We need to make a call on the halves. 


Lino is so inconsistent it’s unreal. 


Trueman is class but permanently injured.


The way I see it we have 3 specialist 7’s at the club in Russell, Lino and Lawford.


We have Trueman who is a 6 that can play 7 and we have Max who is a 1 that can fill in at 6.


The gap in the squad is a specialist 6.


Contracts etc will dictate what happens however in a perfect world if we could unload Russell (a signing I never understood) and recruit a 6 we are so much more balanced. 


Ideal world for next year Trueman 7 with Lino backup and a genuine 6 in the squad. 


With a genuine 6 today we are out of site at half time and more than likely turn a few of those narrow losses we have had this year into  wins. 

All academic really as I see it, as you say the worst 40 mins imaginable not helped by the referee on our part although I'm sure he reffed it properly in his mind and if the last try had been disallowed we were in no condition to go upfield for a golden point, as you say on to shudds for a bit of redemption.

Just watched last Hull try and how he could have Sent it up as a try is baffling.If it had gone up as a no try it would not have been given You could not see the ball .Any body understand what happened with the vido challenge in the second half .I through it was our ball but the ref gave them a free kick..Not blaming ref for a very poor display ,But shows  what damage a 50 /50 call can do

I think that Wakey challenged something, a call of a strip perhaps, which was overturned but in reviewing they spotted at high tackle so it was a successful challenge but still a penalty to Hull.That's just what I surmise happened but I was at the ground and haven't watched the game on TV so I may well be wrong.

If your on about Walmsley. Yes, the ref got the stripping penalty wrong. But Walmsley didn’t hit high I didn’t think. He didn’t hit the chin or head at all and his hand got players shoulder. If I recall the Hull crowd appeared to win that one. Much like the Cust one, that wasn’t high either. You see many arms round shoulders and across collar bone area etc as just regular tackles game in game out. If they were both high and there’s consistency we are back to that silly season where we were seeing countless high penalties last season that quickly got binned off. 

The thing that irks me is when an actual arm to side of face hits Rourke and the VR says clearly there’s head contact.


He then says he got shoulder too so it’s ‘incidental’ and waves play on… I thought head contact with an arm was a straight penalty regardless.


We saw what appeared imo the rules applied differently in the same game. Shouldn’t happen imo. 

I was at the game as well ,enjoyed having the choice to stand up,but was nice to sit in the seat when I needed a rest With all the rails been on every row of seats made it a lot better for a old grumpy man like me to climb the steps to get the top  . Got to give the fans credit they made plenty of noise .Were as the idea of taking of one shoe and waving it in the air  come from .Got to admit enjoyed the night not disappointed at least we were in the game.Did sneak out with 2 minutes left ,no queuing in the car park got back home in about 45 mins