Gentle demands more from Hull FC after poor spell against Warrington
HULL FC coach Peter Gentle lamented his side's inability to produce an 80-minute performance once again as they slumped to a 24-10 loss to Warrington.
Gentle pointed to an 'unacceptable' 15 minute period early in the second half as four quick-fire Wolves tries killed the game.
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Hull had led 6-4 at the KC Stadium before the Wolves took complete control, and his side's sudden switch-off left Gentle scratching his head for the reason.
A similar spell against Leeds saw the Black and Whites fall apart on the opening night of the season, whilst a slow start at St Helens ultimately cost them a win.
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"We have to get to the bottom of why these horrible periods keep appearing," Gentle admitted afterwards.
"After the 15-minute spell in the second half we got what we deserved. We have to start putting an 80-minute performance together because we are still only playing for 60 minutes.
"I don't know where that 15 minutes came from, although in the second half we only completed at about 55 per cent.
"We are learning a lesson along the way, but the result is still disappointing."
While Hull's second-half collapse mirrored their defeat at Leeds, overall, their performance was much better.
Despite missing key playmaker Daniel Holdsworth because of concussion, Hull proved more than a match for last season's beaten Grand Finalists for 60 minutes of a tight and entertaining affair.
On his 350th Hull performance, Richard Horne's methodical kicking game and his side's robust defence earned them a platform to win the game, before Warrington cut loose as Hull fell away.
A first Super League home defeat in nearly a year leaves Gentle's men with just one victory from their opening four games. And heading to Widnes on Saturday evening, the Aussie coach admits his side need to make further improvements.
"All sides go through adversity where you don't see a lot of the ball, but we have to be better than that," he added.
"We have Widnes this weekend and that will be a tough game up there, so we have to be a lot better.
"It is hard to see the positives at the minute because I am really disappointed.
"We showed in the first half that we were capable of matching it with them and we were in control.
"Our kicking game was good and we were going okay, so to put a 15 minute period together as we did was unacceptable.
"We have to be better than what we were. I'm disappointed in how the loss came about more than the loss itself."
HULL will monitor the fitness of Daniel Holdsworth during the week with the stand-off expected to have more tests before being given the all-clear to play at Widnes.
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by 3biesgalore
Tuesday, February 26 2013, 10:20AM
“forest the bluffer,as ive told you many times,i intentionally placed portobello st n the west side of the ground to catch a liar out in a post dircted to you,and did that successfully,because you didnt correct my post until other posters had jumped in and had corrected that post for you,it was such an obvious error to place in a post by me,that i thought,that even for someone as thick as you would spot the delberate mistake,but as i have said until they had stated the obvious,even that was beyond you lol,your just a muppet,whos been exposed as liar aint that right forest,perhaps if you answered some of my queries from that era of craven park, of which you wont find the answers to on wilkipedia,that would clear up any doubts about your time as a rovers fan,and in doing so you would recieve my sincere apologies.but to say you sneake in through the allotments was a big mistake by you because you dont have a clue even to were they were and how they were situated in the area of craven park,but i can safely asiure youit was not connected to craven park,im now thinking that you must have dug a tunnel,lets hope the greyhounds didnt get out,your a phoney forest,aint that so,ive even mentioned shops on both main entrances the club shop even being one of them and you didnt have a clue it was there,im also wondering if you even knew there was two main entrances to craven park on holderness rd.”
by 3biesgalore
Monday, February 25 2013, 7:47PM
“forest,you mean you think your actually good enough to be challenging for that eight spot,your not going to play your last 4 opponents for the rest of the season are you,well you know yourself that you could not have chosen an opening easier 4 sides than the ones you have already played,dont you think that they too can improve,salford still have players to come in from australia,i believe one is due this week broughton to slot in also at salford.”
by Forest_2013
Monday, February 25 2013, 7:36PM
“3biesgalore AKA Dexter the fraud
Dexter,
Can you clear up some of your posting discrepancies?
When quizzed about the old railway carriages in the old East stand you stated that
by dextertexter
Wednesday, August 3 2011, 2:30PM
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"bridrobin,still trying to be clever are you,your right i never used the east stand simply because i lived on the potobello st side so why would i want to be on the opposite side of the ground dimwit, now answer the questions i have put in that post dimwit, each one is very simple for someone of your intellectual,then again maybe not lol"
He went from never using the East stand to this
by dextertexter
Wednesday, January 4 2012, 9:42AM
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"bridrobin,why do you bandwaggoners always swear they are long time fans even when they are caught out with their lies beats me,yes i did have drinks and meals in the club at the end of the east stand and you had to be a member
Bless him”
by 3biesgalore
Monday, February 25 2013, 7:34PM
“ellis and holdsworth not bad players to be missng out of gentles side methinks.those two when missing would have an effect on any side,as they have proved during their time at their last clubs,when absent.”
by Forest_2013
Monday, February 25 2013, 7:31PM
“11pointsbelow (IQ test result)
I think you are still a little rattled from me embarrassing you yesterday.
You call people obsessed but you have a username that has a reference to Rovers.
Bless him
Any news from Pearson yet?”
by Forest_2013
Monday, February 25 2013, 5:50PM
“2biscuits
Pearson was getting his cheque book out over the weekend but it was at Leeds United.
Makes you wonder why he wasn't at the game on Saturday.
DEC31VE
lol”
by PussieSlammer
Monday, February 25 2013, 5:18PM
“Last night's performance by the Dobbins proved what I have been saying for many months and that is that Hudgell has assembled a bunch of journeymen,cast-offs and rejects who are not up to super league standard.
The Dobbins scored a lot of points against an extremely poor Salford side who have seen their best players sold off and had to borrow players until their new recruits arrive.
It must be clear even to the thickest Dobbin's fan why Huddersfield allowed Adam Walker and Greg Eden to leave and they must be laughing all the way to the bank for the fact that the Dobbins actually paid a fee for them. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Eden looks good going forward with the ball against the poorer teams but he has no defence and was responsible for three of the tries the Dobbins conceded last night. Walker spend his time telling the HDM what he is going to do to the forwards of the opposition sides but when the fists got flying last night he put his hands over his head and ran for cover behind his team mates.
Paea and Tui are non-existent during matches and not worth a mention whilst Mika is lazy and makes many mistakes and his first name,CON, is significant because he conned a contract out of the Dobbins when no other club would touch him with a barge pole.
As for Caro, he has no defence,poor positional play and worse of all NO BOTTLE,I can't think of a single winger in the super league who wouldn't have scored a try given the opportunity that Caro was presented with in the final minutes of last night's game.
Welham's and Hall's defence have not improved in fact Welham does not seem interested any more.
The only decent player in the Dobbin's team is of course Dobson but he won't be there for much longer,he has openly critisised both his team mates and his coach.
As for Sandycock,it is obvious even to him that he is not up to the job and is way out of his depth.
I'm afraid that the Dobbins will be in a competition with Salford and the Broncos to avoid the wooden spoon.
Dread to think how low the gate will be for the Warrington match.”
by 2biscuits
Monday, February 25 2013, 2:47PM
“Good time for Adam Pearson to get the cheque book out to sign Michael Dobson and try to offload Seymour.
If only we had a quality 7.Its that attacking link we are missing that can transform us from a good side to a top side.”
by 11pointsbelow
Monday, February 25 2013, 2:35PM
“abnormal norm yes we got beat, by warrington the favourites to win the comp!!! and warrington would not give us a 20 point start, remind me who beat you and how many games had they won before last night!!!”
by granma
Monday, February 25 2013, 2:04PM
“There was some very entertaining rugby over the weekend even though the results did not favour our side I am sure things wil improve when conditions do. Disapointing but not worrying.”