liam finn

[daytona]

Really don't get the Finn bashing at all. Look at his stats. One of the top tacklers in the team and plenty of try assists.WHen you are at the game and you watch the way he is constantly barking orders at his forwards and getting them running the right lines you realise he is the type of player we have been missing for years. Yes he was a bit off yesterday but he wasn't on his own. I would imagine if you asked any of our forwards privately which half back combo they prefer, they would pick Finn and Sneyd every time.

[I of the Tigers]

I'm with TheSheriff, castiger45678 & daytona ... stop the Finn bashing people, you can't have everything in a player & for me last night he particularly put in a hefty tackling stint which we should be applauding given 1. the poor cover at times alongside him & 2, the amount of ball Hull had in the first half due to our poor play & Childs' usual anti-Cas performance. Yes Ellis can come in against the likes of London but when push comes to shove in the games that matter & against the big boys, we need Liam's guile to orchestrate our movement. He's done it already this season on a few occasions & he'll do it again ... COYF

[HuddsTigers]

For anyone that cares

Finn made 30 tackles, 4 from marker and 2 missed. Three players missed more (Millo, Massey and Milner) whilst Dorn and Carvell also missed 2.

[mart0042]

With Finn slow to the tackle and Gibson needing gametime to sharpen up, we are going to be weaker on the right side. Hull proved that but when we got going we were good down that side. Gibson should get another go next week if he's going to play in the semi.

[KB80]

Think Finny was poor last night as were many. Although he's gone okay over course of season, I think his defence is better than most halfs to be honest, he organises us, his kicking game is either very good or poor (tends to be on cue or not). Tbh I'd have been very tempted to have given him that final conversion shot - sneyd was having one of his nightmare conversion games.

Think finny becomes an easy scape goat because alot of his best stuff is understated/unseen. Finn has been cities for the Abdull try, for example, which was Dorns fault - Dorn hung back instead of joining the line leaving too big a gap for Finny to cover.

[Dazzyb]

You can't have an opinion on here without people thinking your player bashing. You don't need to list the people you agree with if it's your opinion post it, it's your entitlement. I believe sneyd was horrendous for 60 minutes, I also believe that playing in front of his new employers put him off his game, defo his kicking game. But the guy is class

[HuddsTigers]

Think people are singling out Finn because he did very little to impose himself in the game too. He made just 4 carries in the full 80 minutes, where Sneyd made 12.

Perhaps we just went down our left far too much?

[the machine]

Think people are singling out Finn because he did very little to impose himself in the game too. He made just 4 carries in the full 80 minutes, where Sneyd made 12.

Perhaps we just went down our left far too much?

Thats also one of the reasons that dixon had a quiet game because he didnt see much ball

[KB80]

Think people are singling out Finn because he did very little to impose himself in the game too. He made just 4 carries in the full 80 minutes, where Sneyd made 12.

Perhaps we just went down our left far too much?

Thats also one of the reasons that dixon had a quiet game because he didnt see much ball

Made a couple of unforced errors though did Dicko - has done last few games. Some very indices like performances of late!

[the machine]

Over last few games alot have made a fare few basic errors etc. Hopefully they get over that come semi final time

[KB80]

Over last few games alot have made a fare few basic errors etc. Hopefully they get over that come semi final time

True - been a huge problem in my opinion. Our goal line defence has been exceptional but our errors are creating an over reliance on it.

[the machine]

Its were we give the ball away thats the worry,dropping it in our own 30 or conceding back to back penalties on our own line does us no good

[The Happy Hooker]

My thoughts on last nights game was that we made the wrong team selection from the start.
Surely the London match was the time to rest players, Huby for instance at Leeds started on the bench and did not put in long stint.
Hull were obviously going to be up for this match due to the shellacking they received at Wigan.................. the first half has the worst performance of the season BY EVERYONE, why I don't know, never seen Dixon drop so may passes.
We tried to bully them in the forwards without our best six on the field.
Child was in his Salford mode, completely missing players not square at PTB giving second sets for no apparent reason and did he not reverse a decision initially penalty to us, then reversed to Hull could not see well enough in the North Stand at South Cave.

The last half of the second stanza is where we finally played to our potential where we targeted the Hull right hand side BOTH Finn and Sneyd combined well throughout to contrive the scores. Hull were NOT a good side, their forwards were poor as I said leaving the ground Sneyd doesn't know what he's let himself in for( although he had no say in the matter). It will take more than him and pensioner Price to turn Hull around. Ellis sad reflection of once great player.
Westy and Thompson no great loss IMO, would take Paea.

Played our get out of jail card tonight ..........................we can't play as poorly as we did tonight again (can we) [-( [-( [-( [-( [-(

[Ish.man]

Hey look, someone who doesn't know Rugby or actually doesn't watch games!

Educate yourself on what a halfback is supposed to do.

played half back for 15 years mate and if i did nothing like he does i wouldnt have played for 1 year. look at the difference between him and sneyd. id have said finn should be an organiser and a game manager but his kicking game is awful and has been for a long time

Agree totally, and I dislike the people that suggest there are people on here that voice opinion and say they haven't played the game. Finn has been crap lately that's fact.

[Flat Capper]

Really don't get the Finn bashing at all. Look at his stats. One of the top tacklers in the team and plenty of try assists.WHen you are at the game and you watch the way he is constantly barking orders at his forwards and getting them running the right lines you realise he is the type of player we have been missing for years. Yes he was a bit off yesterday but he wasn't on his own. I would imagine if you asked any of our forwards privately which half back combo they prefer, they would pick Finn and Sneyd every time.

Absolutely spot on and why the Finn/Sneyd combo offers a wide range of attacking options.

[TheSheriff]

How long is "lately"? He kicked Huddersfield to death.

There's been a lot worse in the team than Finn, he's just an easy target.

[mdean]

Last night we stunk and nicked a point, Hull reminded me of us last season and before - getting in to winning positions and panic and blow it.

No problems with team selection, Finn is leggy and is not going to bust the line, his kicking was average last night, but everyone was - If you had offered us 8 points from the last 10 available, we would have taken it, so in context you build for a season and a campaign, so this week was poor, but overall, 8 points from the last 10 available, 5 games unbeaten - I am pretty happy, the same players did all that as the ones who played a good 18 minutes last night.

Finn is an old fashioned scrum half, no problem with that, he isn't Alfie Langer, but he isn't worth this amount of vitriole!

[cas tigress]

There seems to be a lot of player bashing and what went wrong last night yet no one has mentioned the fact that we scored 4 try's to 3 and if we had kicked the goals we would have won by 6 points can't see why there's all this moaning when we get a draw at hull with several players being rested,have more faith in coach people he certainly knows what he is doing .

[Frankas]

Finn his an organiser and he has done it all season, last night he was playing behind a beaten pack for a lot of the game, so if there's any blame to be dished out it should go to Lynch, Milner, Carvell and the others for not bending there backs in the first half. Finn looks like he has taken the mantel from Owen. All 17 were under par last night not just one, if every player tackled like Finn has done over the season we would be top, but his defence never gets a mention, it seems to me were not happy without someone to get at.

[tigerfeat]

Pack wernt as good as they have been and took one or two knocks but i wouldnt say they were beaten