Poor crowd - where was everyone

Littlerich KNOWS .

I think the problem is there not as fit as fev and Sheff, stands out like a sore thumb to me in the games Rovers have played against you. You looked great for 60 mins at fev, but faded away badly after that and did the same last night. Get a new conditioner and youl not be far away

Well I suggest you look at the results on the fax site for this season as just as many games were close as were the ones we smashed them in against so called lower opposition could have gone either way at the end and ended up being close affairs.

Draw with Doncaster.
Lost to Barrow.
Scraped through against York at home.
Hunslet away was close.
York away was close.
Workington away was close.

You're right - I take your point - but other top clubs had similar results against the lower clubs too. What we haven't done is punch through at the other top clubs. We've struggled particularly against Fev and Sheffield. We LOOK miles away from them both in fitness and style of play. They looked so enthusiastic last night and that's having played on Sunday!! The skill level of both these clubs is beyond us also.

I agree, other top clubs did also lose against lower opposition, you are right. However the other top clubs also picked up points against the other top clubs too, we didn't, our 1 league win was against Sheffield at home first game after they had not had any warm up games, and even then 5 minutes longer they would have beaten us.

From the start of the season we have never looked like competing against them.

I actually said a few weeks ago I think we have 1 big game left in us but not 2 back to back ones. Law of averages say that every team must play really well at some point and we haven't clicked for months now so it was overdue, we played well at Sheffield 2 weeks ago. I doubted we could repeat that and yesterday was back to normality. There backs tore us a new one time after time and our fastest player was sat in the stands watching.

Oh and yes fitness wise I agree, sorry some players wont like it but we have halfbacks who look like 2nd rowers, infact that's not true as players like manning are fit. I cant understand this, your a professional sportsman so look after yourself better, that extra stone your carrying means the difference between getting to make that tackle or not.