Hull City match thread

Good performance tonight, massive improvement from Tuesday probably helped by starting 442 and quite honestly what looked a pretty poor quality mudrat team.
Donny were far and away a better footballing side on Tuesday, Pearson dominated Mclean and Miller likewise with his man, Cameron Stewart who we hear Hull fans talking up on Radio Hullberside most weeks was f\/cking woeful and Robbie Koran(?)...the amount of times i have heard Burnsy virtually lob his c0ck out and start beating while saying ...oh ....Robbie Koran this and that while doing his commentary, i was expecting something spectacular but fairly average i thought.
Pearson and Niven probably rightfully subbed at half time as the worst perfomers in first half, but the second round of substituions killed us off as an attacking threat, once Elding, Soares and Southwell were on the ball rarely sticked and we lost any momentum and ball retention dropped IMO.
However pretty happy with the defensive shape throughout the evening and Fleming looked assured in goal, caught crosses outside his six yard box, came and called for balls despite his team mates ignoring him and kicking away.
Also watching the u13 / u14 match in front of the Osmand Stand there was some quite neat football being played from front to back on both teams which bodes well. Very tall player in the U14 side was very calm on the ball under pressure and looked comfortable on the ball for a defender.

Well done all. UTM.

Quoted from Tommy

he pushes up to close the ball down straight away on the wingers first touch, rather than keeping his distance and backing off.

Wasn't the case at Gainsboro though - I bet they've worked on this.  

Quoted from Tommy

Niven, i can guarantee, is going to be this season's boo boy unfortuantely.

Must say Tommy I find that difficult to believe just because of 1 pre-season game.
Don't think he'll ever have another game like that (wasn't bad just these things can often spiral) and confident it will all be quickly forgotten and forniven  

Quoted from Tommy

Cook did really well. A great piece of play in the second half to control, turn round a man and ping a left footed ball out in front of Artus was a great bit of play.

Forgot about that - was real top notch and one of the highlights of the night.

Quoted from Tommy

Southwell impressed me again. The thing that strikes me about him is that for a 1st year professional, he is strong, holds the ball up well, and is intelligent to know when to lay it off and when to turn. All things you don't usually associate too much with young strikers just finishing their YT years. We're used to seeing the likes of Mulready, Andy Taylor, Johnny Rowan, Mansaram etc come up from the youths and get pushed around all over the place by defenders. Dayle appears to be able to handle himself out there which is great.

Impressed me too.
Suppose the question is whether he's strong enough for a starting first team place ?
Obviously he's not a target man and skill and goalscoring are his strengths but just wonder if he can cope for a full game against big physical defenders ?
Wouldn't mind seeing him play 90 mins vs Scunny to find out.  
In any case, at the very least think he'll be good backup or a great option to come off the bench.