Post subject: Re: Good Friday Derby: Record score for Hull KR
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2023 1:46 pm
Sebasteeno
Player Coach
Joined: Aug 01 2005 Posts: 5907 Location: Definately not in the Cuddle Crew
Just got back home after coming back to Hull to watch that and thought id add my two penneth
Yes the club and team is a mess but for me its the back row that is really letting the side down especially on the right. Lane is absolute garbage, never has been any good apart from a few decent games a couple of years ago - the rest of the time hes been consistently turd. Cator not looking anything like the player he was though i know still coming back from injury - whether hes got the ability to step up again im not sure. We should have Savelio and Sao in the back row - much more size, grunt and would immediately be a massive improvement in defense too.
Next - Tuimavave - another one in the Taylor, Houghton, Shaul group - shouldnt be anywhere near the team and another given a long contract when for me he's done and has consistently shown nothing for two years. Get rid sharpish the kids fini9shed infact never really had it to start off with.
Mcnamara is no way super league level and needs to go on out on loan - play Balmforth there though i think he may take Cliffords place
Clifford - what an absolute pile of poop he is. Hes done nothing since arriving, doesnt have a kicking game, is not organising - how the actual love has he done so well in the NRL? Id even say Reynolds was better
Taylors just a fat pudding these days who also shouldnt be anywhere near the team - play a younger lad like Staveley
I could go on but thats the ones who stand out as being truly awful atm
Post subject: Re: Good Friday Derby: Record score for Hull KR
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2023 1:56 pm
Mild Rover
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Joined: Jun 01 2007 Posts: 12647 Location: Leicestershire.
Dave K. wrote:We miles ahead I reserves, academy and Scholarship, that's the one positive at the club at the moment.
In the history of SL, only Bradford, Leeds, Saints and Wigan have consistently won things, yhats because there success and squad was built in academy players.
You and other clubs are still miles off that, evidenced by not one player in your 17 coming through your own academy (Lewis was COHA).
You will beat top sides, now and again, but you have to win something or no one remembers, you had some decent years under Morgan including beating us in the play offs, but I've no idea what year that was or who knocked you out.
Best you can hope for is a cup final win, but until you get your youth right, you won't complete year in year out with the likes of Saints and Wigan.
That bus was missed nearly 30 years ago, and I don’t think there’s another coming. Sport is cyclical, supposedly, but in SL the wheel is both small and very slow turning. Consistent success is just for the same few richest clubs. Ironically, I don’t think their achievements are very memorable either because they’re so common place. It’s interminable but it is what we’ve chosen. If we wanted a shot at sustained success we’d merge. We prefer this. Even though it is mostly miserable, it is misery built on foundations laid in 1865 and 1882. And, now and then, the sun breaks through the clouds for a little bit.
'Thus I am tormented by my curiosity and humbled by my ignorance.' from History of an Old Bramin, The New York Mirror (A Weekly Journal Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts), February 16th 1833.
Post subject: Re: Good Friday Derby: Record score for Hull KR
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2023 1:58 pm
Mild Rover
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Joined: Jun 01 2007 Posts: 12647 Location: Leicestershire.
Chester Wednesday wrote:I’m sure the richest club in the country have got somebody on it
We’re better off than we were but you do know we’re nothing like the richest club, yeah?
'Thus I am tormented by my curiosity and humbled by my ignorance.' from History of an Old Bramin, The New York Mirror (A Weekly Journal Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts), February 16th 1833.
Post subject: Re: Good Friday Derby: Record score for Hull KR
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2023 2:00 pm
pmarrow
Player Coach
Joined: Sep 04 2006 Posts: 6345 Location: Hull
Keiththered wrote:Don’t be childish. You or I have no idea if this is as good as it gets. Only time will tell. I do however feel that Willie Peters has more chance of taking us to the next level this year than Tony Smith has of halting FC’s decline. If resources are the criteria then your lack of money, technical insolvency, lack of reserve/academy players making a breakthrough, seem to put you at a disadvantage. We have demonstrated our improved strength in depth this year, many of our squad players outside the first 17 leave even your first 17 in the shade. I accept that we have to demonstrate a consistent ability to compete with the top teams but only in the Cats away did we come up a bit short of a possible win. Three head injuries did not help. FC on the other hand can hardly compete with the bottom teams.
Here in lies your problem.
Your ambition is to be better then the team in 11th and not 1st.
Post subject: Re: Good Friday Derby: Record score for Hull KR
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2023 2:42 pm
the cal train
International Star
Joined: May 12 2011 Posts: 3338 Location: West Hull
Chester Wednesday wrote:We don’t have the resources? We’re now the richest club in the SL.
2016 has been mentioned and you’re all correct to do so.
If any of you hull fans don’t think you’re in a relegation battle then you’re burying your heads in the sand.
Hudgell was quite openly unwilling to keep piling profits from his other ventures into Rovers and you got some secondary investment and some glorified burger vans, you’re hardly doing the sand dance with Man City, Newcastle et al.
No one thinks we aren’t in a relegation battle.
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