went off with HIAs last night. Not sure if they passed them

Ashworth did as carty said he came back on but said there were still protocols to follow. Burough failed his. I was surprised that we didn't bring balmforth on earlier anyway tbh. Maybe the coaches think there is still be some work to do on his defence and didn't feel confident enough to bring him kn earlier when the game was more in the balance

Are we allowed to be positive or will we be shot down, just going to read through the comments then I'll see if I can be positive.

One person is playing hide and seek, showing true colours again,not one post, despite posting every day. 100% would have been here if we had lost.

[quote="Ellam":9l5thqbb]Are we allowed to be positive or will we be shot down, just going to read through the comments then I'll see if I can be positive.[/quote:9l5thqbb] You can be if it's guarded. If we get half a dozen games in and have 3 wins on the board that's the time to start being more positive. There were even some wins under tony smith believe it or not

Enjoy every moment, too many dark days recently, to be fair about from a mick taking on social media I haven't seen anyone going mad with predictions after last night's result. Still going to be a tough season, but we do seem to moving in the right direction.

Right my take, everyone stood up and put their bodies on the line, defence fantastic(all hail Lasty), team spirit the like of Hardaker and Rapana hugging Barron and Martin when they did something well was great to see it's what these young lads needed after last season(masterstroke Richie), Spine was massive Rapana quality always makes yards, Cust very good, Sezer amazing what you can do with a kicking game, Amir good at hooker loved Mint but what a difference at hooker with good ball and pace, Asiata warrior and moves our team around the pitch. Only one game but we've waited nearly 18 months for this so let's enjoy. Negatives Jed's hammy hopefully just a minor and a few weeks. Hopefully Amir pass protocols to play against Wigan. Holmes hopefully play to replace Jed and that be my only change. Final point someone's gone MIA amazing that isn't it he be gutted.