Much as I was relieved to see Saints just about hold on, I do admire the way Hull play under Radford. Lot’s of energy, power and intent, overpowering weaker teams and knocking better teams off their stride. When they’re down on energy they turn out the odd poor performance, but on their day they’re very difficult to play.

As much as it pains me to say, Hull were excellent today and a tad unlucky not to win. But saying that Saints were awful in patches and Wilkin is a liability for them.
Radford seems to have them playing at 110% and I do feel a tad envious that he gets that from his team. Sheens protects the players way too much and an kicking wouldn’t go amiss after a bad performance personally, Radford doesn’t pull any punches.
Peacock isn’t liked by many at Rovers that I know, (fans that is). I can’t stand the bloke. But he is living off his reputation as a player. That’ll only take him so far.
Watershed season for him with us I feel, his failure at signing decent players in the near future might (hope) has his bags packed for him. After all does he really give a damn about rovers like Motu Tony did about F.C.

Watershed season for the club as a whole.

My guess is that the success Peacock enjoyed throughout his playing career meant that his ideas on what you need to do to get it weren’t often challenged in a profound way.

I suspect Radford learned more from being involved in several seasons of mediocrity at Hull than he did winning trophies with Peacock at Bradford. You learn from failure, whereas success will tend to reinforce your preconceptions.

So what we really need is someone who has failed a lot!

In all seriousness, that Sheens can draw on lessons learned coaching struggling teams, as well as winning Premierships and a World Cup, is a cause for hope, imo.

You may be right about the failure thing. Chester’s not done so bad after being abject with us.

I think Chester is getting found out a bit now with Kear gone on Hull I think Radford has built a good squad that should carry him through for a few years yet we have to survive this season and then build as we do have some good young players at the club

A valiant loss is still a loss. We've had a fair few. Hard work and raw size is a hard combination to beat and add in couple of flair types and it's easy to see why a decent cup side. Unlucky I suppose but you can't always come out on the shiny side of a 50/50.

Yep, that's sport, I have no complaints. It was a great run whilst it lasted and we went out defending it right until the end.

Radford, or "Lugs" as you affectionately call him, has built a decent side and a great team ethos over the years. Far from just a decent cup side, he's taken us to consecutive SL semi-finals too, and this year despite our injury problems, we're still there or thereabouts in SL (at the moment).

The pie I had at halftime on Friday was nice

Chicken Balti, didn't go at half time cause of the lines waiting, went when a few were heading for the exit no waiting at all

Marsh in squad (why????) for Saints game, no Moss (been found out in defence due to size)

Saints tend to kill a player in opposition side in first few minutes this season.

Anyone want to guess who will hit the stretcher?

Any one from 17 take your pick

According to HDM interview with Sheens, Lee has been stuggling with a back problem. Might THAT be the reason for swapping Lee and Atkin around?

I thought they swapped cos Lee is absolute pony and only slightly less ineffective when at 7?