Oh another week another Horne thread this time a little more balanced then the one last week, perhaps he will get the monkey(s) off his back next week.

Then we can select another player for "FALL GUY FOR THE ATTACK OF THE MINDLESS"
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Well said. Horne MOM, followed by Mckinnon, then Yeamon I reckon.

HOrne gets too much unwarranted abuse on these boards, and others can do seemingly no wrong. Horne for me was by no means our failing last year, but after last week you would have thought him personally responsible for our last 4 years of woe.

HOrne has been a great player for FC, and I hope this season is a good one for him. Seymour and Horne will do well, IMO.

Shhhhhhhh, you are not allowed to watch the game. Seymour is a god, and HOrne is a worthless cretin. Come on, get with the mindless masses!

Maybe if you had attended for the last few years you would understand some peoples concerns about Horny....As for people declaring him a great player next week it will take more than 2 games to convince!!..Horney has got some good rugby in him however like I say had you attended you would understand it is not consistent, he has had more poor games than good the last couple of seasons. Saying that i am sure all fans will be ecstatic if he can regain some consistency in his final years of the game.

You know why I have not been for the last two years

LOL

Most of the current player are the last mobs signings and that includes Rich Horne, I think we should all stand back now and see what developes. Horney has had a couple of serious injury/illness problems and no settled half back partner since Cookey defected. He was expected to lead the team around the park, a job he was never upto, given game plans with no back up plan.

Lets see what he can do now under a proper coach, if not bye bye

anyways how uans doing ?

"FALL GUY FOR THE ATTACK OF THE MINDLESS"....is what you have called people who have criticized Horney, the fact remains he has only produced a handful of decent games and the criticism has been warranted!, last week he was dire, this week by all accounts very good, personally I would like to see very good for a consistent run of games (and believe me I hope I see it). I actually think having 2 half backs biting at the bit in the background may help towards Horney achieving consistency because if he does not either Ellis or Nicklas will play their skin out given the chance to secure a spot.

Oh and I am well by the way

Horne has been a decent player for Hull, I just can't see the 'legend' status some seem keen to bestow on him. Average super league player in an average super league team, the fact he's a Hull lad seems to cloud peoples' view of him.

Not read the rest of the thread. He was excellent today with his tackling,kicking,running and distribution. Well played Horney the challenge is to keep that level of performance consistently.

Not you plantpot



Or Horney its the way every season a player gets selected for special treatment by a section of the fans. I just think its one thing having a jar down the pub discussing players, the team , performances etc but on here its far too public. Can you think back to your younger days around the team of the 80s and some half wit spouting off about at say Knocker, Crooksy





or worse still Woodsy.

Glad u is ok and I bet missing us all

Horne was ace today, like a new player for us

I don't knock
players but for him and our/Hull F C sake that he does it week in week out.If not there are
players waiting to take his place.

Don't you know how to use a sentence correctly? Also whats with the space then a double dot?
Your posts are awkward to understand.

the post police are out!

The 2 best tries of the game were McKinnon's, and IIRC Horne was involved in neither (I'm trying to remember the initial break for his 2nd, was it Manu who fed Yeaman?).

Don't get me wrong, he did have have a good game, but to paint it as if the entire good performance revolved around him is inaccurate. Seymour was as important to us today.

I thought that was Radford? I can't keep up any more.

I think horne had a good game today. one of his best displays in whole last season.

mckinnon will be a great buy but for me i think our best signing will be o'carroll. him an moa as battering rams

He was particularly poor last week against opposition that may possibly be better than we're giving credit for. He was very average today in the first half against what looked to be very very poor oppositon ( difficult to say though because we have no benchmarks yet ) but he did sharpen up in second half and looked OK. Jury's still out big time. Thought Nicklass looked on his toes when he came on and definitely warrants a bit of time on the pitch this year. Hopefully it will be him and others coming through that will help to maintain that edge in Horne.

horne was man of match for me followed by mckinnon with o carrol yeaman worth a mention. Seymore without imposing himself brings some direction we haven't had for years! this and last week has had a couple of really smart touches! think when he's really settled in he'll be a great signing! that's gotta be good for horne. as for Horne he saved 2 tries as well as making numerous half breaks and put others through. kicking game not to bad either!!

If we spend the season arguing which halfback played better then i'll be happy. Pleased with how O'Carroll has settled in.

I for one blasted RH last week because his all round game was poor and i would expect better from a very experienced player, but i thought he had a very good game against Bradford.He now has to back that game up and become more consistent.Saying that his partnership with seymore is looking very encouraging, so lets all hope Rich has a great season.

I didn't go against Rovers but it sounded like Hull had very little ball in the game and what we did have was near our own line. Halves will struggle to impress on that basis. Yesterday our forwards crossed the game line regularly and we made fewer mistakes and gave away far fewer penalties. Much easier for the halves to operate in that scenario.

Was talking to the bro-in-law about O'carroll and he was saying that when he and Prescott came through,O'Carroll was the better of the 2 but the injury did for him and put him down the pecking order.

Half back in playing well behind dominant pack shocker.

I said last week a lot were overly critical of Horne in a game where he no time or field position. This week it sounds like your pack dominated Bradfords and as such the HB's made hay. Isn't this usually the way with RL.

He was always the better prospect, the question mark with him was his injuries. If those are behind him then we have an excellent young prop.

Spot on. Not undermining Rovers but I don't think your pack was particularly dominant. The issue was you kicked much better and we made too many mistakes which meant we did far too much defending and were constantly coming off our own line. Took it's toll in our first preseason game, especially 2nd half.