AP - Hull FC coach Lee Radford has been thrown out of the dressing room by his players following their 46-6 Super League hiding at Widnes.
Radford apologised to the club's fans following what he described as a capitulation by his players, who asked the coaching staff to leave the sheds immediately after the game.
Former NRL star Frank Pritchard was among those dejected Hull players in the dressing room with the ex-Canterbury forward scoring his side's only four pointer in the nine-tries-to-one demolition.
"Words don't put it into words if I'm being honest," Radford said.
"We simply capitulated and it's my responsibility as a coach.
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"I can only apologise to our supporters who came all this way and sang all the way through. It's also my job to try fix it up and that's what I'll try to do."
Widnes coach Denis Betts criticised the remarkable events in his opponents' dressing room.
"That would never happen here," Betts said. "It's wrong.
"If I was Lee, then I wouldn't be happy, I'd stand there and I'd want to know why they wanted to do that.
"There's no place to hide. If they can't say it in front of you then they shouldn't say it."
