Hull coach Lee Radford has revealed he was asked to leave the dressing room by his own players after a 46-6 defeat at Widnes. Widnes consolidated top spot in Super League with a nine-try rout of shell-shocked Hull FC at the Select Security Stadium on Thursday.It was the Black and Whites third successive defeat after a promising win against Catalans in the opening game of the season, and an embarrassed Radford afterwards admitted he had left the players to conduct their own inquest. We simply capitulated and its my responsibility as a coach, he said in the post-match press conference.I can only apologise to our supporters who came all this way and sang all the way through. Its also my job to try fix it up and thats what Ill try to do. As a rugby player, youre told to compete and that stopped being a competition after 20 minutes.Its the most difficult defeat to take for sure. To have no fightback was embarrassing and the staff have just been kicked out of the changing room by the players. Highlights of Widnes 46-6 win over Hull FC at the Select Security Stadium Ive no idea why they asked us to leave, they just asked us to - its never happened in my career before.Radford had earlier told Sky Sports: How we capitulated like that is beyond me. I am a proud man and I am very embarrassed with what has gone on.Our confidence seems shot and we look a shell of the side that started the season - that is mental toughness. Collectively, to collapse like that is a real worry. Im good for the fight - that is one thing I can do - fight.We will go to work tomorrow and look to correct this -and if I cant, then somebody else will. Widnes Vikings captain Kevin Brown joins Jon Wells at the touchscreen as they look back at his sides massive win over Hull FC Fighting spiritWidnes coach Denis Betts was proud of the way his side handled the pressure Hull exerted on them in the opening quarter. Hull went 6-0 up in the seventh minute and had three tries disallowed and the Vikings hit back to take control.Hull FC came after us early and we thought they would try and kill us early with their size and their strength - they were pumping holes into us and it was hard for us to handle them, said Betts.Our bench was great, Macgraff Leuluai, Alex Gerrard and Aaron Heremaia came on and gave us a real boost. We just went about our business and used what we had done in the week to great effect.We knew it would take some time and we knew we had to stay in the fight - we did that and we came through the other side with flying colours. 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We challenged them to do that and they responded.Tulane (1-4) got 18 points from Cameron Reynolds and 10 apiece from Malik Morgan and Kaiin Harris, but lost for the third straight time.This was a tale of two halves for us, Tulane coach Mike Dunleavy said. I thought we did a really nice job with their dribble penetration in the first half. Then they just took it to us in the second half, got to the free throw line a bunch and scored 40 points in the paint on us. Its hard to survive that number.Puryear and Walton, who had two points each in the first half, woke up a stagnant Missouri offense at the start of the second half. They combined for 27 points after halftime.Puryear scored nine of his teams first 11 points of the second half with some strong post-up moves to cut the 10-point halftime deficit to just 36-33 with 15:50 left. A few minutes later, Walton came off the bench and scored 11 points in a 15-3 run to givve Missouri a 51-46 lead.ddddddddddddBIG PICTUREMissouri desperately needed this win. The Tigers looked uninspired in the first half, but showed a lot of fight and energy in the final 20 minutes. Tulane was just as desperate, but expectations for the Green Wave arent nearly as high as they are for the Tigers. Tulane led most of the game and had an opportunity to steal a win at the end.AT THE LINEMissouri didnt shoot a free throw in the first half, but went 13 of 16 in the second half.Us not shooting a free throw in the first half is not a criticism of the officials, we just werent taking the ball strong to the basket, Anderson said. 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