Brett Hodgson must go back to the drawing board with Hull FC team selection ahead of huge derby

The harsh reality as a Super League head coach is that you have to live and die by the sword and the same applies for Hull FC head coach Brett Hodgson. Not for the first time, his team selection on Saturday posed plenty of questions from the Hull FC fans and that heightened after they fell to defeat against Huddersfield Giants.

Let me be clear, I'm not bagging a coach who has Super League credentials like Brett Hodgson, he is paid to make the big decisions and he's got plenty right. It was only a month or so ago that fans were going mad at his team selection before the Leeds Rhinos game and that ended up being an inspired decision.

But to be a successful team you need to know what you're getting from your key areas. On Saturday, Hull FC had a hooker and second choice halfback starting with another hooker and another halfback on the bench. I know in Josh Reynolds you're just getting a man back but it meant there was no continuity in that spine throughout the game.

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Everyone needs to know what's happening and while bringing new creative players into a game can trouble the opposition, it can mean your side loses some cohesion too. All that being said, that doesn't result in you throwing the ball to the floor on play five or turning in and missing tackles, and that happened too often on Saturday and that beyond anything else was why they lost.

Now all eyes are on the derby and if you're going on last week's results it's more important for Hull FC but if I was across the city I wouldn't be buying into that for one minute. The derby is important, end of. Everyone in this city knows just that, it doesn't matter how your season is going, where you