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Hull FC caput coach Brett Hodgson says his squad risk losing out on the play-offs if they do non plow around their performances.

The side fell to a second-half plummet to Castleford and conceded 38 unanswered points at the MKM Stadium.

Hull FC had led 18-fourteen at half-time, earlier Castleford ran in a farther six tries for a 46-xviii victory.

"The game was there to exist won at half-time but the second half was nowhere well-nigh expert plenty," said Hodgson.

"Information technology's difficult when you lot're in a rut, you have to fight your style dorsum out of it."

In a game with six cards shown, Hull had two players sin binned and Ligi Sao sent off. Connor Wynne was shown a yellow early in the clash, before being sent off again in the second half.

"The disappointing affair is that we felt it was tougher pushing and shoving rather than defending and the fact that we got three people carded is just non ok," Hodgson added.

"There are some players that absolutely take pride in their shirt and there are others that aren't doing enough.

"If we keep playing the mode we are we won't be in contention to play in the finals and we need to turn things effectually quickly."

Lee Radford delighted with functioning

Castleford boss Lee Radford was delighted with his team's response after falling behind at the suspension.

The Tigers lost Gareth O'Brien and Alex Mellor to caput knocks, but rallied superbly, dominating all aspects of the game. Derrell Olpherts crossed for four tries, with Bureta Faraimo, Suaia Matagi and Alex Sutcliffe also scoring.

"We had 2 available interchanges at half-time and just had three changes left at half-time," Radford explained. "I idea our middles dug in massively, Dan Smith and Suaia Matagi was phenomenal," he said.

"Derrell has been immense the last five or six weeks. He and Bureta (Faraimo) have been enormous coming out of backfield, you look at the metres they clock for us information technology makes a massive divergence."

The victory also marked Radford'southward first render to Hull equally an opposition charabanc.

"It was weird," he said. "Pulling into the footing, information technology's the first time I've been back here. Information technology felt a bit surreal.

"I might have been a bit on border prior to the game merely it was a foreign experience but there are some things I've done here that can never exist taken away and I'm very grateful for that."

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