Hull FC • Pre season.

Put simply it’s either a one off or a first sign that something isn’t right. We won’t know for a few weeks.

If we look like we’ve no shape, energy, enthusiasm and haven’t practiced with ball in hand during pre-season in our next friendly I’ll be worried. The reserve team thing doesn’t wash with me either; yes it was far from our strongest but they just didn’t look coherent as a unit even allowing for losing Litten early on.

Head and heart both say that a rusty, mix-and-match Hull KR team didn’t really fancy it. Not great but… m’eh, from a fan’s perspective. If it wasn’t for the memory of getting tonked by Huddersfield in pre-season 2016 and that being such an obvious herald of the poop show that was to follow, I probably wouldn’t entertain the alternative as such.