The big diff was the Huddersfield line speed left us almost at a standstill through each set we played thus forcing us into hasty shouts and knee jerk lateral movement.. their kicking was much better than ours
HOWEVER
I think Hame had a cracker and his best yet in black and white...
Fitz looked awesome
Manu was dangerous off the bench
Horne looked more confident as the game went on and will only get better
Obst looks a very good buy and will i am sure pay dividend.
Whiting continued to play his heart out

But this is part of the basics of the game,the same as our support play and players pushing through on the attacking players shoulders,who is responsible for this?,Isn't it the coaches job to in still these disciplines in the players on the training pitch,have we improved in these areas over the last three years?

As for yesterday,you can't knock the effort of the players,but again was out coached,did you notice Brough was kicking on 3rd & 4th tackling on most sets,this meaning our two wingers were in our defensive line,leaving Brough to kick it either side of Whiting,so it mean't we had to bring the ball back 80 metres in those conditions,against a bigger pack which invarailably mean't we were kicking on the 5th tackle in our 40 with there wingers and full back set.
Couldn't he have seen this,changed the tackle in which we kicked or told the wingers to drop back??
All we did most of the match was to take the bal lout from our 20,don't know what the territorail stats are but they must have been horrendous.

How did washbrrok go?

Bench was nice and warm at the end of the game.

With regards Richard Horne, i'm not sure how widely this is known but i found out through Martin Dunn yesterday that he had a pretty upsetting visit to his surgeon last week. Basically his off-season op has not been a success and more surgery is needed. However, the club have asked him to play through it and in typical Horney style he put his hand up to play. When judging his displays i think this needs to be taken into account.

doesn't surprise me

People are quick to criticise horne and we haven't seen the best of him for the last 3 years, however he is Hull FC through and through and has played with injuries which would see other players sat in the stands. We also look a better side with horne in and no long than we do the other way around

Him and Moa huddled together for warmth.

Frankly, I think Agar just doesn't like Sam.

We said the same last week

All spot on, but it doesn't mean he should be kept on beyond this year. Especially if he needs another operation in the off-season.

"Manu was dangerous off the bench." When was this? I thought he was distinctly average yesterday. Also, why name a sub on the bench who never gets close to coming on - absolute lunacy. You might as well just name 16 players and be done with it. The bench and how you use it is massively important nowadays and we had one player who didn't get on and one who played for 12 minutes. Name me another team that does that? Shocking.

The thing is he needs the op now but but has answered the clubs pleas to play despite knowing full well he is probably hindering his own claims for a new contract.

I think Agars comments "Take him effing off." against Leeds gives that away.

To say nothing of his long term health.

Spot on Jake. I can't help but feel that this selfless attitude may well have prevented us seeing the very best of him over the years though, and quite probably contributed to his recent run of long term injuries.