Black and Whites made far too many errors to stand chance of winning

LATE SURGE SHOWS WHAT FC CAN DO WHEN THEY GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER

- By DAN TOMLINSON

Hull FC built their post-Magic Weekend resurgence on one key pillar: discipline.

That's not just limiting the six agains and penalties they give away, not to mention an unwanted sequence of cards that were being handed out, but also how they play, how they turn the ball over, and how long they can stick to that desired process.

At Leeds, Leigh, and Catalans, the focus was on playing through their sets, turning the ball over in the desired areas, and then defending tough. The goal is to then get some rhythm, and when that rhythm starts to flow, the opposition generally cracks through fatigue - allowing the strike players to take over, cue Will Pryce in Perpignan.

Hull were very good at that process, one the likes of Hull KR have nailed under Willie Peters, against both Leigh and Catalans - and they almost came up trumps at Leeds too. But it's a process that requires a lot of concentration, patience, buy-in, and, again, discipline - and it was discipline that was found wanting against Castleford on Friday night.

Succumbing to a 22-14 defeat, Hull were poor. Instead of getting into their desired rhythm, they made numerous unforced errors, cheap errors, and deep errors in their own half. It left them with too much defending to do, and eventually, after a sustained period of pressure, they cracked in the second half.