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

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.

I turned off at HT and went on Red Vee to say that Wigan were winning the lot again and that HKR are the only team that can get close to them. Obviously that aged well. 


I've said before that I think the pitch will be a huge problem to Wigan and I stand by that. There seemed to be sand in a lot of places and it is not conducive to the style of rugby you play. It makes you wonder if it has impacted on Field doing his hamstring. When you played in Vegas on that 3G style pitch it was like watching it on fast forward. 

I think its the word nestled inside the name that is causing the issue icon_smile.gif

Pretty woeful performance in that second half. Peet shouldn't have left Keighran out there. He should of taken him off at half time, played Leeming at 6. I think that would of given Farrell and Eckersley/Marshall (i think he switched Marshall and Eckersley round towards the end) more confidence on their inside shoulder.


The most dissapointing part of the second half was Smith's performance. He should of took that game by the scruff of the neck and killed it with his kicking game. For some reason, we just kept trying to outscore them rather than control the game and for me that has to be Smith's responsiblity when we've lost our fullback, have an injured stand off and then lost Ellis too.


It was a good game in the end, credit to Hull who scored some great tries. Unfortunately, we cant win them all.

They all take blame for me but we can let them off with a bad day at the office, after they've had so many good ones in the last couple of years. It will be a lesson in always respecting the game and the opposition because I didn't feel we did that at times. He was out there on one leg, when maybe he shouldn't have been but at one point, with about 10-15 minutes left Keighran threw a ridiculous inside ball on tackle 2, which we lost, when we had an 8 point lead and could easily have managed the game out to a win, had we kept the ball up their end of the field. It all just felt a bit like they were thinking 'it's only Hull' until they got within a couple of points and then it was panic mode. It reminded me of the England Vs Samoa games in the World Cup. Mullered them one week and a few weeks later, the attitude is off and when you try and wake up, you're in panic mode and keep making bad decisions.