Re: Hull FC Match Thread - Saints 12 v 19 Hull FC : Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:26 pm  

Th'ump wrote:

Season over, chaps. We'll finish 3rd or 4th (thus robbing me of a chunky winning bet - b*stards) and do little or nothing in the play off.

There's no rugby brain in that team to make us tick. Turner & Biscuit Boy as halves? FFS. Getting turned over by a Dull team going through the motions with nothing to play for is just the start. We could well beat Wakey, but Leeds & Wire will spank us and probably Hudds, too.

Another season ruined by injuries to key players. But then, going into yet another season without two quality half backs is asking for trouble.

It ain't over til the fat lady sings, but we very rapidly are needing a cunning plan...

Re: Hull FC Match Thread - Saints 12 v 19 Hull FC : Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:31 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

The feedback I got was: turner wasn't great, but at least you noticed him, he was trying things that might with a few weeks practice come off. Wheeler could of been off the pitch and you wouldn't have noticed him.

The other massive thing was the lack of a kicking game ... All roads lead to Hewitt...

Hewitt isn't ready. We can't risk ruining a young kids career by throwing him because we haven't got a halfback.

Maybe if we actually signed stand off to play with Walsh we'd still have at least one halfback available. We all knew that if Walsh got hurt we was back to last season all over again.

Re: Hull FC Match Thread - Saints 12 v 19 Hull FC : Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:32 pm  

Tonight was another embarassment. Did anyone really expect a result tonight? I was cringing when Dave Lyon was choosing our player of the year and suggesting we'd run all over Hull in the second half once their heads went down. Then it sounded like we barely got out of our half in the second 40 and were a comfortable second to a Hull side that was in a terrible run of form.

The fact we're top of the league at this stage of the season is simply ridiculous. How have we done that when we've been terrible for most of the season? I can't see that side winning another game.

Where was McDonnell tonight? I didn't hear his name once, was he not picked? They were going on about how we had little attacking threat, but is it any wonder with Turner and Wheeler in the halves and Wellens at fullback? With those three in the key attacking positions, it's a wonder we scored at all.

They had GOT to do something different, at least attempt to end the season respectably. Bring Swift back in FFS, bring someone in to play 6 and get the pack moving. How can the pack can go from dominating Widnes to being destroyed by Hull FC?

Re: Hull FC Match Thread - Saints 12 v 19 Hull FC : Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:33 pm  

I've got a piece of cheese to hang off the end of my nose.

Who knows maybe Brown will roll the dice and see what hewitt can do next week.

Or Swift. We are looking for triangles to fit into circles. But what else can we do.

Re: Hull FC Match Thread - Saints 12 v 19 Hull FC : Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:40 pm  

St pete wrote:

Hewitt isn't ready. We can't risk ruining a young kids career by throwing him because we haven't got a halfback.

Maybe if we actually signed stand off to play with Walsh we'd still have at least one halfback available. We all knew that if Walsh got hurt we was back to last season all over again.

We had one: hohaia. What you mean to say is we needed to sign someone to play backup for us and filling in any gaps we needed plugged. Someone whose young and a natural 7. Say someone who was on loan with us last year

Hewitt may not be ready, but it makes more sense than calling for charnock. Hulls standoff was a 17 year old kid tonight, good enough their old enough and all that...

Re: Hull FC Match Thread - Saints 12 v 19 Hull FC : Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:40 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

The feedback I got was: turner wasn't great, but at least you noticed him, he was trying things that might with a few weeks practice come off. Wheeler could of been off the pitch and you wouldn't have noticed him.

That's exactly what I saw against Widnes when Walsh went off. Turner was working his balls off to get the game going and Wheeler was doing nothing except pass the ball on.

If Wheeler was the same this week then I'd drop Wheeler, stick Wello in the halves with Turner, hope that Flanagan is fit (he took a bang to the head) as he has shown a bit of attacking flair lately, and put McDonnell at fullback because we are desperate for attacking threats. Based on the radio commentary tonight, I don't care about Swift's defence, we need his kick returns, his pace and his step on the wing. And if Brown shows favouritism for his Yorkshire lad, hardworking though he may be, he should be kicked up the backside.

The other massive thing was the lack of a kicking game ... All roads lead to Hewitt...

According to the Wish FM commentator, the more Turner kicked the better he kicked, so maybe all he needs is some practice. Will he get any? Or are Saints going to have loads of time off now that they have a break?

Re: Hull FC Match Thread - Saints 12 v 19 Hull FC : Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:41 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

We had one: hohaia. What you mean to say is we needed to sign someone to play backup for us and filling in any gaps we needed plugged. Someone whose young and a natural 7. Say someone who was on loan with us last year .

Or someone we loaned out and who is now having a stormer in a relegated side!

Re: Hull FC Match Thread - Saints 12 v 19 Hull FC : Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:41 pm  

He may move Wello to the halves and play Shannon at full back which is another option we haven't tried yet.

Re: Hull FC Match Thread - Saints 12 v 19 Hull FC : Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:43 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

We had one: hohaia. What you mean to say is we needed to sign someone to play backup for us and filling in any gaps we needed plugged. Someone whose young and a natural 7. Say someone who was on loan with us last year

Hewitt may not be ready, but it makes more sense than calling for charnock. Hulls standoff was a 17 year old kid tonight, good enough their old enough and all that...

I'm saying, long before a ball was even kicked this year, we was saying we need another halfback and if Walsh gets hurt then we in deep s*it.

Same old story, we ain't got even the two halves that clubs have. If we are being totally honest, we only have Walsh who is a real halfback with a rugby brain.

Re: Hull FC Match Thread - Saints 12 v 19 Hull FC : Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:44 pm  

Agent Mulder wrote:

He may move Wello to the halves and play Shannon at full back which is another option we haven't tried yet.

I cringe at the thought of Wello in the halves but we need some attacking potency. I think we would have gone all night without a third try, although keeping hold of the ball and not giving away penalties might have helped our cause somewhat.