I thought the same thing, don't think we've had 2 poorer performances in a row under Gentle. Even top teams have off weeks.

Good to see in the PA match report PG's not happy about the performance.

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Indeed, we got a poor performance out of our system and picked up two points. That'll do for me, although obviously big improvements are needed for next weekend.

And i think they will......we always seem to bounce back well after a poor performance and just easing Horne back in will be a big boost to us and maybe with another player back,we can kick on.That is 1 out of the 4 that Gentle has ear-marked as vital to our top 4 hopes.

Gentle has some big calls to make with the team selection (a nice headache to have for once!) such as Russell sounded lively again today, and if he brings Horne back in at 6 it means Whiting has to move to 13, second row or the bench...and Westerman also has to fit back in somewhere in the 17. Tony Martin is also potentially back, to give a decision of youth or experience between him and Crooks.

Horne to 6...Martin back in,Whiting to 13 with Westerman on bench...gives us a hell of a attacking bench

I think Gentle should go with experience for the time being.
After today's performance I think we need an experienced team out next week to try and steady to ship and bounce back.

Did we lose?

I'd be tempted to go with Horne at 1, Martin at 3, Whiting at 6 and Westerman at 13. I can see the arguments for keeping Russell at 1 and playing Horne at 6 though. Nice to have options.

Leave out our best player today who caused problems all over

Didn't go today, but as Russell is unlikely to be staying after the Rovers game, there is a case for saying that we should go with the combinations that we'll be using for the rest of the season. As I quite clearly stated, I can see positives in either option.

I'm fairly confident we will keep Russell for the rest of the season, so I would go with Horney in the halves. Martin/Crooks and Westy/Whiting are the hardest choices. Whiting has done well coming off the bench, so I think I would start with Westy. Not sure on Crooks or Martin yet. A bench of O'Carroll, Whiting, Pitts and Aspy is very strong indeed.

I'd go with something like

Russell, Sharp, Martin, Turner, Briscoe, Horne, Seymour, Lynch, Houghton, Moa, Manu, Tickle, Whiting,
Bench: O'Carroll, Westerman, Aspinwall/Pitts/Ellis (a combination of the last 3 for the 2 remaining bench spots).

There's not much up front on that bench, missing omeley for when Moa is off the pitch

O'Carroll has been better than O'Meley this season, in my opinion. Aspinwall is solid as an interchange prop, too.

I don't agree. If you've got the Leeds game still on sky+, watch the momentum switch when omeley replaces ocarroll in the last twenty. They were all over us, we couldn't stop them going forward and we were getting nowhere. As soon as omeley returned the whole thing switched. I like ocarroll, but omeleys gonna be hard to replace

There were many reasons for the shift in momentum in the Leeds game. And I'm talking about the season as a whole, rather than just one game.

Who were the two Hull loonies scrapping on the steps as we left our stand? You can't take us anywhere.

As was I, it just so happened the example I chose to back up my point occurred in the Leeds game. Is that okay with you?

It would be if you could demonstrate a causal relationship between the interchange and the change in momentum.

O'Carroll and Aspinwall can both do good jobs in the front row.

I'd like to have kept O'Meley for one more year, but I think this latest injury will be on injury too many. He's had such a stop-start season and I feel he'd have to do something spectacular in the 2nd half of the season to get a contract offer from the club.

They'd be City fans in disguise, surely

Just got home and although it was well out of the way, I thought Gillingham's ground was pretty good. Similar to the Brentford ground but better in terms of facilities. Decent crowd for a London game too, maybe they could be a nomadic London team and generate a following that way.

Terrible game though

but 2 points is 2 points