Kendall absolutely hates Leeds. So obvious he doesn’t even try hiding it.

Grow up

At least it wasn't a blow out or nilling.

Fusi being injured again is just lol.

As mentioned fitness and concentration/ mental strength is so bad.

Positives it wasn't a smashing and Edgell error aside, first half was decent. Lumb also decent. We also did defend well in the first half.

At least this draws a line under another poor season. Its going to take a while to build this squad up. It needs some serious investment and thats not going to happen overnight.

There's some on here that said he's international standard, but in reality he's only good enough to carry kit bags and even then he wouldn't want to pass it on.

thought leeds played ok tonight, full back had a good game, put a lot of into the first half and looked a bit gassed after an hour, good effort though

We looked gassed after an hour because of the amount of stupid errors we made. As well as fitnes, the off season needs to see basic skills drilled into them.

Arthur said they'll start pre-season next week to give them an idea of what it will be like and then have a break. He mentioned focusing on doing basics under fatigue as something they will practice. He's said the attitude is good but clearly not impressed with fitness and execution of even the most basic jobs. Some players are not going to like this. Which is a good thing - far too many seemingly happy to continue to stuff up every week.

You guys came to play tonight and were unlucky not to be ahead at HT. The young FB was exceptional and then that awful error to gift Rovers a try just before HT. It might make him it might break him..I suspect the former.

Beforehand I was telling Rovers fans how good a player Rhys Martyn is and not just a great goalkicker. He then proceeded to run our right edge ragged and miss a straightforward goal kick

Second half Rovers raised the intensity and ran out comfortable winners. Good luck for 2025.

I suspect after 2 weeks of preseason some might want to leave!
far too many in there comfort zone and I think arthur will make a huge difference both mentally and physically in preseason. a few home truths will be told too.
exactly what's needed

You can see BA’s not here to mess around and continue in the same vein. I hope you’re right Tad and a few decide they can’t take it so leave, lord knows we need more turnover of players than simply those who are OoC.

as others have said I expect mom, sangare, goudemond to go.
I expect newman to get a rocket up his backside too. the quality is there but his attitude stinks. it's hardly side before self as Billy bremner once said!
I think arthur will make a real player of him

I like what Arthur appears to be aiming towards though I'm really not sure why sangare was persisted with over TNW

I agree about the first bit, I have a bit of a different take on Newman. I think he actually needs to be much calmer and composed and focused. I know he has ADHD and heard a story from a senior player about how is mind is racing pretty much no -stop. They are different characters but I think winding up Newman is akin to winding Gazza up to play football, it’s counterproductive. I also think he is better at right centre than left.

I’d be putting him inside Ryan Hall on the right wing and trying to sign Kallum back to play right second row and they can both mentor him and keep him focused on just doing his job.

One point about Newman is Wane has picked him in the initial England squad but not
Picked Oledski or Smith, so whatever Newman’s shortcomings are they are less pronounced than those 2 .

That should hurt Oledski because Wane has picked a lot. Of props and some are not very good.

2 things that I hope we change for next year is kicking and who carries the ball off our try line when the opposition has upped the intensity and comes after you.

Harry Smith last week and Lewis this week showed how to kick on last tackle and for touch from a penalty. Ours gave no challenge to the FB and never hit the turf . Frawley sometimes makes 10 yards kicking for touch.

In the second half we got possession close to our line and you could sense that KR were going to pile in. Alfie and Lumb took first 2 and got battered and then Newman copped a high shot.

A proper forward would have pushed Alfie and Lumb out of the way and taken the hit, from Wardy and Graham Eccles , through Roy Powell to Peacock they would not have sent boys into do a man’s job.

That is at the heart of why Wane does not pick Oledski or Smith.