When you lose two of your starting XV in the first 10 minutes disrupting your plans for timed substitutions, lose you lead with just 10 minutes to go but still win, it says much about the Hull team.
Lineouts were much improved and more varied but one or two were lost or not won cleanly. The young front rowers did very well having the edge on Hull Ionians in the first half.
The pack drove hard and none more so than try scorer and second row man Liam Regardsoe, and he had many other pack members who followed that lead.
Perhaps the defining moment of the game was also a great commentary on Hull’s team as a unit. Seeing the game-winning try sitting in the stand in the gathering gloom with people standing up meant I missed some vital moments..
The video told me so much more. A lineout variation with a short throw to position number one gave Charlie Beech a little room and he made the most of it brushing off his first would be tackler then scattering the home defence.
The pack followed up so quick ball followed by a good scrum half pass from Joe Barratt which gave Reece Dean a little space to work with. All the backs surged into the line with Duell Trueman passing perfectly to put David Davison in at the corner.
A superb team try with everyone in the team involved. There were other defining moments like Dean!s try saving tackles but that try said it all.
There were errors and things to put right, but what a treat the Hull team served up.
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