Another day, another dollar, another fifty point defeat for Hull Fc.

Disappointed (to put it mildly!!!) I was hoping to see at least SOME reaction to last Saturday, a little bit of fight, a smidgeon of pride maybe, but no, just a rerun of seven days ago.

Virtually everyone currently employed by the club (from Pearson downwards) has played their part in the demise of a once great and proud club. We are now nothing more than an empty shell of what we once stood for.

We might as well sack the entire coaching staff and simply let the players take it in turns to pick a 17 each week. It wouldn't be any worse than this ongoing shambles that we are enduring and least we, the fans, would know exactly who to direct our ire and fury towards.

I said earlier this week that we are at our lowest ebb for 50 years, but at least the team of the early-mid seventies had some fight and local pride in themselves, the club was just skint at that time unfortunately.
Given where we were just seven years ago, this is now arguably the lowest point we have ever been at. Truly depressing times for all of us, with no answers to the malaise and not even a chink of light in what has become a very dark and long tunnel.

Where's that hemlock and cyanide again!!!!!

Thank God I cannot go to watch that shower and when I can it’ll be another season consigned to the bin. Smith has got to be on thin ice , the players he signed just aren’t cutting it, every casual observer questioned the Okunbor signing, as a back rower he is the epitome of half d and just isn’t good enough. We badly needed a scrum half and had plenty of time to get one , but instead we signed an international hooker , to play in a position he can’t , continue to flog the clubs oldest player and have no clue in attack. We have conceded over 100 points in two games and replied with just two scores . I’d get it if Pearson admitted we are below cap and because there is no relegation aren’t bothered by that worry, so have decided to sign targets that nobody else wanted until we are again solvent , then we could accept defeats, but not in the manner of the Leigh & Huddersfield games . We will be very lucky to sell 6000 passes next year ; I have never sensed a more disenfranchised group of diehard fellow supporters than I do now. I got a pass for this season as you do, don’t you , knowing that I’d miss upto 16 weeks, but in a time where the cost of living is a major concern for all of us, won’t be doing that next year , I just can’t take the club’s contempt for the fans any longer . I’ve seen some very low ebbs in supporting this club, since my first game in 1975 or 1976 but , even with no money and patched up teams , the pride of the players became the same pride of supporters- now the history of our club is being blackened by a team with no idea or discipline and a coach who cannot admit he is wrong. Something has to give - even when we got shellacked during Radders’ tenure , there was usually a response but under Hodgson and latterly Smith we have a team that wouldn’t worry the elite of The Championship. Sacking coaches isn’t the best formula for success but I don’t see what else Pearson can do. This club needs to engage with supporters or it’ll be doomed , and their current stance is the opposite of that, almost feeling like contempt for the people who keep them viable . Who could we get though as replacement? No real candidates scream out and who’d take the job anyway? Worrying times as the club is in free fall and may even be finished due to the parlours financial state it is in. Despair for the loyal thousands , utter despair.

As the saying goes "the fish rots from the head"

Really don’t think dropping Lane and putting Balmforth in the 17 will make any difference.
However much posters criticise smith.
The players have consistently let themselves and the club down.
There’s enough local hull boys in the team so I would expect them to show some guts and not lay down again next week.

It won'y be just him who doesn't see the end of the season. The rumblings on here suggest support for the whole rotten setup is dwindling and unless there's a mega change in the situation they'll be playing in front of vastly reduced crowds come Septembert

Are they though or is that Smith just isn’t up to the job? Quite honestly there is absolutely nothing to suggest he nor whenever implementing anything since they arrived and I dare say we’d see little difference if they were released and we ran a team that didn’t train and just turned on game day.

Why would an experienced coach pick a player that is in the very last throw of his career and struggling with a hamstring issue for the past couple of weeks? Not only that but try and flog him for 80 mins?

I think Smirh has been found out and is past it & the game has past him by now. On top of them at we have an owner that has clearly lost interest and is now doing what Hetherington did in minimum outlay and maximum extraction of money for personal gain.

We will get absolutely mullered on Friday and there is no life in the club at all, it is rotten to the core.

*May

Exactly who in their right mind would re new for next season other than blind loyalty? I can’t see many doing that at all.

According to Smith everyone he comes across thinks he is doing a good job, you are all with him and there is no issue. I don’t know a sole or read anywhere anyone who thinks this. Is he delusional?

Simply yes

We all know, fairly obviously, that we don't have the greatest of teams right now, but even with everything that has happened so far this year this squad (as low-quality as it is) surely isn't as bad as these past two weeks seem to indicate?

No black & white was ever expecting this squad to be challenging for honours this year, but tonight we find ourselves somewhere below our lowest hopes for the season. We've suffered consecutive fifty point defeats to two sides who, with all respect, are themselves unlikely to be top dogs come September. It's not as if we've just been thrashed by Wigan and Saints (we still have those joys to come).

I tried to stay positive for as long as possible, hoping that this was all part of some rebuild which would at least bear some fruit, but Smith has to go. Whatever he is doing (or isn't doing), whether it's because the players simply aren't listening (or have gone on strike effectively) or whether it's because he has just lost the plot completely, there has to be a change somewhere in the set-up and quick. I know this is a bottom four squad, but as the very least they should be competitive with an ability to carry out the basics to at least a level of competency. The fact they can't has to be laid at Smith's door.

This is now beyond merely a bad run of results, we are in an existential crisis in which the continued future of the club as a viable force within the game is now at stake. The next few months could, potentially, decide whether or not Hull Fc remain as a functioning RL club, it has now become, in my eyes, that serious.

I'm with you Chris, if need be sack the entire coaching staff and the players can take it in turn every Thursday afternoon to pick that week's 18 man squad. It couldn't produce a bigger shambles than what we are witnessing right now.
This forum shows that a significant section of the club's hard-core supporter base are on the verge of walking away from a club that, in some cases, they have followed for decades.

The time for action, something, anything, is right now or the consequences could be absolutely catastrophic.

Well maybe but lets be honest there are a couple of dozen regular posters on here so that's a tiny percentage of the fan base. It may or not be representative.

While that may be true, I go in a pub before and after with a good number of regular fans and the general consensus is this will be their last season, with FC as bad they are and the rules as they are going to be next year too. Adam has to be really careful as if this form continues it will certainly hit pass sales, people have had enough.

Not me. I’ll never quit on the club. I’ve supported them for 49 years, I live in Rugby and am a season ticket holder. It’s a 5 hour round trip for home games for me and I’ll probably do half the away games too.

I know we’ll probably get thrashed on Friday, but I’ll be their v Huddersfield and still be there in the 80th minute.

It pains me how poor we are at the moment, but I love the club, our fans and the day out.

I’ll give you Barometer - you rassclaat

We don’t need a 9 game barometer this season

I said it in this thread - it’s going to get much worse and it won’t
Get better !! Sometimes we have Hope - this time we don’t

Smith will be gone after Good Friday - I’ll stake my
9 games measurement on that

IF not then it’s so very clear that Adam has also
Given in and has no cash to pay Tony off

Tony won’t resign
Adam hasn’t got the cash to pay his contract up

So we are going to be like Cas Tigers all season

At least we can now see every game on Sky - that’s a real bonus