We need to learn to put the shutters up and close games out. Our attack looks ok but as we know our defence is shocking, CS has got to be given time to sort this out IMO. He's still learning his way and things haven't gone the way he'd have liked so far but hopefully hell get there.

Regarding Scott Murrell, I thought he did well again last night, one of our better performers.

Another thing that baffles me is our inability to stop offloads.

I agree, if you don't tackle you won't win, but when you are tackling set after set its an almost certainty that you will concede tries. I was stood on the terracing below the score board and the try that was disallowed looked good, how he gave a tap 22 was anyones guess. I have no confidence in Hicks as a referee, he makes far too many mistakes at crucial points in games and as one poster said a while back, he is a 'homer' and tends to favour home sides. I said to my wife at 28-18 that I expected him to give a few penalties to even things up and I was right, not because I was being alarmist, but because I have witnessed Hicks refereeing too many times to come to any other conclusion.

5 losses, 5 crap refs?

Lol. Get over it, you are a small club with a VERY small fan base. HKR are being found out....at last.

We got what we dederved last night. we made an ordinary pack look like world beaters. Not sure why but our middle defence was shocking, we never once seemed to be able to put a player down.

the ref never lost us the game, we managed that on our own. Whether it was conditioning or just atitude we underestimated cas. Sandercock needs to stop blaming the ref, hes turning into ne wenger, take a bit of blame on the chin, we played dum rugby and need to smarten up.



We need a leader out there on the pitch, missing that big style so far this year.

We're still one of the least intelligent teams in the league, some of our play calls are so thick as to be laughable. I reckon if I sat down and tried I could probably guess what play we'd be going with in the three tackles time about eighty per cent of the time, so proper coaches must laugh their cocks off.

Hull KR....pride of East Hull. Your post says it all. Class.

You'll have to explain the connection with what you wrote and my post.

Get a life you sad little plank.

We lost the floor in both attack and defence. They slowed us down and we let them get a roll on as we made no attempt tolie on at all.

And you follow a club with a fan base a mere 3,000 larger than ours. go figure.



If you are a Barcelona fan, then I apologise profusely.

Our dream of a team full of quality home grown trolls remains a distant one.

Stop being mean stan, hes waited 6 years for that post, let him have his minute of success. He supports the newcastle united of rugby league, delusions of grandieur come free with the season pass.

Yes, we've upped our game in the respect, previously it was a slurpy cup of tea and a Tongan mafia t shirt, so we're moving in the right direction.



Rovers have gone backwards sadly. Last year, Willie Mason flags. This year:

I'll love it, love it when your bubble bursts...

We don't have a bubble. We'll possibly scrape into the play-offs, that is all, [uway[/u behind your 4th place (minimum). Unthinkable for it to be otherwise, surely?

Surely you're with the rest of them piling on aa grand final win at 19-1. better hurry those odds will plummet when youve won the next 5. I've got a tenner on it, i was so convinced after reading that thread.

2 people. Bless them. We [uare [/u7th favourite, which is about right, I'd suggest.



No, Joel Clinton for Man of Steel is where my money is going. I don't know what odds I'd get, do you?

The most intelligent post on the thread.imo

Sandercock needs to address our defensive frailties and NOT blame the ref

No only 1....I said they were good odds, but also added it was a pipe-dream, sooner waste my money on e-bay





I just hope we can win finish top 8 and give a decent account of ourselves!...now that would be progress.

when did you start watching rugby Mr.Keegan?

Are you one of the TOWIE cast?

Went a bit over our head that didn't it

only yours Kevin

Suppose i'll have to spell it out...

Now sit down and listen divvyoz.



I called fc the NUFC of RL. I then went on to quote the aforementioned Mr Keegans rant in the rare hope that it might be mildly amusing. Obviously to much sock use has impaired your ability to read so this went whooshing over your head.. is that clearer?

thanks great comparison both black and white and all that

Last night;



1. Rovers didn't give the game away, Cas won it.



2. My main criticism/concern would be that when Cas upped the intensity to fever pitch in the final quarter it was enough to tip the scales. From then on we were hanging on desperately albeit heroically. But our own go forward seemed to have been spent, it was all we could do to keep out what was by then a rampaging Castleford team.



3. Hudds were just the same last week - they had nothing left when the final screw was turned. It's difficult. Every team in Super League can win a game when they are desperate enough. Last night according to the Cas fans I spoke to they gave far and away their best performance of the season. They had to because they were so desperate for a win.



3. Cas were desperate but even so the only thing keeping Cas in the game during the first 55 mins was the brilliance of Rangi Chase. His brilliance single handedly kept an outplayed Cas team in contention.



4. As in every game this season there were periods when Rovers were really good. When we get our go forward rolling we are as good as anyone.



5. Salter did everything right in that match-deciding moment late on. Took the ball in his own in goal area, dived into play. Usually that's good enough. Five more tackles one minute left. The kid couldn't have done better fair play to him. A 30/70 decision went the way that 30% of decisions do and it turned victory into defeat for Rovers.



6. Should we have had the game well wrapped up by then anyway? Yes I think so.



7. Obviously we are a work in progress, it's one step forwards one step back right now and the progress meter will not be a smooth curve.



8. Anyone who under rates us does so at their peril. This IS a very exciting attacking Rovers team which can hurt any team in Super League. Find yourself on the back foot and .........well ask Huddersfield.



9. Good Friday. Who knows but I say this.. Rovers have enough ability and if we are more intense than them we will win.