Thought Sao was really good until he almost cost us the game. Ridiculous offload to throw.
So much sloppy play in there when we should have been seeing that game out fairly comfortably.
Discipline is just shocking at the moment and I don't see it changing any time soon.
Glad for the 2 points. A good dig by London.

2nd half particularly awful, where can't we defend kicks (although they were all very good kicks).

Thought Russel, Walker and Smith did well. Better game from Lane.

Need to get Brown out of the halfs, Hoy or give Charles a run there.

Agree about Sao, good gane but one massive error, sums up our team that.

Getting harder and harder to defend Okunbor.

Did Severs ever come on?
If not, then I really don't understand why he was on the bench.

Spot on that and il throw Macintosh into the ring as well…seemed after the forward pass we went off the boil big time and apart from one bit of class for browns try…that was it….I don’t like to bag players who play this game but Okunbor is poor as for discipline,still a problem but I couldn’t work out what some was for tbh.

Think he come of for Staveley

Really lucky to get anything out of that. The second half was pathetic, we're by far the thickest team in the league.

Feels like more of a loss tbf

Ashworth continues to impress me.

Runs it hard down the middle and finds some good lines. Has a controlled off-load.

Staveley is a freak for his age. I genuinely feel this lad will go from strength to strength.

No debate that Walker is our number 1 and happy with that. Dangerous with ball in hand, always there and runs it out well.

Thought Russell was good. Doesn't do anything less than 100%

Definitely a bottom table clash and a long season for both of us, but chuck in Pele, Ese, Trueman and Tindall and put Brown to 9 I think the season could have some spark.

Game of big moments, Brown scores that and we win by 20 plus IMO.

Yep, think most had our fears in off season, but was hoping they wouldn't come true, seems they are.

Best we can hope for is 10th, which we will battle with Cas for.

Was the proverbial 12 point swing

Think if Martin holds onto the ball we win easier too.

Really weird game, will have to watch it back(or maybe not), but did London ever look like scoring apart from kicks and the intercept.

I'm hoping Trueman can come back and steer us about.

He's got 7 on his back but Nu Brown isn't the answer to our half back woes.

Totally got out of jail today, any other team would've comfortably beaten us.

Really laboured performance lacking any sort of structure which has to be a real worry with Truman out for another couple of months.

A win is a win as they say but by god we got out of jail today and yet again was all down to our own doing.

Thought Russell and Bullock actually showed up some of our players and pity nobody else ran it in like Matty.

We look a poor side and not helped by our pedestrian line speed in both attack and defence.

Nu Brown is just not a halfback and would be better deployed at 9 for me. Just don’t understand the recruitment signing Houghton and Nu Brown when both are very similar and hookers especially when we needed and still need a specialist halfback. At least Balmforth has shown he has some speed and guile about his game and it’s that we are lacking yet doesn’t get a look in. So either give Balmforth game time or promote Charles until Trueman is back, N Brown is wasted in the half.

Though Staveley, Jack Brown & Ashworth were good along with Ligi though he could have cost us the game with that stupid offload. Okunbor was better but still some way off the performance level considered good enough in SL. Thought Walker also had a good game Smith and McIntosh put a decent shift in too.

We are lacking a leader on the field no question and the amount of dumb rugby/decisions is ridiculous.

Really not sure if Smith has it to turn us around.

All in all we knew we weren’t going to be great this season but my god we are shocking and just look a disorganised rabble.

Yeah, doesn't quite work does it, he does some good things, but just not in a halfback way, think he has to be at 13 or 9, Hoy back in or start Charles.

Well that was fun. We score from Walker break game over. But no this is Hull. Second half was poor. Maybe you can't see it on TV but our wingers need to keep out a bit more. Russell played well but if I was the opposition I would kick high to him all day. Houghton justified his spot but there lies the problem as brown isnt a half. Missed Hoy IMO. But a wins a win..Oh to be a supporter of FC

No they didn’t,they are a poor team tbh and looked clueless at times,we didn’t look good either but we looked like we could play.

Terrible performance, we look like a championship team. Prior to today London scored 1 try in 2 games, today they scored 5, if they had a kicker they'd have won

Spine has to be

Walker
Hoy
Smith
Houghton
Brown

Balmforth on bench

Brown

Great work by Smith to back himself at the end there. Something we’ve missed for a long time.

Tried really hard to lose that one and I don’t think there’s much to be gained from a full dissection. Win’s a win.

Despite us been lucky, I'd say that we were still the best side and the stats I'm sure back it up, their kicking game overall was outstanding. Not something to brag about though beating a team of that quality (as I said pre game, there have all the odds against them)

Would love to know the percentage of ex players who score against us.

Would have no complaints if we had lost today. A win is a win....but....

London came with belief they could beat us, we have to be thankful they missed 3 conversions I guess.

It shouldn't take 75 minutes for a team to show more enthusiasm in the last few minutes of a game than they did all match.

Another solid performance from Staveley probably the bright spot.

On that showing no.
Even Castleford are a lot better organised team than we are
I agree with Smiggs apart from making us into the most undiciplined team in S/L for the second successive season,Smith has done nothing with this squad either in structure,attack or defence.
He is known by HKR fans as tinkering Tony.Last week with Smith and Hoy in the halfs and Brown at nine we looked better despite the loss, yet just to bring Houghton back he moves players around and drops Balmforth who seriously has to wonder what he has to do to get into the 17.
We know Houghtion is solid but offers no threat from acting half,so we have to play Brown at nine.
For me the clocks ticking for Smith

We showed something different in attack today but kick defence was woeful. Matty Russel had the most energy running the ball in and was a refreshing change to the standard plodding forward. Last season we would have lost that game so credit to the players for playing till the end. I will take any win at the moment and even a poor win has to be a confidence boost for the players.
I was mystified by some of the calls from the ref today for and against us, will watch it back later.
Also credit to the handful of London fans they made plenty of noise in the North stand whereas our fans were flat for most of the match.

If Tony smith didn't have his reputation and this was an inexperienced Aussie coaching us for the same amount of time Smith has, his position would be looking increasingly untenable. We're regressing compared to how we were under Hodgson, discipline is terrible and too many dumb plays like watching the ball bounce out from kickoff