Some superb (not "alright") attacking rugby tonight like we haven't seen for decades. Excellent support play and deft passing/off-loads. First game of the season and looking very promising. So they went off the boil, big deal, they'd already got it in the bag and were two interchanges down. Yes, they could have managed it better than they did in the last 20 minutes and I'm sure they and Radford are as disappointed as we were with that but, boy, that was exhilarating at times.
If you were unable to make it to the game tonight, please make sure you watch the highlights: you're in for a treat.
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Tarquin Fuego wrote:Watching Dragons and Wigan. Hull will need to play for 80 mins in both games !!
What a terrible pitch which produced an inevitable errorthon. The Dragons stood up well defensively though and will give Hull a real go in France next Saturday.
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Staffs FC wrote:Easy win. Last 15 mins a bit sloppy but in general we were dominant in all areas. Good start hopefully any knocks not too bad. Thought Green and Bowden were as good if not better than the starting props which is encouraging.
yeah i would agree with this. i expected a bit of a dip with these 2 on but it never really happened. very encouraging
Great result, wasn't able to listen but can't wait for the upload of the full match. Glad Bowden has proved a few doubters wrong, he looked in great nick in the KR friendly. Still need to be looking at the concentration levels though as we won't be getting away with that at Catalans or any top 8 opposition which imho Salford aren't. Can't wait for the 25th now.
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downtheante wrote:Some superb (not "alright") attacking rugby tonight like we haven't seen for decades. Excellent support play and deft passing/off-loads. First game of the season and looking very promising. So they went off the boil, big deal, they'd already got it in the bag and were two interchanges down. Yes, they could have managed it better than they did in the last 20 minutes and I'm sure they and Radford are as disappointed as we were with that but, boy, that was exhilarating at times.
If you were unable to make it to the game tonight, please make sure you watch the highlights: you're in for a treat.
Some superb stuff for sure, and we looked amazing. However, we cannot let slip and we did, i know the match was won but to lose 10.0 with them a man down is not acceptable. I dont want to be critical as we were really impressive, but complacency needs nipping in the bud now. The crowd died down and it ended quietly.
Sebasteeno wrote:Not a bad game i thought. Salford didnt get a look in for the middle 40 when we scored our points then took our foot off the gas which sort of slightly soured the end.
Hightlights were the forwards, Thompson went well i thought but im a little concerned about the Logan/Fonua side which looked rather suspect defensively
Maybe the reason Radford drafted Yeaman into the 19,was still thinking about possibly changing Logan. If thats the case would rather see Michaels on the wing with Fonua at centre.Whatever you think of Michaels his defence is good.
Joined: Jul 08 2006 Posts: 2059 Location: West Hull
Looks like I was watchingg a different game Manu outstanding so aggressive fights for every blade of grass in every tackle really laid the platform in the first half think we really missed him in that last quarter he was very close to been MOM can not argue with Danny he played big minutes and was excellent Manu off load to Logan worth the entrance fee class player reall players player tough as f>>k
Great first hour but not so good in the last 20, due in part to the lack of back row interchanges - pritchard was knackered and really needed to be off the field which left our left edge looking a bot soft defensively. Also thought we really lacked a bit of leadership in that last 20 and gave the ball away too easily, however the game was won so it's not fair to be too critical.
Manu was a beast in attack and defence and no coincidence that we were better with him on the field - hopefully it wasn't anything serious. Was minichello injured? He hardly seemed to get any game time.
Still some work to do on our edge defence but good signs with ball in hand and I'm keen to see how we do against a better team next week
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