Who cares how far infront or behind Rovers we are? It's about our overall league position, nothing is won by us finishing above Rovers (unless Rovers' are second).

they (kr) will treat good friday as their cup final, (as usual), i expect them to have the majority of their injured players back too! its their most important fixture of the season!

Next week if Salford can beat Huddersfield it would be brilliant if we could beat Rovers to go top of the table!!!

truein the purest sense but how annoying are these posts??, same thing as " I don't care what Rovers do as long as Hull win" Rubbish, it's all about beating Rovers and putting them back in their place. Please don't delude yourselves otherwise.

For a supposed massive Hull fan you don't get to many games. Always on here when the dobbins are away

Thought we did well to grind out a win as i felt Bradfords pack was very very good tonight and made huge yards every time they came out of defence.....they ripped us apart from dummy half but we hung in and just had that little bit of spark when it matterd....a game we maybe should have lost but didnt.

Again I agree with you baldy, we appear to much tougher mentally under Gentle.

And isn't that a massive change from losing games that we should have won over the last few seasons? A real step up in mental toughness.

Aye last season this was the type of game we would have collapsed and lost.

Good win Hull FC!

Your young guns did well to close out a very tight match!

Really pleased with the win tonight given the lack of some key players and taking on a very determined and resolute Bradford side.

What a fantastic atmosphere too!

Nor will they want to be 8 points behind us.

haven't heard that mentioned for a while, I wish i could afford to attend all matches! Heard the Old faithfuls Singing away!

I was embarrassed for him. The dobbins get beat by the bottom of the table club and park sounds like he's trying to fellate him

Partly down to poor play at times, partly Bradford being consistently offside so it was hard work getting the ball out wide before they were in our faces.

Alibert had a poor game, particularly with offsides and forward passes being let go for most of the match.

TBF, it was his only kick of the game that was anything short of excellent.

he was terrible! in the first half he pointed to sammut to let him know he was offside, yet allowed him to make the tackle!!

Just back enjoyed the game well done to the lads. Tough against a big Bradford team and us with 2 young debutants on the bench but we're made of sterner stuff these days.

Must have missed the rule change where when the ball is bounced by the attacker in the in goal area results in a drop out.

Great effort all round

Overall a better result than performance, although we worked really hard for it so all credit to the players. Think we were a bit predictable and dull at times, but as I said in my other post, the offsides made it hard to play much differently at times. Several decent performances, but players that particularly stood out to me were Horne, Ellis, Turner, Lynch, O'Carroll, and Manu.

Whilst he is undoubtedly having a great season, I have one slight constructive criticism of Houghton: He is starting to run from dummy half almost every time, even if it may not be the best option. Sometimes tonight with the persistent offsides it could have done with quick passing direct from the ptb instead IMO, so that we could speed up the ball movement to the wider players. He needs to vary his play a bit more so that the opposition have doubts in the mind about what he is going to do, it will only serve to make him even more threatening in possession.

Excellent assessment. Agree about Houghton. O Carroll had his best game that I've seen to date.

Agree, thought O'Carroll had 2 very good stints. Starting to remind me of Greenhill a bit in the way he takes the ball up.

after that we're second in the table, and, never thought I'd say this, above Warrington on points difference

With a game in hand

forgot that part

I'd agree with most of that, though I thought the performance was excellent under the circumstances. Rewind twelve months and we'd have lost that game, without question. It certainly wasn't what you'd call expansive, but I think that was mainly down to the game plan for the night rather than any failing on the part of the players.