Good post Easty for the most part.
I must say I was impressed by your performance on Saturday. Like most I thought we started as favourites and once again we just could not deliver at Magic. I don’t think we turned up as the team who have played so well recently, but that is also in large part down to the immense effort of the Red and Whites.

I feel we will come back from this and get back into gear. However it bamboozles me exactly what happens to your lot in the week before Magic. You really do come out a completely different team, (apart from last year) and on Saturday I thought you looked as intense as any team we’ve played this year.

Overall you deserved to win the game.

Your attack looked speedy and dangerous, and I thought we did well to keep you out. But it was your defence that surprised me. All season you’ve been moaning about it and yet it shows you can defend as well as any top side when the team is in the zone.

How do you get that consistency into your game ??? If you could deliver performances like that each week it would guarantee fringes of top 4 never mind scrambling about in 9th 10th spot.

I think Sandercock can coach. He’s just taking his time getting there in my opinion, and that could be his downfall sadly. He’s done wonders for your attack and if he could do the same for your defence as he clearly did on Saturday then you may well already have your man. He just may look back and wish he sorted both out together, Just could be difficult now coaching how to keep the other ball in the air, without dropping the first one.

But if he can sort out the defence to Saturdays levels maintain Saturdays intensity levels and build consistency then you will be right back up there.

Considering you lost George early on and then Lovegrove who was having a really good game it was an even more impressive effort than the scoreline suggests. And maybe that’s what lost you it on Saturday because we smash and grabbed in the last 7 minutes. Don’t get me wrong, I was truly elated at our win, at the end I went berserk and was truly amazed that sport can bring such low and high emotions. But I’m one who wants both sides of the City to be a force. I just want us to be a bigger force.
Bottle up what that team of yours had on Saturday and you wont be far off. And if we can stay one step in front we’ll be a champion team which is where I want us to be and where I think were going.
A brilliant nerve jangling game of RL and a great effort by your side, one for you to be proud of.

The least said about the VR the better. You win and lose on such decisions but that one was as bad as I’ve ever seen.
Ganson made the mother of cock ups and he should lose his job for it. I wont wait for it. Neither will I wait for for RedHall to sort out so many other very poor decisions that are seriously effecting our great game.

Well done anyway, very unlucky on the day. It was just our turn to get away with it this year and smoke the cigar.

And Rovers might have only needed a drop goal if the scores had remained 16-all, so lets not go down that path.

Any RFL intervention would set the wrong type of precedent so lets move on. The mistake lies with the officials not with FC.

Yes it was a vastly improved 'effort' by Rovers but now they have to reproduce it against the Bulls. That will be the acid test although the injury list is looking even more ominous with Lovegrove and George very doubtful.

WELL done sir a decent hull fan not to many come on this board well said

It was more in response to some of your fans saying Ganson cost them the "points" (indicating they thought they'd go on to win). That path has already been trodden, I was just letting them see the alternative path.

Agree with the rest though.

thought the tackling by rovers in the last 2 derbies was top notch, but where is the effort in some matches , no consistency is a worry

the post from uppo58 was easily the best one I have seen, now lets all agree ganson cost us the game last year,and cost you the game on Saturday.the man should not be in any position whatsoever in the game, lets move on!!

Not really your problem is it but thanks for the concern

Can't believe it's over 48 hours since the event, and still hardly anyone is asking how Rovers managed to blow a ten point lead with eight minutes to go.

Indeed.

Well done Sir. A Very good read and nothing I can disagree with.

we didn't really did we we was robbed as everybodys excepted the same last year when nobody mentioned how you blew a 16pt lead with 14 mins left you just talk about Dobsons flat pass

we were down to 15 fit players for the last 20mins Yeamans try was disputable and a blatant knock on in the lead up to the try we were going to crack in the end and concede at least one try and you still haven't explained how you blew a 16 pt lead last year with 14mins left though