Is he not struggling with physical fitness too? He looked like he'd ran a marathon after barely 10 minutes

Apart from when a 30 year old plus prop forward danced around him then beat him for pace in the 2nd half and then when he let the ball bounce for Radfords try. Players out of postion get foundout. We had that all last year, Richards would have been a better option.

You may be right - I was far too busy admiring his bum.

not a good thing to hear

Youre worse than my girlfriend with Pat Richards!

Palessina (sp) caused problems as usual, going into every tackle hard, making yards, then looking to flick it out the back door.

Both teams were fairly even tonight, but Hull may have had the edge of the fitness front.

Positives:

Tim Smith -- Good kicking game again. His cross field kicks are as good as Barretts.
Defence was good apart from a few lapses.
McIlorum had a decent game and probably played more minutes than out first choice 9.
Fielden -- Improved on last week.

For all the Riddell beaters, he picked up an injury early on, I was suprised he came back on at all.

For me, like a couple of Hull fans have said, very even tonight... can't say best team won or lost. Thought we lost the game when Roberts let the ball bounce and they scored from it... but he was still 100% better than Mathers. We made too many mistakes near the line and that is something that needs sorted. I also thought a couple of pens went their way that shouldn't have but hey it evens itself out over the season



Positve for me were Tommy as usual, Feka looked good, O'Carroll looked good but Locky's defence was awesome. He was everywhere tonight and was man of the match for me - go on Locky bashers... deny it!

How was the trip home??

Why do you ask?

Cat 5, Drinking fine wine..Kids asleep..Boo's the team..

I have no idea what all this category stuff is!!!

And I certainly do not boo the team - i can't stand it.

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I do when they are Sh1te..which is most weeks......

I didn't think we were too bad tonight.

A couple of poor defensive lapses i.e. Roberts letting the ball bounce leading to Radford's try cost us the match.

We built some decent pressure, made more breaks than we've been seeing for a while and kicked pretty well too.

Although ball retention and discipline wasn't great tonight, it was far better than last week although obviously last week couldn't have been much worse.

I felt as a team we tried hard tonight, especially reading the official website and realising we had roughly five players injured/carrying injuries.

If we'd have played like that Vs Wakefield we'd have won that match IMO. I know that's just an if. We can get a whole lot better than we've played tonight and I'm hoping we will.

Would guess I'm prob Cat 2 then on that basis!

There wasn't much difference between the 2 sides. Every time we got near the hull try line in the 2nd half we made an error. Both teams lacked any flair in attack.

What category is that??

If she's fit I'd give her 1

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So did we, and when we lost Phelps it certainly didn't help us.

Tim Smith was the best player on the field last night by a long way, O'Loughlin and Tomkins were good, and we had the chances to win it. As a couple of Hull fans have said it was game that could have gone either way.

The first half. A completely different start to last week. We looked good, dangerous and entertaining at times. It's just a shame we couldn't do it for 80 mins.

I was very happy with Tim Smith last night. He kicked well and had a very good short and long passing game. Our best player IMO.

Apart from the one mistake, Roberts looked good at fullback. Well positioned and very cool whilst dealing with attacking kick. He made a fantastic break in the second half after collecting a kick.

Sean O'Loughlin. I thought he played very and well and is only one of a couple of players to have a good, cosistant start to the season.

Also Feka, Fielden, Tomkins, O'Carroll and McIlroum all played pretty well too and should keep their places for next week.

How good was that catch that he took one handed above his head and still brought it down to retain the ball



Awesome stuff.

Closely followed by Yeamans bone shuddering tackle!