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What is the worst game you've ever been to?
Ant replied to The Hallucinating Goose's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
As daz39 said, too many to pick from for a Huddersfield fan watching for 40+ years - the 80s were grim in many ways. First go on SL I remember a game at home v London, it was a night game, pouring rain, freezing and two awful teams playing awful rugby - I was definitely wondering what I was doing with my time then, worse than some of the drubbings we took those season (no central funding, Schofield as coach then the M word...) -
How can Hull FC be getting so much wrong?
Ant replied to Roy Haggerty's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Is that not arguably because 1. Wigan hoover up all the local talent so have the biggest range to generate those top players. 2. Hull don't have an academy so they can't produce top players? It takes years for academies to produce consistently good results and that means funding and patience, Hull seem to lack both -
Jeez your not wrong. The Facebook comments are scandalous, absolutely boss eyed nonsense. The fact Hull scored will be the point of criticism, and not the champagne stuff we scored at times. As for our crowd - sure, the cup isn't well supported but 2pm on a Saturday is awful, frankly. Purely anecdotal but because of the timing my group of 7 was reduced to 2. Play that game on Sunday or Friday night, and the crowd is twice the size - and as the game wasn't on TV I am scratching my head as to why that time and date was picked.
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Regarding Hulls current struggles, a bad season can impact a club for years, a bad coaching appointment can do the same As a Giants fan, the appointment of Rick Stone as coach (combined with the truly appalling 888 league) set us back a decade imo. From league leaders, playoff semis, and genuinely looking like contenders we spent near a decade struggling again - so I feel sorry for Hull fans having seen my own club do this (and then some). At the game yesterday, you could see the kernel of something at Hull, Tony Smiths touch was in the good things they did, but it takes time. I'd say unlike the Giants who had to scramble to fix things in the 888 era, Hull should at least be fairly comfortable that they'll be in SL next season. Suck it up now, let Tony Smith work and I'm sure it'll come good - oh and a few bad injuries to key players will wreck any clubs season, no matter what (trust me, that's one major issue the Giants were poor last year!) Anyway, COYG, let's win a final for once eh...
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Having just watched this game now, the only blame for Leigh losing falls firmly on Leigh themselves - nothing more. Leeds very often get some appalling refereeing go their way, but not so much this game - this was all down to Leigh losing their composure when Leeds came back at them. Another striking feature is that Leigh fans really don't seem to know the rules (not so different to the South stand ) kendall did a good job in this game imo.
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I think they are both organising halves, and that's why we lack Edge in the red zone Tui at 6 Connor at 1 Makes a massive difference to our attack. As for people saying the Giants are poor, on that showing they won't be contenders, but they are WAY better than that showing, and Saints were flawless (despite the lack of red card) - not many teams would have a different outcome We've got a ridiculously tough opening month, but won away at Leigh in week one, someone none of the pundits thought we'd manage