Dowes and Cusack would deffo have made more yards and tackles than King and Cordoba (who was very ordinary). Thackray/Lauaki would have provided more impact from the bench, Washbrook would have played LF and Yeaman would have played right centre. That would have given Hull more quality and better balance. Agar got his tactics almost spot on yesterday but didn't really have the players to execute them properly. They rightly spotted Welham,Newton and Webster in defence and their short kicking game was outstanding. with ball in hand they always looked like they could break Rovers down. Remember there was only 6 points in it and Hull had three tries disallowed, 2 correctly and 1 incorrectly imo. I have no doubt that had Hull been full strength they'd have won yesterday.

Yeah, fair play, I forgot about T.Briscoe - and Whiting didn't have his best game. Not saying Hull mightn't have won with a better set of props, either, just can't imagine where the extra 22 points would have come from.

And I had no doubt that had we had a hooker rotation, we'd have beaten [iany[/i side hull would have put out.

Rhys "the beast" was immense. However I thought both our backrowers were pretty poor. Newton combined some strong runs with some slack defence and a ridiculous offload that could have cost us. Special mention for Chev Walker to, who impressed me.

However, the fact that you have no doubt does not make it so. Cordoba was 'very ordinary', yet you compare him to Cusack, the player for whom the expression 'very ordinary' was invented.

Thought Lovegrove was outstanding in your forwards, but Galea looks exhausted. Unrecognisable from that stunning performance at Murrayfield.

Lets agree to disagree.



Rovers have been beaten many times this season WITH their hooking rotation so to say they would have beaten [iany[/i Hull side had they had that yesterday is a work of pure fiction.

Cusack though no world beater, is infinately better than Cordoba.

The 'forward' pass was a massive get out of jail card for Rovers, and I would/will be gutted when something similar happens to Rovers. Remember though that Hull scored one of their tries off the back of a strip that Newton recovered. We had the better of the ref's decisions, no doubt - but it wasn't all one way for 80 minutes.

I knew sticking up for Thaler would pay dividends one day.

Couldn't agree more. The one bright side to Briers golden point is we get a much needed week of.

Deary me. Do you really believe that or are you just trying to justify another poor performance from the great east hull pretenders?

Very good assessment, although I'm not sure about the bit where you've put agar and tactics in the same sentence