So you have answered the reasons why your not doing so well then, a decsion to go with youth 5 or 6 you said.

Maybe Sandycock is doing the best he can with what he has, Hudge said they will not spend upto the maximum salary cap and it's recognised that the p[layers are young and going to make mistakes but who else can you put in instead. Your not going out to buy in the marklet.

Going back to our better seasons in 2008 / 2009 / 2010 I noticed how much our defence used to drop off when Mick Vella was spelled. It was really noticable to the point I expected us not to be able to defend our line with him off the pitch. It was never noticeable what he actually did but it certainly seemed to work. Unfortunately we haven;t replaced that element of the team, whether its experience, knowledge or organisation it may be a fact that one / two players could make all the difference.

There is a lot of inexperience in our backs at the moment, our defence in the last 20m is very dodgy, no-one seems able to direct it.

After the Widnes game i told a mate of mine who couldn't attend, that even though we had a 34-0 half time lead, we only managed to win the game because Widnes bombed so many chances and where really pap, and that a half decent side would of seen us off....Sunday proved how wrong i was.
After what we've seen so far, can Sandercock, or anyone else for that matter, make a gold purse out of a pigs ear?
Only time will tell.
I'll be there on Sunday but i don't expect a very good day.

The backs aren't the route of the problem though, it's the forwards. Teams find it way too easy to get a roll on around the ruck. I've noticed the last couple of games our drop off has coincided with Carlile & Horne both being in the middle. Didn't matter vs Widnes & shouldn't have mattered vs Salford but momentum is difficult to halt.

Maybe we could trade Sandercock & Gentle for a couple of days a week. Gentle could teach us how to tackle & Sandercock can teach Hull how to attack. We should both improve.

It is mitigation, but as I said earlier in the thread (or maybe in another one), we still shouldn't be [ithis[/i weak, [ithis[/i regularly. Lower end of mid-table, fine - but we're not that far under the cap by all accounts. It is a thinner squad than previous years and he's had a worse time with injuries than Morgan did, but even so.

I think we need to get over the slightly back to front 'if you're young enough, you're good enough' thing and let him focus on winning, or if it doesn't happen then the same goes for whoever succeeds him.

At this stage it looks like he hasn't signed enough players who can get poop done. We seem to have talented but flakey all over the park. Upscaling what he did with Uate to half a squad - ambitious.

In some ways I think he'd leave a decent enough legacy, if it comes to that. Easier act to follow than Morgan, a good number of promising players, good in attack, a more professional feel to things - a couple of strong characters added to the team and lot of work on defence and we could well be... average.

Wonder what revelations are going to be in the hull daily mail about the club Tom

Briscoe? Larvin did say he'd be making him an offer.

@HDMAlCoggan: If you're a Hull KR fan, you won't want to miss tomorrow's HDM for exclusive revelations about your club

Must be good news, otherwise you [uwould[/u want to miss it.

Ha ha good one

god knows what it is prob a new addition to the team a new ball boy or sumet

Cheers I'm rubbish at all this attaching stuff

SirStan will know, he's Charlie Mullan's man on the inside.

What stan is inside mullan ew grose

Don't like the word "revelations"..... Google it in the news search and the only thing that comes up is negative stories! Ben Barba

(allegedly of course) Pistorius

John Terry

Doesn't sound good to me

revelation [ˌrɛvəˈleɪʃən
n
1. the act or process of disclosing something previously secret or obscure, esp something true
2. a fact disclosed or revealed, esp in a dramatic or surprising way.

Can't wait...

We are signing 6 future England internationals and 2 of the best Halfbacks in the league.

All will be revealed tomorrow.



RRTR

Alison Coggan is the deputy news editor. Sounds interesting.

New deal for Sandercock?

Karl Turner's just been on Radio Humberside, concerned by some major issues at Craven Park.

Seats the wrong colour in the new stand. Not only that, design means some will get wet. Farcical, said Gwilym.

Dr Allam will bail us out. He's our friend
Consider it a gift to the people of Hull.

Does he manufacture red seats?

Warrington to send 19's on sunday.

Jeez, it`s never dull at Rovers at the minute. Allways something going wrong!



Sack the Architect i say!!

Apparently rovers are selling one of they're top players to Salford to stop us going into administration rumours do my head in

Well after seeing them all on sunday night he's an idiot!