Even taking conditions into account once it started raining the ball seemed to be dropped by both teams more than I'd have expected; wonder whether this new ball question might be raised again.

There is a difference between the rhino ball & the steeden, steeden have a copyright on the ball they've produced & rhino can't replicate it, clubs are complaining about it, but nothing the RFL can do as rhino are official match ball.

Sounds like sub standard Rhinos all around this season....

Can't wait, beef stroganoff at Wembley then traditional cornish steak and blue cheese at Madchester

hammer leeds hopefully

I'm gonna guess the 10,970 crowd today was a SL record at Cas between the 2 teams. Certainly don't recall a bigger crowd then that. Superb following from hull FC. I'd imagine if we hadn't lost 5 in a row at home it would have been an 11700 sell out.

Loved the song from the cods today ,what's it like to have a crowd.bit like at your place then when only 10,237 came for the cas game.

Horrible to watch that game. The turning point was the frankly worrying decision to go for goal 50 yards out. They seemed to sense something when they dropped out and we made mistake after mistake. Danny's kick out on the full, Mahe's one handed carry resulting in a dropped ball on our 10, Michael's brain-fart attempted pass to the wing, Sneyd chucking it to the touch-judge.

All will make terrible viewing tomorrow morning for the team and I really hope they learn something because Cas' poor handling in that last 10 mins gave us an ill-deserved win.

I know it was scrappy and a win, but if we want to get to a semi-final, that isn't good enough. Hopefully Gaz, Mini and Manu will shore us up next weekend.

Completely agree. I couldn't believe we were chancing an unlikely 2 points against another set on cas' line. It was like we were mentally looking for the hooter to go with over 1/3 of the game to go. We then did everything we haven't been doing in recent weeks and did our best to throw the game away.

I know we were missing some important players but cas were playing with no half backs and we had 3 and still scored less than they did.

I'm hoping it was an off day because we had our mind on the cup game and everything is going into that. It's one of the downsides of resting players when everyone switches off because they don;t see the game as being that important.

We've won so many games this year by a score or less and we need to up our game big style for the rest of teh season or we won't make any impact in the cup or play offs

Tactics Jakester.
Keep scraping out victories ready to hit the peaks for the business end of season.
It's a plan, I tell thee lad.

Soooo...

We were lucky because of Cas's poor handling but they weren't lucky because of our mistakes? How does that work?

We won because we were marginally better [ioverall[/i than they were over the whole game. I'm not happy about that performance and neither are Radford and the players, but calling it "ill-deserved" is a bit strong IMO.