Hull FC • Hudds challenge cup
davey41 wrote:
Interesting comments about Houghton and good to know what opposition fans think.
Slight exaggeration re Connor though. I understand opposition fans dislike him greatly but he wasn’t trying to win penalties at every set
He certainly wasn’t when he passed out to Swift, who dropped it whilst in the clear, when he kicked upfield or was catching the ball above his head?
His problem is his lack of pace. Don’t know if he has lost a yard or is another carrying a slight injury but he was very slow at times. Wasn’t the only one though.
One incident that annoyed me during the match was the penalty against us for breaking up the scrum. It was quite clear Hill was never packed correctly and pushed forward breaking well away from his own pack. Why the ref saw that as a penalty against us is beyond belief?
I didn’t particularly think houghton looked that tired, not as tired as some of the others - and they did less work! I think he’s capable of 80 if he isn’t doing the work for the rest who should be doing more.
Connor was trying it on at times, you just have to watch him, constantly chirping at the ref and waving his arms around - frustrating as he doesn’t / shouldn’t need to he should let his skills do the talking. It’s not an injury - his lack of pace has ALWAYS been a down side to his game, something discussed many times when he was at Hudds. brilliant half backs may have and use that pace initially - but inevitably they lose it later in their careers and so have to adapt- clever players like briers and brough did that. Connor never had it in the first place so you’d think he would learn to adapt and use his other many skills- but despite no longer being that raw youngster anymore he was when at Huddersfield he just doesn’t seem to have done that. I think much of that is down to poor coaching, he was just emerging as a talent and then went to Hull and was never given the chance to settle into one position and really learn to perfect his craft at a crucial part of his development, and so has just always ended up “winging it”. That’s why we have the Connor we have.
Statistics: Posted by jools — Tue Apr 12, 2022 11:42 pm — Replies 258 — Views 21696