Think it'll be tough for Cas. Even if they beat Saints at home they'd still be behind them on points difference. Meaning they'll have to win at least one (probably two) of their remains games which are ALL away. Catalans this weekend and then Hudds, Leeds and Wigan to come for them.

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Really? Wow

Just a minnow really!

They're rapidly running out of time for it to do so though. They only have 8 points to play for and are already five behind us. Their away fixtures are in Yorkshire, including a game at Cas who are pushing them hard and their home games are against Wigan and Warrington.

McGuire rested and as expected no Cuthbertson.

Hardaker
Handley
Briscoe
Ablett
Hall
Sinfield
Burrow
Garbutt
R.Ward
Singleton
S.Ward
Keinhorst
Walters

Achurch
Peacock
Leuluai
Golding

Not a bad starting 13 with the exception of Walters at loose. Ablett at centre over Keinhorst is sensible (particularly as it will reduce Ablett's workload in defence). Looking forward to seeing how Briscoe goes at centre and how Robbie Ward fares.

I'm absolutely delighted McGuire is rested

They need to swap Keinhorst and Ablett around.

As good as Sinfield's decision making usually is, that was a poor decision to kick on the 3rd there.

What's that Shaun McRae expression? Knockonathon?

Hull unlucky not to be ahead. Leeds have played like a side that has its mind elsewhere.

Abletts defence has been really poor, certainly correct when they swapped him and Briscoe.

This has been really poor so far. And If Singleton is going to offload, he needs to open his flaming eyes what's around him.

If we cut out the unforced errors & treat Hull with respect we should win this easily.
But carry on after half time as we have been then Hull will come back into this.

Sinfield has to start at hooker for the rest of the year.

The last tackle plays have been terrible from, Leeds.

agreed but to be expected i think - first choice half backs missing/out of position and now no zak at full back

never got out of second gear and won quite comfortably

Seventeen minutes it took you to realise the problem with your previous post.

Sinfield to hooker? I don't see why playing him at hooker is too much of a problem, he can still move in to first or 2nd receiver on the last. Anyway, some of the kicks, and last tackle plays from Sinfield were equally mediocre.

The fact is, hooker is such an important position. You need quality there, and Sinfield is the only fit player in the squad who can provide that quality. Burrow can't do it for 80 minutes, and Robbie Ward looks way off the required standard at the moment.

Leeds played very loose and in many respects badly. But I never thought they would beat us. Must be depressing supporting Hull.

Everyone was guilty of some loose off-loads but Ward's, given the position we were in on the field, the tempo of the game, had me screaming. It was never on an just brought Hull back into the game.

On the positives I thought Garbutt was a monster and Singleton played very well. Whilst at full back Hardaker was class. I'm not going to count the dropped bomb against Ash Golding as a negative because I agree with Carney, those kicks were immense. That mistake aside Golding was very good doing forward I thought.

Another step closer to top or top two, key players rested and it appears no injuries to key players. Whilst frustrating to watch can't be unhappy with that outcome.

PS, I've heard rumours of Westerman to us on here and elsewhere in the past . Unless he is just saving up hos worst displays for us I desperately hope it isn't true. Shell of a player who just looks lazy and error ridden.

But Houghton tackles & tackles & keeps going for 80 minutes.

If Sinfield isn't quick enough to play in the halves, I dread to think what that makes Jordan Abdull who got embarrassingly burned for pace for that last try.

When we went direct and ran straight into the guts of that Hull side, we were chewing up the ground. For some reason we kept going away from it though and trying to throw the ball around.

Last tackle options were poor at times, but that's a consequence of having your best kicker of a ball trapped in at dummy half. Hence it would have been nice to see a bit more of Robbie Ward to enable Sinfield to take control of the kicking game.

All in all though, mission accomplished.

Garbutt was MOM IMO, he did the full 80, didn't he? He looks a superb signing so far. I also thought Singleton, and Walters worked hard. Especially in his first stint, and Achurch looked OK, so it'll be interesting to see if he did enough to get picked for the final next week.
Golding looked sharp when he came on, although I'm still not sure if full back will be where he ends up.
Robbie Ward got caught at marker on his first touch, and seemed to go into his shell, I'd be very surprised if we see much of him in a Leeds shirt again. He's OOC isn't he.

No injuries confirmed ?

Given the circumstances i think it was a very good win and kudos to the Coach for getting his selections right imo.
Personally i would have rested Zak and Sinfield purely through fear of injury but it would have been too many Garbutt was immense as was Stevie Ward (G1's Coronary aside).
The Cod Eads did ST's on their own patch last week so were undoubtedly up for this but we did the job and we've secured a top 4 spot already onward and upward great stuff.

Yeah of course

If it wasn't for Houghtons' woeful pass that led to briscoes ' try, who knows how the game woukd've ended

We had nothing but pride to play for and some of our u19s didn't let us down

I doubt Achurch will get in ahead of Delaney.