Why would you want to put Heremaia in the halves?

his try today just looked like what we'd want a 6 to do, seeing as Horne tried to do the same thing in the first half and got nowhere

He has got 'experience' in the halves but he became a international after his move to hooker.

doesn't mean he wouldn't add a creative edge, like I said, wouldn't mind trying him out there

At 18-10 i thought hull were beaten and had we remained calm and played our sets we would have finished you off, however we proceded to throw silly passes and offloads which then gave you confidence, heremaia's try although a great dummy was lax defending and then even worse was that we tried another stupid offload in our own half to give yeaman a walk in try, the final try again was poor defending by a team now lacking confidence.i thought we bossed the 2nd half for most of it and you were always playing catch up

Well it's all about opinions.

I just think that Houghton was struggling to play the 80 and when he's back we finally get chance chance to have good rotation from hooker.

I would expect both players to 'overlap' as both can do more than 40 mins so Heremaia may get pushed out in the halves for 20 mins a game.

Agree with this. Keep players in their specialities. Heremaia is former international hooker, let's keep him there.

Gentle alluded to playing heremaia in the halfs in his post match interview

What was actually said, can't say I remember it?

He just said that he can also play 7. Didn't talk about it for too long.




Personally I would like him to stay at hooker. Rotating him and Houghton in the game could be devastating.

I wonder if Gentle mentioned it just to suggest him as our back up option in the halves?

For next season we have Ellis going, Horne supposedly moving to fullback, and Nicklas OOC. I'll be surprised if we manage to bring in more than 1 half, especially so 2 reasonably experienced ones. I think Heremaia could be our cover for injuries in the halves next year.

A 6 and a back up half should be priority, somebody to do Ellis' job.

Unless they fancy Newton or Jackson to possibly be worth a try at hooker next year?

I thought we were poor and didnt deserve the win but yesterday was a case of result being more important than the performance. I was very impressed with Heremaia and Horne was also good at fullback. Moa had a superb game and Watts had an encouraging debut. Crooks defence was very good but still not convincing in attack and Briscoe played very well and was constantly involved.

Got to start following Watts with the ball as he looks capable of an offload every time.

I thought Child contrived to ruin the game, from the very early minutes you could see it was going to be an odd one, when Brough just tapped the ball into touch for a penalty when they were almost on their own line... Tickle had his worst game in a Hull shirt so far, and the only scrum we rushed to form was immediately before half time, and led to them scoring. Whiting had a great game, as did Moa, Lynch needs to run his weight and show more agression than he did yesterday, Yeaman and Brisco both hed very solid games, Seymour did OK and his kicking was good, Heremia had a good game as well, Horne did his job well and took some difficult high balls. My biggest concern from yesterday was Crookes, he either isn't fast enough or lacks confidence, more game time will show which it is. Watts looked useful but needs to get fitter, Turner was as rubbish as ever. Westerman also looks to be unfit and plodding, which is such a shame as he has the talent.

Hudds were back to their old spoiling selves, laying on etc. if we'd lost yesterday the better side would have lost.