Re: Good Friday Derby : Fri Mar 30, 2018 3:37 pm  

Disappointing not to have won with extra man .Atkin tried hard probably too hard? Marsh was on a hiding to nothing but was anonymous Lee at hooker was slow predictable and just not good enough.Marsh will get pelters,maybe rightly but Lee was ponderous. Masoe Greenwood Jewitt Carney Atkin Minns tried. Kavanagh Donno and Clarkson were poor.No brains no real power beaten by 12 who were just more professional. Very poor feeling as a fan today.Can live with losing a Derby but that was a really bad way to lose.. Throw kids in v Wigan and concentrate on Wid game.We are now (and probably always were) in a mini league of 5..

Re: Good Friday Derby : Fri Mar 30, 2018 3:41 pm  

Easy win really, even under the circumstances of having to play with 12 men for 71 minutes away from home.

Re: Good Friday Derby : Fri Mar 30, 2018 3:51 pm  

Didn't enjoy the result, but enjoyed the game. Don,t agree with some who say we are a poor team, but we are (I think) three players of higher quality short, but don,t have cover for half back when our first choices get injured and what we have is not up to it and it shows big time. We might have had 13 on the pitch but one or two were anonymous and made virtually no impact.
With Lunt, McGuire and others missing we are not going to win many. This needs addressing sooner rather than later before losing becomes a habit and expected.
Be interesting to watch it back and see why we had two disallowed and they didn't. if they were correct then so be it, but with my biased head on we always seem to get shafted by the VR, but I am biased.
The crowd were good today, hope they stick with it and back the team all season.

Re: Good Friday Derby : Fri Mar 30, 2018 4:02 pm  

DGM wrote:

Easy win really, even under the circumstances of having to play with 12 men for 71 minutes away from home.

tell us what you really think, not as good as you think you are,

Re: Good Friday Derby : Fri Mar 30, 2018 4:07 pm  

DGM wrote:

Easy win really, even under the circumstances of having to play with 12 men for 71 minutes away from home.

WUM. It was far from easy but I can't deny you deserved it.This is the difference between both sets of fans. Rovers were not good enough to beat 12 men and we can lament no Lunt mcg etc but more than enough ball for KR to win that.Sometimes however distasteful you have to as a fan just say best team won.Too many times losing side fans say 2 poor teams but facts are 12 men for 70 odd mins we could not beat.Bad poop...

Re: Good Friday Derby : Fri Mar 30, 2018 4:16 pm  

craig hkr wrote:

WUM. It was far from easy but I can't deny you deserved it.This is the difference between both sets of fans. Rovers were not good enough to beat 12 men and we can lament no Lunt mcg etc but more than enough ball for KR to win that.Sometimes however distasteful you have to as a fan just say best team won.Too many times losing side fans say 2 poor teams but facts are 12 men for 70 odd mins we could not beat.Bad poop...

But it was easy, 12-men for 71 minutes, simple rugby for the most part, decent kicking game, still managed to create a couple of huge overlaps. Except for some extra graft in defence, we didn’t really have to do too much to beat you.

[Mild Rover]

Re: Good Friday Derby : Fri Mar 30, 2018 4:28 pm  

Old Timer No 4 wrote:

Didn't enjoy the result, but enjoyed the game. Don,t agree with some who say we are a poor team, but we are (I think) three players of higher quality short, but don,t have cover for half back when our first choices get injured and what we have is not up to it and it shows big time. We might have had 13 on the pitch but one or two were anonymous and made virtually no impact.
With Lunt, McGuire and others missing we are not going to win many. This needs addressing sooner rather than later before losing becomes a habit and expected.
Be interesting to watch it back and see why we had two disallowed and they didn't. if they were correct then so be it, but with my biased head on we always seem to get shafted by the VR, but I am biased.
The crowd were good today, hope they stick with it and back the team all season.

To me that is why we are a team that at SL level will struggle. If we say a typical/average team can field, at full strength, 5 very good players, 6 good ones and fill the 6 remaining spots with reasonable squad players, we’re more like 3, 4 and 10. Chuck in a couple of injuries to our best seven and we’ll struggle most weeks.
There’s no single, simple solution. The player market means we’re unlikely to see a round of recruitment like that ahead of 2008 for a long-time, when the move away from relegation no doubt helped too. Bringing kids through helps, but offers most benefit to the wealthier, stronger clubs who are better placed to retain the best of them.
The two routes I see out of the cycle (excluding relegation and significant restructuring, or a big pile of new cash) are 1) to try to sign a talismanic marquee player who can change the perception of the club - it could go wrong in a Willie Mason stylee, but everything carries an element of risk, and/or 2) Hope for a change in the competition structure that suits us. Hard work will be needed, of course, but it feels like we need something as an inflexion point.

Abandoning the lightweight and mobile approach would be welcome, at some point too, imo.

Re: Good Friday Derby : Fri Mar 30, 2018 4:29 pm  

rover 2000 wrote:

your breath smells again. your on the decline ,shafted without watts, a good job you played us today otherwise another away loss,12 men or not we carried marsh, your result, but really nothing to shout about from what I saw ,

We won a super league game playing with 12 men for 72 minutes. I am not sure how many times I have witnessed that it my life but not many. Something for sure to crow about imo

Re: Good Friday Derby : Fri Mar 30, 2018 4:34 pm  

DGM wrote:

But it was easy, 12-men for 71 minutes, simple rugby for the most part, decent kicking game, still managed to create a couple of huge overlaps. Except for some extra graft in defence, we didn’t really have to do too much to beat you.

Absolute rot.Try being a good winner .I'd like to say your letting yourself down but it's par

Re: Good Friday Derby : Fri Mar 30, 2018 4:38 pm  

hull smallears wrote:

We won a super league game playing with 12 men for 72 minutes. I am not sure how many times I have witnessed that it my life but not many. Something for sure to crow about imo

Not seen many saying otherwise? As fans we can only react on what our teams serve up.. party time for Hull. Another post mortem for us . Should never be losing that but we did.Not as devo as MPG but a similar sense of disbelief