Aa far as I'm aware, the rule is that if a defender catches the ball on the full with his foot over the line it's the defending side's ball, but you can no longer put your foot over the line and knock a bouncing ball dead (and expect to retain possession).

I thought he caught it in play, then stepped back and took it out of play...but I didn't have the best view.

the ball has stopped moving, if the ball is moving, either in the air or ground than you can use the line to mark it dead and get the tap.

as it was no longer moving (in the officials opinion) he made it dead in goal when he picked it up with his foot over the line, which made it a drop out

8th lost 4 games in a row. Lose to catalan next week gentle will be out of a job. Adam will not accept continued medocrity his words not mine. There is always next year.

Oh dear.

Much better performance today. Disappointed with the result, thought we deserved more. Had an overall better attitude in defence and attack, despite some silly mistakes. Rub of the green did not go our today, but definitely a step in the right direction.

He'll give Gentle to the end of the season, at least. The only way I can see his position being threatened before then is if we lose the next three.

Better attitude in attack, but some of our execution was still laughably poor. The defensive effort was quite pleasing. If only we could defend kicks.

If Pearson does get the sack, which I don't think he should do. Who is he going to replace him with? Another Aussie assistant? We've arguably the best Aussie assistant there is. Unless we can tempt Tony Smith with a different challenge then I can't see who'll he'll bring in.

Personally I don't think this slump is all down to PG whatsoever. We have too many players who are clueless in attack or don't want to be at this club anymore.

Execution was poor on a few occasions, was it our 8th half back pairing of the season? Overall attitude was a lot better, we matched the team 2nd in the league for most of the game, which is a million miles away from last two games.

Not happy with the loss, but happier with the attitude. Lynch, Galea, Miller, Ellis, Whiting, Heremaia and Ogre had good games. And, despite not defending the high kick, Briscoe had a better run out.

I don't think he's as safe as that, I think he has to win next weekend or his days are numbered, the fans will turn on him, crowds will continue to fall and Pearson will act before next seasons passes go on sale.

Daniel Anderson, Brian McClennan are both winners who haven't got jobs. Hell I'd even give Justin Morgan a go, as least he shows some passion!

Any news if Horney or DJ will be fit for next week?

Horney should play. Not DJ though.

Agree with all that. Need some stability n put a settled side out for a number of weeks. Briscoe looked miles better. Looked dangerous n carried it hard, took some real pulling down. Like Johnston, tremendous tackler but little small although still makes metres so did agree with green coming in. Why so little game time?

Hornes injury has not healed as they'd hoped. Felt ok till started running on it. Getting injections in it tomorrow, see how it goes from there. Probably unlikely at this time

Well on the positive side, I think we were very unlucky to lose. A try in the first half with an obvious knock in in the build up and then we lose to a try that came after we'd twice worked hard to close down DGs, minutes earlier when our DG hit the post we scored and had it ruled out by a touch judge who'd happily spent the rest of the afternoon enjoying the sun.

But on the negative side - how many times does a Hull player find the ball in his hands when he's not expecting it? When we have six tackles in the final third it seems to happen in at least three of them - either catching the ball standing still, or knocking it on, but either way getting the ball thrown at them when it wasn't meant for them. Couple of times Miller was setting things up as first receiver only to find he had nobody at dummy half and having to rush in and do that himself - that shouldn't be happening with two hookers on the field.

Thought Lynch played better today, but his attempt to close down Brough for the kick wide try was the epitome of going through the motions. Briscoe's attempt to field the kick was equally pathetic.

And had we played like that against Castleford and Wakefield we'd have won both games. Play well against Warrington, Hudds, Leeds and Wigan, and then decline massively against everybody else. That's attitude and mentality plain and simple.

LOSE TO CATALAN AND ITS ASTA LA VISTA GENTLE!!

Daniel Anderson is in charge of the refs down under, Justin Morgan works for Anderson. Brian McLennan I don't know about.

Who's to say they'd want to come to an underachieving team like ourselves?

depends if they are hungry to coach again, and while we are an underachieving team, if a coach did put us back in the big time it would be a big boost to their CV and could lead to other big jobs such as in the NRL.

Can't fault the effort today but simply not good enough in attack.

Had enough chances to win this game but bloody clueless in attack..we had repeat sets in both halfs and still cocked it up.Players yet again being stupid,Arundel going down touchline and going in touch,even Stevie Wonder would have seen that coming,Briscoe getting done on a high kick AGAIN and did anyone else notice at the end of the 1st half..Miller had to jump into acting half because both hookers nowhere to be seen and Houghtons passing was bloody abysmal..he is superleagues biggest myth.

Was just curious how the ball can stop moving whilst in the air??

Arundel an easy target there. Was right in that circumstance to go for it and was a little unlucky I thought. Lineham found touch once n got away witha another, very lucky pen but dumb play. Both players young though. Was a bit away but wingers getting done on a high ball isn't just a hull thing or a Briscoe thing. MASSIVELY over blown. Every team n winger is getting this done to them weekly nearly. Massive part of the game now. Even hall got done on Friday (that said although miles away, Briscoe looks to have made a hash of it today)
I'm not as aggressive in my criticism of Danny h but do largely agree. For all other aspects of play he'd be in the England squad. Passing is why he isn't.

Also Briscoe did not need to even take the ball he could of let McGillvary catch it then tackle him as he was not near the line and a few people behind me said the same