We lost that in the second half by playing some of the most dumb rugby we could, Smith lost the plot and seemed to want to try every fancy move and stupid play he could instead of playing calm and measured rugby. Farrell and Eckersley were turnstiles in defense and too many silly unforced errors from a lot of players. 


Hull upped the intesity and we couldn't live with it, from having the best meanest defense at the start of the season we looked totaly lost, yes we had some issues with injuries but too many players dropped off tackles or mis-read plays. Even late in the game against Warrington we started dropping off in defense and that continued here, a worrying trend late in games.


Peet has a lot of work to do during the week to get things back to how we were - we need to get back to basics and I suspect some players may have played themselves out of the first team unless we are short on players because there were some poor efforts at times.

I also thought the rule was that held was called as soon as a teammate of the attacker joined the tackle, but I haven't seen that called all year

Yes…as did Moy when he came on

A disappointing defeat but you can't win them all. There will be a few lessons in there for them, about making sure you don't presume a game is won when in a good lead and also for Peet in how you deal with the loss of a player like Field. Our game management was poor but so were our energy levels and enthusiasm at times. 


Fair play to Hull, they're turning a corner and I'm happy for their fans. 

Hull v HKR looks like the best final for "us neutrals"

I wasn't 100% sure so didn't want to guess, I thought they had played against our Academy a couple of years back and given them a hiding! Really good signs for Hull, great that they (and Moy) are getting their chance.