Despite his age and not having played for two years he would have improved your team on Sunday. That must say something about your much vaunted fringe players. Even Radford expressed his disappointment at their performance.

most of us and radford probably know the youngsters are far from ready for superleague!

put them in with first team players they can hold their own, like against warrington last easter monday and wigan in the super 8s in 2015!

i noticed rovers didnt attack the kelly, carlos and michaels side of the pitch much in the first half, they targetted our weaker centre and winger! certainly setting high targets and testing themselves there!

Hardly testing themselves for the season ahead!!

I'm comfortable with the result, in some respects there's a lot more pressure on the youngsters as it's one of the few early season opportunities to show how they can perform but when you have much superior opposition against you it isn't easy to play your natural game, less so when you have players on and off the field and also when there's a fair few of them together a reasonable standard below the opposition
You put a couple of these lads in with the backbone of the 1st XVII and they are much more likely to perform to a higher std, there'd be much more on field direction, the backbone of the team will have played with each other a lot so holes/errors that a relatively inexperienced team will make won't be made as often if at all and so individual players/youngsters in a senior side (hopefully) won't be as exposed which gives them a better chance of doing what they should be and are capable of.
A lot of it is down to the mental side of things and lack of senior playing experience, multiplied up by half your team and it shows up more overall.
Certainly hope Radford can feel comfortable with giving some of these lads a run and not too late in the season because it'll be extremely good fortune if we get as few injuries as last and because of other factors and his inexperience as a coach felt he couldn't rest players more often.

ATEOTD we'll see what happens first couple of Sl games and where we are at. Reproduce the Salford/Catalans performances of last year and any stress over how these early friendlies have gone will disappear in an instant.

Some scathing commentary on the Bradford situation being allowed to happen and the financial state of the Championship by Radford. Some decent points made. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/hull-fc- ... story.html

Some scathing commentary on the Bradford situation being allowed to happen and the financial state of the Championship by Radford. Some decent points made. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/hull-fc- ... story.html

They're back. Good news, maybe we'll dual reg with them. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/38616454

They're back. Good news, maybe we'll dual reg with them. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/38616454

I'd hope that we can do a deal with Bradford and help them out short term (and us) my loaning them 2/3 players, maybe the likes of Logan, Fash and Turgut.

Dave Woods just tweeted been told to expect "jaw-droppingly good" head coach appointment at Bradford in the next couple of days. Assuming it's not the rumoured Henry Paul then.

McNamara?

Whats Brian Mclennon up to these days? He'd be classed as a big name, super league and tri nations winner.