Think we peaked too early! Threw the game away - one more try in the first half would have seen off Hull. But they like many other sides had fight in them where we don't . Looked like men against boys in second half.

Unfortunately when a team underperforms as we did, the opposition doesn't have to be briliant to win. After the first 10-15 minutes I couldn't really see where our next score was coming from.
One to put to bed I think. The team did look jaded,we all know they CAN play better than that!

I thought Hull played very well, excellent kicking game from Horne meant we only got the ball in our own 20, first class display from the Hull youngsters Crooks, Lineham ( sp ) and Shaul. Fantastic linespeed from the Hull defence for the full 80 mins which put pressure on Smith and Sykes, a master class fro Houghton of how a modern hooker should play, Hull got three men into most tackles and did tackle round the legs ( unlike us ) , most of all their forwards were great and handed our lads their backsides in a basket. They were patient and built pressure well, all in all I thought Hull were very good and we could not match them. I put the win 90% down to Hulls good play, 10% down to the fact that we were mentally weak thinking that the game was won having gone 10 up. We seem to have the ability to put the cue on the rack. Got to say Anakin was once again great, would like to see Walshaw brought back and given a start as I think he has a point to prove.

Maybe part of the reason for the abject display was the fact we had had an extra week off and therefore found it harder to back up so quickly after Friday. Not making excuses for the team, just wondering if this was a contributing factor.

Also having 4 forwards who missed the week before and longer in Kirmond and Raleighs case, may also have led to the lack of go forward

I would add that none of the above excuses our continual failure to do the basics of the game right (tackling round the legs), working from marker to stop easy hards from acting half, playing panic rugby when we don't need to etc..)

I don't think the Hull win will have taught them anything about their side - they were pedestrian and played very basic rugby; we appeared to have about 15 mins of life in us, then we sputtered to a halt and ended up looking flat, jaded and disinterested.

think we just needed the win (any kind of win) yesterday which led to a very basic gameplan. Missing, McDonnell, Yeaman, Holdsworth, Seymour, Ellis - we had to make sure that the kids that came in could implement a pretty basic gameplan, and with Horne kicking well we were able to do that