The problem with friendly's is that we as fans have different needs and expectations from then than the club do. Perhaps it isn't in the clubs best interest to show their hand too much before the real stuff starts. Perhaps if we chilled out and recognised them as the glorified training sessions they are then there will be less over emotional reaction to them. After all in Australia they have had full pre season competitions with rewards on offer yet the teams that do well in that don't necessarily go well in the season proper and vice versa. As for Hull's games I'm mystified by some of the teams selected with regards to consideration of the strength of the opposition but there may well be sound reasoning behind it. The only pre season game I do object to, and the only one I refused to go to (again) is the one against the dobbins. Other than as a money grubbing exercise I can't see any benefit at all to it but plenty of negatives. If you go all out to win then opportunities to test some players and combinations are lost. If it is treated as a trial and heaven forbid you lose on the scoreboard (even if it does provide useful information to the coaching staff) then there is a bad vibe around which puts some in a negative mood before the season has even started. For this and the other games Hull haven't helped themselves much with their promotion and build up to them, alternately hyping them up and then being secretive about the weakened teams that they knew were being put out. This more than anything has contributed to the understandable "pointless" tag for them. In the end perhaps we should just be thankful that serious injuries appear to have been avoided.

I don't know what the best formula for next year is though, other than the dobbins game needs binning.

Not going to happen, the club announced this season's Clive Sullivan Trophy game as a annual event going forward.

Thread drifting again Mrs Barista and what's the saying when one needs to resort to swearing?
Negativity, of course is subjective. Many would call 96% of your own posts ( it's easy to pluck figures out the air) are happy, clappy optimistic one's, nothing wrong with that, you are after all preaching to the converted so to speak but maybe go easy on those fellow hull fans who views are more negative than your own so they are accused of being Rovers fans because they don't fit in with your own agenda.
I think answering Rob Crossland's call should fall upon fans using t'other board to be honest, be them HKR supporters or lurkers

Anyway back on thread, I'm sure AP will now ensure LR receives more specific advice on how many friendlies to play pre 2016.

I don't have 'an argument for Radford's actions'. I'm not party to what goes on inside the club - who is fit and who isn't, or what it is we're trying to achieve in the friendlies. I'm no fan whatsoever of friendlies and Pearson's comments about having only one gets my vote, albeit I won't attend a derby friendly any time.

Your constant criticism about Radford is painfully boring. If we're struggling after 10 'real' games I'd hope Radford is shown the door. If we're doing well I'd hope you'd be on here congratulating the coach and the team.

How do you know Radford keeps making the same mistakes as last year, when we haven't played even played a competitive game yet. Let's judge him when we have played a couple games at least.

I'll reply on next years thread

Just a quick question. Why do you feel the need to insult people who have a different opinion to you?

He's mired himself that deep with his anti-Radford stance that he's now got no other alternative.
He does have to occasionally drop in the, 'I'd be really be happy to be proved wrong' just to cover his own poisonous @rse.

Its all this board is about

IF you had bothered to read the thread, the poster I referred to called me intellectually deficient, I was just repeating back exactly what they did..Obviously the mods weren't interested in telling the poster not to use insulting comments so I threw it back in exactly the same fashion using the same words..HTH

And if you bother to check I wasn't the one throwing the mud first, I repeated exactly what I was called...