Wellsy4HullFC

I'm hearing similar. Issues around discipline of the group and hanging his hat on certain recruitment/retention choices that have bit him. Hearing other coaches aren't happy either. All rumours. But must be some truth somewhere because they wouldn't just bin him for nothing. The fans love him because he's honest and to the point, as well as passionate and clearly cares about the group. We haven't had that in a while.

This must be the most disastrous season in the history in the second tier. Can't NWC set up an arrangement with a SL club in a similar way there is between York and Newcastle?

Hopefully a change of environment will do him good. If not, you can have him back. Talented lad. But like said, poor attitude.

We've gone back into pins on a map fantasy pipedream stuff. If you just shove loads of money into 6 French clubs in hope a competitive and interesting league would take hold, half of those clubs will die within a couple of years. Incremental additions into a larger SL with savvy fixture schedules would do far more with far less.

Pretty much what I said above. I don't understand the mindset here. It's like poisoning the well.

I just don't get what the club are thinking here. He went had a clean slate with a new board to build a strong reputation and trust with future staff, and we've thrown that away with what looks like behind the scenes deals to get someone else in at the very first opportunity. I think McNamara is going to have a tough job on his hands building the moral of the squad up after this.

I'm not impressed with how this is turning out. I like Cartwright. I don't understand how such a rash decision has been made. There's surely more to this than has been made out so far.

Well they've not given us much time to digest this have they! Sad Cartwright is leaving. Has done a great job. Happy McNamara is coming. Home town coach. Never dull in Hull!

Doesn't look that way. Thought they'd have brought a sizeable contingent for effectively their only on the road game within range.

Getting absolutely robbed Toulouse here.

His fingers are clearly bending from the ball though?

Do I think we'd have won? Probably not. But it robs us of positive momentum and the hand looks completely different because it is. It was a shocking decision and one they had all the time in the world to make. Absolute hammer blow in the context of the game. Lisone should have stayed down earlier in the game also. That was dirty from Minchella and should have been carded. Can only expect so much with the troops we've got out, but what we did I was okay with. We desperately need forwards.

The good thing for me is that your team only consists of 2 overseas players. A lot of those players were from the same era though so it makes you wonder what's gone wrong since then in terms of development. That Sky pick is a joke though. It looks like it was picked by a Leeds fan.

Well we made hard work of that. Looked great for the first 30 minutes. Then we were doing some great plays that just weren't sticking. Then Catalans finally started clicking and we were gassed.

Reckon they could have squeezed in 6 more converted tries?...