green had a good game tonight, just needs a long run injury free, Thompson had his best game for ages, but he does that 1 good game then 5 average, fash was outstanding and turgut ran well, also griffen made good yards when he came on, all in all really good stuff from all the boys,

Excellent team performance tonight. Special mentions to Connor and Fonua who were oustanding. Both half backs very good too.

Very pleasing to be top albeit for 24 hours mid way before the split. We look on course for the top four and we haven't peaked yet.

Ellis and Houghton should be back next week for an important game at Widnes.

Green. Makes more metres a carry than all our props. By lots. Regular

Something like that...

My criticism of Green has always been that I'd like to see him up his workload a bit, but I dont know how anyone can question his yardage or impact. Always makes metres, every time.

Few on here reckoned Connor was a pointless signing. That was a performance showcased a lot of his skills. Got great hands. Tough. Aggressive and has some flair. Him and Fonua been awesome last 2games

Ha.

Tbf I was concerned about how little we had on the bench but they all stood up well and it wasnt even close to being a factor in the end. How many minutes did Fash play btw? He was everywhere and never seemed to be off the pitch from 20 minutes onwards.

Love to be wrong when so many positives tonight

wasnt expecting that result an performance tonight! fantastic result considering who we had on the bench

even thought childs let the game flow too for once

The never say die attitude in defence has returned.
Thought we were going to be in for a long night when I saw the teams. Also thought last Sunday may have caught up with us. Never saw that result coming!
Connor and Fonua were absolutely superb. Fash and Turgut really look the part as well. Credit to Radford on how he's brought the young players through and developed them in the right way.

It feels as though we're building something special here. It feels very different to other false dawns we've witnessed in the past. The way the fans are reacting to the players, the spirit that's been instilled in the playing group. Good things are happening.

Big credit to the club as well for the last few weeks. Hull and Proud week was superb. The Jack Harrison week has been respectful and moving.
Proud of the club as a whole. All class.

Though to a degree some of the forced rests are for discipline it looks like the penny has well and truly dropped for LR. He still couldn't see last season that he needed to bring in the younger squad members mid and latter part of the season even despite the Warrington Easter win. Pressure to keep winning, win some silverware and using your senior players (who stayed uninjured) plus inexperience on his part meant that didn't happen, that he chucked loads of 'kids' in pre-season was an indicator that the penny had dropped.
hull always produce forwards, we've never been short of home grown talent in that dept, it's generally in the backs to a degree where we've lacked home-grown at times, there's only Shaul at FB out of 7, most definiely our ability to produce quality half-backs regularly has being a problem for many, many years.
Tommy Lee could have been, IF Cooke had stayed we'd have been in a better position because we were trying to fill his shoes for best part of a decade with imports in the search for success and thus youngsters don't get games to prove themselves or are discarded/leave because they simply won't get a chance other than to cover injury when all the square pegs have run out. It's a circular and indeed cyclical problem.
it's going to take some more years now I feel for the academy to produce backs that will get a chance, we've lost plenty recently so not sure where the next lad is going to come from that will get given a shot. Logan did but was dropped in favour of yeaman, we lost Crooks and Lineham and Lancaster has also gone by the way-side with Dean & Tyson Wilson, possibly could lose JA too which I think would be a mistake not to keep him and use him as a 13

However the young forwards in Fash, Matongo, Litten, Turgut and others can start to cement 1st XVII places, a forward line including rotations of Hadley, Green, Bowden, Watts, Taylor, Fash, Litten, Turgut, Downs, Matongo and possibly JA would be phenominal in terms of hull grown players.

After a good start I thought we were gonna get another mullering when Westerman strolled in for their second after Sika's binning.
Here we go again!!!
Got the penalty close to their line and wasn't happy about us taking the two, was thinking, we'll need more than a bloody four point lead against these lot in the second half.
Fine lines, we get away with one straight after the break and never look back keeping them scoreless whilst taking our chances.
Sneyd's 40-20 ability is invaluable.
Great strength and determination from Mahe and Albert for their tries.
Fash, Turgut and Downs all getting game time.

Manchester under the bright lights again.
We couldn't, could we?

It was a good win in the circumstances. I thought fonua and connor were excellent, sneyd kicked the best he has for some time and fash was like a man possessed. green also stood up well IMO and had probably his most effective game this season, maybe ever - he really upped his workrate last night with more game time.

manu was stupid with the chicken wing and i expect to lose him for 3 or 4 games now. Both he and mini worked hard but they're not getting good ball so struggling a bit with ball in hand.

Our goal line defence has been good the last 2 weeks but we're still missing far too many tackles in other parts of the field. This needs sorting but it was pleasing that the ball retention was significantly better last night and we gave away far fewer penalties until that last 15 minutes or so when I think we were happy to concede them to take the sting out of wire.

child was less pedantic than usual but completely failed to police the 10m at the PTB meaning wire were on us before we'd even played the ball for 1/2 the game.

Still a good win against a near full strength wire coming into the game with 4 wins on the bounce.

Sort out our defence, keep the errors and penalties low and we will be a very tough side to beat this season

It's child ffs

Who cares ffs

I was dubious myself before kick off. They stood up well. Very impressive.

Great to see Fashy playing well never takes a backward step, Turgut getting better by the game, good too see Downs getting some minutes too.

What about fonuas try saving tackle on lineham,smacked him right into touch,when he thought he as goin to score.

Taking the 2 was a no brainer. Those points are a gift for snyed. I thought game would be alot closer and they would be invaluable but end of the day it gave us a breather as I think we had been defending abit at the time irc. Ball back keeps them starved of possession and we go again. Leeds were masters of this with sinfield were in 10 mins you could go from being in a tight game to couple of trys behind and just unable to get your hands on the ball. Our game management is another level to 2/3 seasons ago

In hindsight, yep.
All turned out spiffing anyway.

Great display . Desire and commitment ,and scored some great tries .
The young lads really stood up and did themselves proud.

That was brilliant



Feel sorry for Jack Hughes, getting an absolute bell ringer off the leagues scrawniest half back must be embarrassing.



Thought our discipline around the ruck was better than it has been, and wasn't happy about Sika going off but see why now I've watched it back. Think the booing was more at Atkins absolutely milking it. There was a spell late on where we got scrappy again and we were punished for it but absorbed everything they threw at us.

As for Wire, I'd be worried if I was one of their fans. Agar's Plan B 5 drive rugby, baffling and unbalanced interchanges, and players going completely missing. Did Westerman go off injured after his try? And I didn't realise Ashton Sims was playing until about the 70th.

Congratulations Mosher lad !!
Not normally superstitious, but think we should
swap seats at the Grand Final pal.

HDM:
"Mahe Fonua with 253 metres, five tackle busts, three offloads, one try and an assist last night for Hull FC against Warrington. #beastmode"

Mahe Fonua last night:

1 try, 1 try assist, 2 clean breaks, 5 tackle busts, 23 carries, 253 metres, average gain 11 metres.

Not a bad night at the office.