Gotta hope Hardaker is just a slight knock that realistically he could play through but the club just want to give him an extra week. Another player who fans didn't really want, me included, but you can see an improvement when he plays. Missing him, Barron and Cartwright from the same edge is such a huge blow.

Aaron Bower: Hull FC have won more Super League games in six matches this season (4) than they did in their previous 36 matches spanning two seasons (3). Some start from John Cartwright

Would it be better to play Moy at 6 and Rapana at fullback? Moy is a bit suspect under the high balls and rovers could exploit this next week 

Any team would just pick Moy out. Imagine Rovers edges running at him all game, he'd get mullered 

Trump in power.
War in the Ukraine.
Genocide in Palestine.
The Labour Party mascarading as socialists.
The world has gone mad, but Hull FC keep winning.
Get in there brothers & sisters.

As others have said, it's a sign of how much progress has been made in such a short space of time that by the end of last night's game there was a slight air of deflated disappointment around the faithful. The second half became very scratchy and disjointed with all the interruptions and enforced changes happening.


But, we've now won five away games on the bounce having previously gone 18 months without so much as a sniff of one. We never seriously looked like losing last night, but our inability to not kick on in that second half did lead to the air of frustration around the place, which probably is how the likes of JC and Sezer felt about the outcome.


Next Saturday is clearly going to be a different ball game, and I do worry that we may find ourselves pinned back in our half for prolonged periods, unable to make metres against rovers stifling defence, but 9pts from a possible 12 is way above anything I thought we would come out of from the opening six games. Certainly, if we have learnt anything from these opening matches it's that this side will dig in and graft. It may not be very pretty at times but so far everyone has risen to each challenge set in front of them. Think we're going to need a good deal more of that attitude (in spades) next Saturday if we are to derail their hopes and dreams.


Two more points on the tally cementing our place inside the top-four! Who would have thought it 6/7 weeks ago? Bring on the next (big) challenge. We have hope and belief in ourselves once more, and that alone is significant progress on recent years.