Pre-match, I think most of us were thinking along the lines of 'What a shame, the team is finally starting to gel and now we have to start from square one with a totally different starting 17'. Not sure how the 'team ethic' transferred so seamlessly to last night's 17 but it did. It's the sort of thing we 'expect' from Saints, probably Wigan and even Leeds a few years ago, that they can plug in three or four ( or even more ) fringe and junior players into the side when injury or suspensions take regulars out, and still look like the same team on the park. A long way to go before we can permanently say the same for Wire, but let's enjoy last night for what it was, quite outstanding.

Thinking about ht last night I think curry and king in the second row made us a lot more dynamic. I like Hughes and jason Clark but they're a little one dimensional at times respecting the ball a bit too much. I think Kings future could be in the second row really or maybe at LF. I like him at centre but he makes a brilliant second row.

Also everyone just knuckled down last night and was totally focused on the job in hand, does hills griping with the ref put us on the back foot? Does it disrupt our flow and annoy referees in to penalising us? Thaler in particular seems to get wound up by him and we got a lot more out of him last night. Don't get me wrong I want Hill back in the team but please just knuckle down and do what Cooper did last night. In all fairness he has been recently but I much prefer to see the team focused like that. Absolutely magnificent last night. Price will have a lot of headaches in a few weeks.

I like the cut of your jib, sir, for those first couple of sentences. Hughes and Clark are too [ilow risk/NRL style players[/i.
Currie is back to his best.

His wife is due to have their daughter like...now. if Sita can have couple weeks off Daryl should be able to. I suspect Daryl will be very professional and have as little off as needed all being well that is.

From a Hull fan I just want to say well done, the club could have postponed but saw the bigger picture and Price had faith in his squad, which is alot better than ours as your fringe players stood up and bullied our pack. Good luck for the rest of the season.

Thanks Dave, very gracious. I as well as many others feared the worst when I saw our 17 but what a performance from our boys as you say.

Hope your new coach can sort you out, Hull is a great club and deserves better