HULL

stuey

No Miler in the squad. McShane at half-back?.

Hepworth

It’s a squad with a lot of options. Macca in the halves with Robb and Horne covering at hooker would be one,Westy could go back to 13 with the inclusion of Namo and Kibula, plenty of full back options mean we could even put Hoy in the halves. Honestly not sure what Lingard will do, I’m sure he’ll know if any of the squad aren’t quite ready yet. Seen plenty bemoaning Richardsons loan move, but for me I don’t see any areas he’d improve us.

RaoulDuke

Qereqere for senior, macca in the halves.

Tbh, macca, horne and robb deserve a place in the squad.

Maturecasfan

Nice win.
But that last 15/20 mins we were awful.
According to lingard, ¾ were suffering with sickness, so I suppose they did well to even get a game never mind play most of it.

TheFirm

I’m taking that win every day of the week. It was far from perfect but there are enough green shoots there to make me think that we are finally on an upward curve.

Big screen looked smart as well.

Hepworth

Had to rely on the Radio Leeds commentary but it sounded like a step in the right direction. Happy to excuse us running out of gas late on given Lingards post match comments,if you excuse the Saints game when we were awful,we showed late on at Leigh our conditioning isn’t far off.Putt was aggressive when he came on and commentators seemed impressed with Milnes throughout. Three very poor errors gifted Hull tries, without them they wouldn’t have got close.

Maturecasfan

Yep, we gifted hull tries with a cherry on top.
Really need to be more street wise in certain areas.
The game should have been over at half time.
Just glad we scored a couple of tries first that second half.
I feel if hull had brought it back to 18 16 we would be in trouble.
They were the better team last 20 mins in control.
A bug bare through the game especially second half, our line speed was awful, the amount of space and yardage we gave them was criminal.
Hence they were making 60/70/8 meters every set.

stuey

Our discipline was spot on. Not a single penalty given away and just 1 “6 again”.

Maturecasfan

stuey

Yep, good discipline all over the field.
Not sure how we didn’t get any 6 again, hull were lying on and trying to slow us down nearly all game.

Also how the heck did the hull player stay on the field after that tackle on watts.
The ref bottled in imo. Let’s see what the discipline say about it.

Hepworth

Just seen a replay of the game, Namo certainly put himself about a bit when he came on,and I’m told Kibula was decent in the reserves against Saints. Offers some hope on the prop front, be interested to see how Hindmarsh gets on today against Wakey, he’s in the Haven squad and be a good test if he gets some minutes, he needs to show something. I see Leigh are looking to offload Nabukuwai to free up space and Lingard said we were interested earlier in the season but I think Hoy has filled the quota spot we have. Failing that Titus Gwaze still doing ok at Sheffield.

RaoulDuke

We gifted Hull their first 2 tries. We would have been clear and game over at halftime if not did them.

Lost watts one minute into the second half and then westy for a spell in the second half. That doesn’t leave us with many senior players on the pitch. They rallied but we got there.

A wins a win. With players due back and players getting valuable gametime away from the club, things don’t seem too bad.

Hepworth

RaoulDuke That’s a fair assessment and Lingards post match comments were realistic in where we are at the moment. He said at the start of the season the squad shouldn’t be judged until we’d had ten games or so to gel. Suspensions and injuries maybe delayed that somewhat, so now we’re twelve games in and for me we have improved and the board acted appropriately and quickly when we needed new blood, Hoy and the Seniors have improved the squad and there have been signs a couple of players out on loan may bring something to the party yet. So all in all I’m reasonably happy, on my wish list would be an extension for Horne and Hoy,though outside factors may preclude the latter and some news on recruitment for next year but I think I’m trusting enough to be patient.

Maturecasfan

Hepworth

Johnstone as been injury free for the past couple of year, bar ½ HIA’s.
Mcmeeken still playing well. Catalans wanted to keep both.

I agree wakey have an aging squad, and do indeed need 8/9 more players.
I think the coach as a draw on some players, though like at cas, he doesn’t seem to be bringing younger players through.
Time will tell.

Hepworth

Edit to that, just seen a quote from Danny Wilson re Hoy on TRL hopefully our efforts with Hoy are rewarded.

Maturecasfan

Hepworth

Trying to tie him down, but coming up a bit short in his worth.
Get your hand in your pockets jepson/fulton

Hepworth

Problem being Horne and Hoy with their performances are now attracting outside interest, competition will up the ante, but I agree we need to loosen the purse strings.

RaoulDuke

Horne has another year in our favour. Tie him down.

Hoy is the fullback we’ve been looking form sign him up.

FlatCapper

Hoy will be a difficult one to hold on to. It’s easy to say pay a bit more to keep him but we have no idea what he wants and he may jut ask for a tad too much, simply because of who we are.

I can only hope we do as much as we realistically can to hold onto him.

Maturecasfan

FlatCapper

Wakey sniffing around apparently.
When he sees their recruitment to ours.
Mcmeeken
Johnstone, it’s a no brainer.

RaoulDuke

Maturecasfan they’ve signed 2 players. One whose had injury after injury and one we wanted rid of both will be on a lump to move from France.

They have the halfbacks of gale, lino and Kay. Give or take, their team is the same that got relegated.

They need another 8 or 9 just to stay off bottom. If they get the injuries Cas and Leeds have, they’ll be lucky to win a game or two.

Ripping through a part time division with full time players doesn’t make me think they’ll do a leigh.

Hepworth

There may be issues other than monetary ones in getting Hoy to sign, little we can do if that’s the case,but if what we’re reading is right and it is just the financials and he’s not asking silly money,let’s get him on board. Makes sense on the field and off it sends a message to the fans we need to come through the turnstiles to keep that attendance average up. Let’s show we’re prepared to compete for quality,Jepson only quoted yesterday as wanting to return the feel good factor to the club,what better way.