Hull FC<\/a> player.<\/p>\nKnight was issued a yellow card by match official Tom Grant for a dangerous contact in the second half of Hull\u2019s 34-6 defeat at Wigan Warriors on Saturday night \u2013 with the player dropping his opponent in a tackle that could see further punishment from the Match Review Panel on Monday.<\/p>\n
Before that, Knight gave away a penalty while in possession of the ball, with Cartwright issuing an honest verdict of the players’ discipline and that of the team post-match.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just plain dumb,\u201d Cartwright said. \u201cIt was stupid. I\u2019ll address that with Liam. It was dumb to give away the penalty with the ball and then even dumber to do what he did for the yellow card.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll be having a chat with him about that. In the scheme of things, it didn\u2019t look too bad. He didn\u2019t drive him into the ground \u2013 he let him go. But on the dumb scale it\u2019s probably a ten.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cartwright also gave his thoughts on Cade Cust\u2019s first-half tackle on Junior Nsemba, with Wigan players taking issue with Hull\u2019s half-back and insisting a shoulder charge tackle was performed. However, Hull\u2019s head coach was having none of it and said it was a \u2018good shot’.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a shoulder charge, not from my eyes,\u201d Cartwright said. \u201cWhen he (the referee) gave the penalty, he said high tackle. For me, Cade had his arm out, and in a shoulder charge you pin the shoulder to your chest. From what I could see, it wasn\u2019t a shoulder charge. It was a hard hit. It was a good shot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even without the two incidents, Hull struggled to control their discipline on both sides of the ball, with Wigan relentless in their undoing of the Black and Whites. The smothered Cartwright\u2019s side \u2013 who gave away various penalties and six agains \u2013 from the get-go and never let that control slip on the way to a dominant victory.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe came here confident,\u201d Cartwright, who is now targeting improvement ahead of Friday\u2019s game against York Knights, said. \u201cWe had a really good week of training. We just had no answers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got to be honest with each other. We can\u2019t lose control of the ruck, both defensively and then get monstered when we\u2019ve got the ball. It doesn\u2019t matter who we play. Anyone watching us tonight would be confident going in based on what they saw.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, despite the disappointment, Cartwright is confident his side can rectify the wrongs back at the MKM Stadium.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no panic here,\u201d the head coach added. \u201cWe\u2019ll address where we need to get better and go from there. The players are disappointed and they\u2019re hurting. They fought hard \u2013 they did \u2013 but even when we were fighting hard, we were still getting dominated in terms of field position.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you looked at where we were catching the ball and where they were catching the ball, we were pinned on our own ten and they were coming on their own 40. I\u2019d never question their courage or their attitude. It was just a bad night. We were playing against a very good side who dominated us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hull FC have some big improvements to make – with an honest discipline take given. Hull FC were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[41116,20805,28318,86574,5903,20370,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-439408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-cade-cust","tag-hull-fc","tag-john-cartwright","tag-liam-knight","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-league","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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