good job really cos it dont get you pi$$ed anyways

You wouldn't have been if you drank that muck in your hipflask! Absinthe for me on Friday, nothing else will do

Raynor has got to replace Calderwood when he's fit, and as for signing Fitzpatrick, do it now!! And Myler, Stapleton and Cashmere come to think of it!

I might join you with that one!

I don't know what it is with Hull but for years they seem to have had really slow left to right ball. The right centre and wingers hardly ever get it. The only width they ever played with was when Cooke would play his trade mark long ball to Yeaman/Raynor. Not much going on in the other direction.

No Scrum Half and crap passing technique.

What happens if the scrum half can only pass right to left?

That would be covered under crap passing technique.

Any professional should be able to pass both ways and if not should be practicing it until he can.

Plenty dont though.......Cooke wasnt a great left to right passer.

Richard Horne`s distribution on the right hand side has been woeful.
Yesterday all he wanted to do was his trademark dip of the shoulder and go.
Brilliant when it comes off but stifling any movement of the ball down the right.

I know it’s not a ‘fashionable’ opinion but I thought Hall was the worst of a poor back three.

He doesn’t look comfortable at all and IMO he lacks bottle. Having got used to Briscoe (Shaun) and Tony putting their bodies on the line it is very apparent Hall isn’t as willing to do so. He dangles his arms out when taking high balls, he stops running before he reaches the defensive line and he takes his eye off the ball when supporting others – things you couldn’t associate with the Briscoe and Tony.

I had to laugh when Calderwood produced a quick PTB which Hall knocked on and some numpty behind me said ‘Bloody Calderwood, playing the ball far too quickly!’

Which appears to me to be a major problem. It shows a lack of professional pride when professional players of any sport are not prepared to work on the weaknesses in their game. I dont really play any sort of rugby but I'm confident that if I spent fulltime hours practicing and training I'd be able to kick for touch further than any of our players seem capable and pass it faster and more accurately in both directions.

Apart from the 2times he did and set up trys.

Especially with Tickle only offering the run back inside as any option.

That is correct, but unfortunately Salford spent large chunks of the game camped on our try line as a result of his errors.

Eh?....can think of 1 mistake at the ptb and that was it.

Not particularly defending Hall here but the reason they had so much field position was no one in the defensive line (which excludes Hall) could be d/bothered/give a tuppeny to move off said line and aggressively tackle their opposition.

calders nearly cost us another try when he thought the ball was going to go into touch and the salford winger over run it and calders mopped up that was sooo lucky it was untrue!! he had a shocker for me he got the ball from a salford kick and ran it in very hard and fast until he reached the salford defender then just stopped to a halt and fell to the floor!!

Yes but he didnt did he.....how about our other winger costing us a try.......nobody has mentioned that.

I have. Seems to have been largely overlooked though.

Total . The kick, a very good one and far better than anything we produced, stopped just before the touchline. Calderwood dealt with it perfectly and avoided being slammed into touch which was no mean feat. Had it been Briscoe would you be saying the same ? No thought not.

Completely agreed....he gave it every chance to reach touch, and made the decision to collect at exactly the right time.

I read your post on it.........dont get me wrong,Briscoe is going to be very good but he is making mistakes and costing us trys...but nobody will hear a bad word against him.