I think it's down to the halfbacks in the main. I thought Horne was average last night - very slow and rarely committing defenders at the defensive line. Washy isn't a half. This translates into a lack of structure (even more than normal) and players don't know what is happening. Everyone starts to lose confidence. I think it will return if we can play a settled side in the second half of the season.

Beat me to it.

I've reserved my judgement for a long time on Craig Hall. I've now concluded he is definately not good enough

Hall's biggest problem seems to be a lack of concentration at times, He dropped a couple of ball he really should have taken but other than that he did not do much wrong. I don't know why people always want to criticise someone after every game we play. If players have a bad game, big deal, it happens to the best.

Hall kicked a great goal which was crucial as the match went on and made one good break.

Get off his back!

It does, though far less frequently. Hence the reason they are considered 'the best'.

And since when has Hall been labelled as the best? He is a young centre still learning the game and as a result sometimes does good things and sometimes does bad things.

He did nothing last night to warrant a thread about his poor performance.

In fairness many people are commenting about his season performances. And incidentally he is paid to concentrate.

Then in fairness to Hall how many games has he had in his proper position? He needs to be given a run at centre for about 10 games and then judge him imo.

Left centre.

Preferably, but just a run in the centres would do. I still have my doubts about the kid but he needs to be given a shot and also needs some decent ball to work with.

He looks far more comfortable on the left rather than the right. If Yeamo is back next week i'd play him on the right and leave Hall to play on the left.

He has played loads of games at centre for Hull including a fair few this year. IMO Whiting is a better centre but has played wing to accomodate Hall. Don't get me wrong I long for him to improve and make the grade but it's the same mistakes week in week out in defence which frankly stand out like a sore thumb.

How many of his games at centre for FC have been on the left out of interest?

How many tries did he cost us last night?

Er, he hasn't. That's my point. The best players have very few poor games, Hall does not.



His defence was very shaky - again - and he bombed a decent scoring opportunity because he was looking at the defender rather than the ball he should have been catching. At the moment, his negative aspects outweigh the positive ones.