My mistake its just you said


So I assumed you were saying the biggest contribution to us losing was that Crooks (and Colbon) had an okay game and therefore you were blaming the defeat on him (them). My bad.

No worries.

Plenty of things to point fingers at from yesterday and things that need improving, which is why I said 'contributed' in relation to Crooks & Colbon.

We are desperate for a LONG-TERM solution to the halfback problem. Horne will never be that. We have Rankin and Miller who should have been given those jerseys from the very first friendly, or else why have them at the club?

Wasn't worth the risk imo. If we'd have won the the short kick off we would have started the set 30/40 yards out from your line, that's a far better position then starting from under our own sticks. Isn't that how you did Wigan the week before?

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Our lack of a decent halfback is becoming embarrasing.
A player like Sneyd would be ideal.
It seems the Hull FC number 7 shirt is cursed !

exactly what I said - we were in that position 7 days ago.

Darryl said after the game he thought it was the wrong option - there was enough time for 8 more tackles so it could've cost us.

We were lucky the restart got booted long for some weird reason.

May have been just an opportunist moment under a lot of pressure. Dribbling it into the in-goal with 80 seconds left is a no-brainer

i can't understand the knocking of yeaman, him and talonoa have been outstanding defending their side this season, most of our problems are on the other side. their attacking partnership should come on after a couple more games together

Not having a half back didn't have an impact on poor tackling on two of those try's !!! Thought their last try looked forward but could have my black n white specs on

It was.

totally agree. How can yeamo be getting slated after his performance on sunday. Was imo in our top three players. Ellis outshone everyone and our left edge of yeamo and talanoa was solid and showed glimpses of a blossoming partnership.

I thought Talanoa was awesome, Ellis was immense, Colbon fronted up well and I really liked the way Rankin marshalled the defence when he came on at full back. Thompson was very good once more; he has really surprised me. The Heremaia and Horne combination didn't work as well as against Bradford.
We played quite well and could have won. I enjoyed the game and left disappointed but not downhearted.

Doesn't sound like it was too bad. cas are in good form and we were without 2 of our frontline props meaning we went into the game with only 3 and then lost one early on which must have massively affected us. Watching those tries, the 3rd one in particular, shows more movement with the ball than we've seen in a number of years so things moving in the right direction. I'm not a fan of heremaia at half back. he needs to be playing hooker where he is massively effective. rankin or miller need to be partnering horne.

Looks like a game where we played a team in form, didn't play well, lost an interchange early and played without 2 of our main props and still only lost on kicks. Not something to get too worried about IMO. We're a mid table team and so are cas by the looks of it

Well them highlights have just confirmed what I thought on Sunday, the pass from tansey to shenton for their last try was a mile forward. We was robbed.

Your 3rd try was also dubious, foot in touch.