You could tell they had a good work-out against Wigan the week before....we will be better for that against Bradford.On a positive front...Mcinnon looks the part as does Heramia...Seymour showed good touches in parts.Lynch his normal steady self....biggest let down was Horne....i know 1st match but doesnt look any different from last season.

End of the day...a friendly and full body contact work out for us...if the in-breds want to celebrate it as though they actually won something,thats up to them...at least limpdick wont be limp.

i never think you can gauge too much out of 'trial' matches,ive been to ones before which weve won handsomely and you hear 'arent we great,win the double this year!'and ones that end in defeat,and its 'arent we crap,might as well not bother this season'..its laughable really..all the interchanges,players who havent played a serious game in months,new players etc..its just building towards the first 'real' game of the season,then we will see exactly where we are..

Are you the one that's actually Bertie/Andy or was that "looking in"?

Maybe we're still not playing nicely with Radio Humberside. Amusingly RH's solitary post-match retweet had a hashtag #uptherobins #hkr. Nice olive branch

Will this performance have any impact on the team you send to Fev on Thursday?


Maybe give 1 or 2 of the 'underperformers' a bit more game time?

Only a friendly, however our defending looked poor at parts.

Thought that the referee was abysmal, no consistency at all in his decisions.

Well done to Rovers, they made some good moves at times and exploited holes in our defence.

I thought that Will Sharp was much improved on his performances last season, and Martin looked okay when he came on. Was impressed with O'Carroll, he was much better than I had expected.
Lynch was good in his stints, although I would have liked to have seen more of him.

Was disappointed in Horne today, he had a very poor game and appeared to be a weak-link.

I'm also not sure why we didn't utilise high kicks more often, considering the wind, etc.

We also appeared to not really have a plan B, we just carried on the way we were.

However, it was our first game and so it's understandable that we weren't fully settled and that things didn't 'click' entirely, but hopefully we'll perform better against Bradford next week and carry on an upward trend ready for the start of the season.

Unfortunate for Beaumont to get such a bad injury, hope he recovers well. I thought that Paea was good for KR, and Craig Hall showed some attacking flair too (but again made one of his trademark cockups).

...Unbelievable that, what a sad pathetic bunch they really are, they have just made themselves looks silly and that tweet confirms what every FC fan has always known, they would not know independent broadcasting if it bite them on the butt!

I can't see Horneys game changing at all. He'll still do his predictable drop off and show and go and poor kicking game.

Couldn't say for certain but I would. Some players clearly need as much game time as they can get. Seymour and Horne need more time to gel, so I would give them the first 40 minutes at least.

to be honest you don't full know what a season will be like until the Easter weekend, who can forget how we started 2009 like a house on fire...then it decended into one of the worst seasons ever...2006 started badly, and we ended up in a Grand Final.

which is why the amount of people moaning on and on for most of the game today annoyed me.

The game changer was Whitings knock on from the kick off at 18-20.

Thought the ref proved why he isn't a SL ref, he wasn't to blame for the loss but he was awful.

I was pretty pleased with the way we played, looked good in attack in parts especially Seymour and McKinnon. The new tackling structure will work well with a more experienced ref, keeping them on there feet for a lot longer than previous seasons then putting them on the ground and working hard to get them on the back. O'Carroll went well aswell for me in attack and defence.

People need to remember that it was our 1st game back, everything isnt going to work straight away.

Don't be so precious. What's with.......all.....the.....dots?

It was only a bit of wind, he'll be fine, unlike Beaumont who was jeered with "Oh get up you f*nny", nice.

Incidentally, I remember last season's RH testimonial which FC won. Counted then, didn't it?



I'm not going to come back here, It's too negative. If you want to respond do it in PM or I'll miss it.

Its called team spirit...isnt it annoying.

Thought McKinnon, Martin and O'Carroll looked good out of our new signings. I didn't really notice Lynch, and Aspinwall looked average for the short time he was on. Heremaia didn't look as good as Houghton when he was on, and Seymour looked no better than Horne. I was particularly disappointing with his kicking game. Obviously not going to judge them on one game though. O'Meley and Moa looked the best out of our players from last season IMO.

TBF Marfa, it wasn't their comment, they were retweeting what someone else had posted. Guess they were too busy with Craig Sandercock. Thought at one point they were going to ask him what he was having for his tea the interview went on that long.

Spot on. I know it's a derby so fans get a bit more carried away but as a first hit out I was quite pleased with some of the things we did. I think everyone has said it will take a bit of time for changes to take hold but we lose a meaningless pre-season friendly to the banjo players and it's suddenly all doom and gloom.

Disappointed as with any defeat but not downhearted. This was the first game for the first teamers in four months. Timing is bound to be out. Obviously we need a big improvement next week with Warrington just seven days later.

Pleased with McKinnon, looked steady under the high ball and he is also vocal. Sharp looked good but on the flip side I have to agree with the comments about Rich Horne. Improvement needed there.

Hornes had his day and hasn't been consistantly good for years. He's a weak link in the team for me.

O'Carroll was our best prop today did some really good things in attack and defence. Martin has to be our starting centre, Turner isn't good enough and never will be in that position, the only position he might make it in will be in the backrow.

The halves will get better with game time I've no doubt. The only thing that really disappointed me was that our support play still looked lacking and for me this is an area that we have needed to improve on for years.

I know it was our first game and only a friendly but think we need at least a very good stand of and top notch prop with size to have a chance of winning out . Has much has I think our props are ok there are all to small and of similar size . Give Horne benefit of doubt but looks like we"ll only get a good game every 4 , hope I'm wrong though . With a bit of look stil fancy us for 4/5 as it will take time to gel .

Completely agree about Martin - got to start, surely. And also that the support play was missing coupled with quite poor kicking to say we supposedly have the hookers and all four halves working hard on this.

I agree with the prop point we do lack size there and someone who will rough them up .

I'm not bertie or Andy, but I have been looking in at what's going on Mrs B,

I wouldn't be too disappointed if I was a Hull fan, 8 new players and new plays to learn, Rome wasn't built in a day was it.

think prop size ok! not exactly small,o carrol prob smallest and most saying he was best for us! when season stars and its 10 interchange it'll suit us not being to big,especially on the hotter days!

i thought we looked good when we slung the ball about
defence wasnt bad in the first half as we must have had 3 attemps on our line and it took them about 20 mins to get on the score sheet
plenty of dropped ball when near their line
silly penalties
not a bad run out to blow the cobwebs off
weve had 3 yrs of poor coaching and bad management to overcome
theres lots to improve on but i think we`ll get there...its a marathon not a sprint