Lots of unemployed coaches on this board

But that's a different point then. He tried to shoehorn Dowes into the side, yes. Radford justified his place.

Did Radford come back on?

Don't think so. He wasn't needed, Fitzgibbon was fresh as a daisy.

Radford over Dowes everytime, as for Briscoe most fans were begging for him to be played at centre.

Definatley Radders, looked good today.

All the Briscoe at centre crew have gone hiding or are saying "he will get better in the position".

How many times do we have to have the same conversations about team selections? Agar seems to pick his team based on which senior players happen to be fit and how he can somehow shoehorn them into the team.

Radford hadn't played in preseason, yet is selected to start, then lasts 20 mins max and doesn't come back. Why?

Must have been injured, I cant think of any other reason cos he started the game very well and played a big part in our early domination. In fact the changes Agar made at 14-0 seem to disrupt the team too much.

Defence and discipline cost Hull today the attempted tackles on Newton and Galea were nothing short of pathetic. Why people are looking to slag players like Briscoe and Lyne amazes me. OK Lyne gave a soft penalty away but some far more senior players did a while lot worse in the penalty and missed tackle stakes.

Raddford said on RH Hamstring injury the interviewer said a "sprinters injury" Radford replied "I did not know I had one until today".

If you think that, go and listen to james webster in the season preview on sltv.

I don't understand all of these comments about "all the briscoe at centre lovers are hiding". Err...? Didn't think he had a bad game at all.
Sean long made some disgraceful decisions in defence. Anybody else notice that the only two times long ran with the ball he put someone through a massive gap (the one where fitz knocked on, cant remember who long gave it to), and the second time sharp scored in the corner. Coincidence?
Though danny houghton started the game superbly, O'meley gave 100% all the way through played well. Moa came on and eventually make an impact, when we finally started utilizing his strengths... giving him it to run onto!
Manu didn't get enough quick ball at pace outwide
Turner is clueless, feels the need to miss out 3 men to give the ball to the winger allowing the defence to slide with incredible ease, reducing all attacking threat.
Dowes had a shocker compared to his normal standards, gave away a penalty and missed important tackles which is unlike him
Fitz looked knackered
Westerman will learn
Tickle played decently
Whiting tried his hardest ( as usual )
Sharp needs a bit more composure
Need more effort from other players so lyne doesnt have to scoot from dummy half and get 1 metre.

Loads of things need sorting out if we don't want to get smashed by leeds.

That's exactly my point, we basically changed the make up of our pack to "fit in" a player that didn't play a pre-season game. If this was Thursron, Marshall or Cronk i could understand but Radford?

This kind of thing has happened since day 1 with Agar. Anyone else remember Moa being left out of the CC game against Leeds?

From an outsiders veiw its your Coach that needs changing hes simply not upto Coaching at this level,i know he is british and all that but he is not up to it IMO.

Hes not, what spoon plays Whiting at 1, Briscoe at 3, Westerman at 11, no interchange hooker for Houghton, Dowes and Radford as 2 of 4 props.

Tell us something we dont already know....

No shiit?

Thanks for pointing that out to us.

WRONG! Whiting at fullback WRONG! pathetic tackling too slow very poor,Fitz making schoolboy errors, need I go on! Tansey would have made a huge difference, why didn,t we get him sorted after the first offence?
We will be in serious trouble if that is all we have to offer.

see team selection all wrong thread please !

Serious trouble?

Have SLE introduced a naughty step?

I blame agar

agar was clueless were on top than takes the two props off and rovers come back into the match. Everyone watching sees dobsons short pasess causing all the problems but him. A LICENCE behind the scences with a conference coach in charge of the team. First time Ive gone against him but taxis for agar before its to late

I am sure it was tried,Tansey`s fault if he is too pig headed to listen.