Do you always sit at your keyboard, with a plastic tiara on your head?

It's always easy to blame the coach

See seb and gary are having a field day on here, two of the worst trolls around, get a life lads

Agree with a few of the posters who said we didnt lack effort. We just played dumb rugby. Suppose not suprising with 2 forwards playing in the halfs. What we did lack in direction we also lacked in leadership - there wasnt any! The only person berating their teamates was radders when we were stood under the sticks! Think we miss captain Lynch more than many realise. Some simple basics are seriously letting us down. Defensive intensity and line speed only come in rare patches. PTB far too slow and passing is pedestrian. No backing up and taking the ball standing still is commonplace. Come on Mr G. get it sorted, its basic stuff that can be addressed fairly quickly surely!

His all was good enough, in fact was laughable when we were attack their line for around 6-7 sets and he continuously kept passing to the edge which obviously wasn't working. I rate Houghton, his work ethic is outstanding and think he will go far in the game, but his vision when were attacking at times today was poor.

Lets not get all knee jerky.....


.....wait until agars troops dismantle us on Monday then were good to go!

Ellis is the captain, houghton is vice captain, with ellis out, houghton should step up but he doesnt, he doesnt communicate well imo

why gentle took the captaincy off lynch when he had done nothing wrong is a complete mystery!

Not that mysterious. It will have been a commercial decision.

Ellis yes but Houghton ? .

Take a look at the poor guys interview on sky, itll change your opinion. We have been stupidly unlucky with injuries.... again (injuries in vital positions)

If Ellis hadn't picked up an injury it wouldn't be an issue. Stripping him of it now would be awkward to say the least.

Absolutely. The only forward who got close to finding his front regularly was O'Meley, but then the rest of his game was absolute sh*te. Bowden about our best prop today for me, and Galea probably our best forward. I wouldn't actually Galea was much, if any better than he has been, either. Said more about the rest of them. Our PTB speed is pathetic.

Seen a couple of mention half exonerating Whiting in this thread, too. (This is not specifically aimed at you, just saving the bother of a seperate post). Don't agree with them. Might have got his hands on the ball a bit more than others, but his execution poor pretty much all game. Only Houghton & Horne produced more good than bad today IMO.

It looks that way because it is that way. At one point in the first half I counted. 2 entire sets for Rovers had them land on their fronts every tackle. We had 2 in the same amount. In one set, all 6 tackles had the Hull player on his back. We are monumentally crap at this no matter how you try and dress it up.

Westerman was truly awful today. One of about half a dozen who probably had their worst games of the season.

So, assuming Wakefield retain their lead, we are 2 fom 9 and 11th, with Wakefield and Widnes above us and both of them having a game in hand. IMO Pearson will act if we lose on Monday.