I have been critical of him recently but he did play well today. He still gets run over too often in defence though.

Thought houghton was outstanding today,and thought heremaia made a big impression when he came on.What have you done to paea,he didnt look bothered ?

We don't have anyone directing us around the park . Look at Leeds forwards and peacocks aside very average imo but the 1,6 and 7 do an amazing job

Spot on Des. I think Mickey was showing his love for the Red and Whites.

Fair enough just a misunderstanding, agree about the big clubs as well.

Positives were Houghton look great yeamo was much better and miller showed some nice touches negatives were we have 2 poor wingers paea and carvell not doing it and Rankin not getting involved

Feka was also really good. Deserved to be on the winning side.

He won't get any wraps but I thought yeamo also had a good game

Yer sorry you were right feka was great but too be fair he has been our best prop for a few week now

Showing a few people (me included) up this year. There was plenty of complaining when he signed but he is looking really good. He is at a great weight where he is still making a big impact but also has good speed and seems to be fitter than ever.

Couldn't argue with any of that.

There better be a sending off in this game after the Crookes incident.
That looks on purpose from McIllorum. Crookes was bad but just very poor and lazy.

Edit: he's bee sin binned. It was much worse than Crookes tackle.

Pathetic, isn't it? The standard of officials in RL is a joke.

Disgraceful decision. Crookes' was reckless, that was malicious. Purely the colour of his shirt prevented a red card. Outrageous.

Top 4 reffing. Simple as that.

when have you ever seen a swinging arm coming off the shoulder first being a red card? if he hit peacock with that on the head first he would only just be waking up. I would be surprised if he got a ban for it.

Commiserations, those of us who have supported either team for any length of time know the feeling of a derby defeat.

Thought Hull were very intense...for the first minute and a half and then again after you went down to 12 men. Thought Aaron Heremaia made a difference when he came on who on earth decided to let him go to Widnes?

In between you were outclassed by a superior team. I was a bit angry with Rovers today for giving you a sniff in a game in which you really should have been hammered. The video ref prevented a hammering last time but Rovers themselves did their best to keep you in it on this occasion. In the end the better team by far won on both occasions.

Mickey Paea what has happened to him?

Who knows how the season will pan out from here but you have already had a glut of home fixtures and face a run of away games having still not won a single game away all season.

Back to today let's not be having the usual 'Rovers wanted it more' excuse. The difference today was in quality and there was a gulf. Of course it does help to have a proper coach preparing the team and right now I don't think you have one.

When Adam Pearson came in he had absolutely the right idea in appointing a man with massive RL experience to run things for him. Right idea but wrong man in McRae after his failure at South Sydney & Salford and his subsequent health issues.

So Pearson then decides he will run things himself and appoints Radford on a hunch. Dear oh dear.

Time for Pearson to step back appoint Brian Noble to oversee all rugby matters and restrict himself to the one thing he is good at...providing the money. Although as we all know he isn't in the same league as Koucash and one wonders how long he will be willing to finance the serial failure that is Hull FC.

Rovers were not "by far" the better team. They were there for the taking by a team with 12 men. Unfortunately for us been one man down eventually took its toll and two trys were scored on the wing where our missing man was stood.
While there's no doubting Rovers deserved the win to say they were by far the better team is a bit of a stretch. Rovers will not mount any kind of challenge with Keating in the halves. I give Burns credit as he has stepped up this year, but Keating is anonymous every time I've seen Rovers this year. Saying that at least you have burns. We have two often anonymous halves, hence our poor performances.

if ever we needed some good news on the recruitment front its now.we need something to raise spirits.

Radford getting sacked or offering his resignation would raise my spirits

Really?

I saw 2 pretty average teams out there today who will not bother the big boys come play off time.

I understand the mentality of a small time club looking at short term boosts result wise but but lets be honest neither team is bothering the end of season play off shake up - country mile away from ruling the roost 80s style.

I'm sure it's been mentioned - cba to look back in the thread - but Silverwood was the guy who put Bowen on report early in the year for a disgraceful high tackle on (Hardaker I think) which was worse than today's incident. He was 5 yards away from Bowen but 'couldn't tell' about the contact despite it being crystal clear to every onlooker. Today he couldn't get in his pocket quick enough. I'm afraid there'll always be a theory about how some teams are refereed differently to others. The evidence is as plain as day to back it up.

Don't think it has been mentioned. Forgot all about that incident.
I have no problem with Crookes been sent off today as long as the reffing is consistent but it quite clearly isn't.

Absolutely the Bowen tackle was as cringeworthyly hard as they come - inevitable red card to most the viewers at the time.

Never underestimate a top 4 reffing decision with the World Club Challenge aroud the corner.

Dont get me wrong maybe Crookes should have seen red today but I have seen at least 4 similar calls which got nowt this year.

That's exactly how I felt a couple of years ago at the magic weekend. Dobson was sin binned for professional fould which was 100% correct. My issue is that it happens in a lot of games and the punishment isn't the same. Totally 100% agree with you!