Just to clear that up, the ref stopped play when two Rovers players clashed heads. I don't think Baile's was a head injury, which is why play wasn't stopped.

Not sure what his injury was but he was flat out and not moving when he allowed play to go on. Not sure what your viewpoint was re the Shaw bomb but it was caught by the wind Usain Bolt would have done well to get under that.

We didn't give our wingers much protection in order to take those bombs - something else to work on.

That try by Addy from super play from Fleming and Mellor was something else.

Yeah it did get caught by the wind, but he actually got close enough to catch it imo, but then backed out at the last second. They'll give him plenty of bomb catching practice in training now and get his confidence up, I'm happy for Shaw to keep his place at fullback and get Mullaney in at seven and Addy back at loose.

I was surprised how well we did for 65 minutes and I think we put down a marker there. The ball in the air caused us a few too many problems with what was a bit more breeze than I had realised. I think Purtell and Mullaney would have made a big difference and possibly Williams. I doubt changing the forwards would have changed much.I doubt you'll see a clearer red than the punch on O'brien. ...... presumably it was retaliation for something as it came out of nothing obvious. I'm more disappointed than I thought I would be but very heartened by the performance.

I think the missing players argument works both ways however as we only had 1 out and out prop from the start in walker, and were missing green, allgood, Maurice Blair and darrell Goulding who would all be in the 17.
Regardless, I thought you guys looked really good. Quick ptb's and went with width early on. Adam o'brien looks a player, and sidlow did well. Just a little bit of quality from us made the difference. You kept campese very quiet which most teams struggled to do. I enjoyed the game, and you guys should look forward to a pretty successful season

Great game by your lads today ,thought you were very good,best of luck for the rest of the season,few 50\50's game could of gone either way,no way were we 20pts better

The result shows you were better. Maybe a bit more composure than us at important points. The margin doesn't really matter in the cup but the last 15 mind were not expected. It's what we've being doing to teams all season.

Wouldn't be too hard on your team mate, I hope sky cover our fixture with hull fc that's originally scheduled for the 19th July as I would love to come back to odsal to watch you and Leigh, we could be playing you shortly after that.

Delighted with performance if not result. Don't think we've anytthing to fear in middle eights. Walker should have seen red and that would have changed game. Thought ball steal on addy was pretty clearcut and ref got it wrong. Also blatant forward pass for one of their tries. Score line flattered rovers massively in end.

Ball steal was 1 on 1. Flat of the hand by walker. Every pass was forward going by the nutters near us. Ref did not have a good game. But never affected the result.

I was surprised by the pace of the game, it was no faster then the games we play week in week out, so that's quite promising for the Middle 8s. Not too gutted to have lost that one, we were not going to ever win the cup, but enjoyed the game.

There have to be question marks over at least two of the KR tries, and in the end the score flattered them, but a good experience for the team, and with a fully fit team, who knows....

I thought we did reasonably OK. The line up surprised me as the backline and the bench looked a real hotch potch, but having said that Walker played well in the centre. What happened to Ulugia who is starting to look handy.

I've been pretty ambivalent but I thought we missed Harry Siejka who defends well and gives a bit of structure as well as pulling Addy away from the base of the scrum.

On the negative side, Henry was poor in the centre and worse on the wing. Our last tackle kick option is very poor.

Ref: A closed fist punch to the face of a marker is a red card.
The pass for Mantellato's try was in front of me and looked flat.
The ball steal looked 2 on 1 and took forever.

Overall 55-45 disappointed, although Lowes didn't sound too bothered. HKR will be in the middle 8s in my view.

Well, the expected defeat, but I hadn't expected to come away feeling so frustrated. First, the ref is not fit to referee, as no first class official could possibly see a prop punching a little hooker out, in cold blood, at a PTB, as anything other than a red card. The cowardly fckr should be banned 2 games for that but won't be as it was "dealt with". Who knows what difference a man advantage, and a prop to the good, might have made?

Also, we have player laid out and not moving, yet the yellow cretin was the only man in the ground who failed to agree the game should be stopped. He was 30 yards away and had no way of knowing if it was a bad head injury yet shamefully he played on. Utter pillokk.

Second, all season we have been like rabbits in the headlights under the high ball. Maybe it was a bit blustery, though surely not that bad, but we regularly just stand back and let the ball bounce, are we mad? Go for the fkn thing! If ya drop it, ya drop it, but this leaving it to bounce is suicidal - and so it proved.

Overall on the play, the Bulls looked if anything the better team, and in amongst, played some lovely stuff, and got some good tries. KR, in contrast, fed off our mistakes, git regularly lucky and took their chances, but while much of our play was at least as god as theirs, they were more professional and less prone to shooting themselves in the foot. Letting the kickoff go dead, just after scoring, is a great way to switch momentum. They scored. There is no excuse. They scored. Henry's ludicrous forward bat, on his own 40. They scored.

I went away frustrated, but unexpectedly heartened too. KR know they dodged a bullet, but I am glad we are out of the Cup, and whatever significance you attach to the game, it showed that we can put 30 deserved points past a top-8 SL side. And our aggression, and go forward was excellent. But Jimmy does need to do something about the pantomime defending, sure some was unlucky, and sure some (like the forward pass) was ludicrous, but you just can't ship 50 points at home.

life must be amazing viewing it from behind those white black n red tinted glasses

It could be better, if you could stop posting trolling drivel

trolling am i? Show me any sort of trolling i came on here to try get a fair assumption of the game but your analysis is biased and poor and wouldn't bother trolling you petal

Yes you are trolling, because rather than responding to anything said, you just posted an insult. I do of course understand you do this as you don't actually have the wit to enter into a conversation, and trying (very badly) to wind people up probably distracts what passes for your mind from your small penis. Now jog on.

Haha what a card you are

Now who's posting insults? And I thought Saint's fans were sore losers......

FA - To be fair to Oafy , his first post was anything but trollish . On the in game thread he posted:

Was impressed with your hooker today, thought sidlow was really good, gaskell did really well,
I must admit when I saw walker lash out i put my head in my hands n said straight away he was off think we probably got away with 1 there, all your tries came up our middle probably a result of having 1 prop, our fringe defence was up to the job today you just bust us up the middle as expected, all in all the game was won with our backs being a bit better than yours (no offence)
best of luck for the season really enjoyed my visit (and the £2.50 a pint)

I think my new self discipline rule is to never read past half way down page one of any game thread.

Thanks bullnorthen I came on to talk about today's game and maybe had a little sarcastic dig towards ferocious biased n pretty poor post i suppose that was to make me feel better about my small penis

Bullnorthern, I was at the game, not in the thread, and just responded wearily when I had posted a long discussion about the game, to be met with his poor one liner which seems to be just looking for a rise. As he has now admitted. He could have commented on what it was he so disagreed with and why, but instead just farted. If he makes a reasonable post it will be treated as such.

Here goes
No 1 it wasn't a punch from walker he pushed him in the face
no2, I wouldn't say Adam walker is a cowardly fckr
No3 you had a 3 prop advantage all game
no4 there wasn't a head injury so game was correctly played on
no5 you say you were the better team then contradict yourself ,the game was even you wasn't the better side and our tries didn't all come off you mistakes if that's the case we must be 1 hell of a lucky team