Good win would have been better but for the goal kicking.

Hayes looks very promising.

Dufty looks a different player and Fitzgibbon was always going to be a great signing.

Exactly! He and the rest were talking HKR up and weren't giving us a chance.

Excellent result and performance given the conditions.

When the pitches dry up, hopefully it'll better suit the likes of Wrench and our back line, and I'm wondering whether Burgess has this in mind.

And 2 of the 3 are ex Rovers players. Good win for you lads tonight.

Some good tries, some good performances and some real resilience. Really enjoyed the match, the win was the cherry on top.

Happy with that, lots of effort and found a way to stop their momentum when we needed to.

There’s a hint of a good team in there. Watching the backs carry the ball away from our line you could see the selflessness and determination.

An open question

I never got to see his few games for us in 2017, due to a holiday and other match day commitments.

Whenever I saw him in NRL games, he was knocking on, making mistakes, doing nothing out of the ordinary

I've seen him a couple of times this season.

Just WTF does Peta Hiku do to warrant attention. I'm genuinely mystified

I can see the resilience of a Price side, and the potential of a Smith side. Not a 2010-2013 Smith side, but potential, all the same.

Do what I do pal tune into kick off time don't waste your time on these bitter clowns.we hear enough of em back end of season when they wax lyrical over saints or Wigan..switch off

Good to see a toughness about this team.. even when Kr were peppering the defensive line in the second half..the players stood up to the pressure.. last season the heads would have dropped and we get beat convincingly

Well played Wire...different story if a) they don't bomb 2 tries, or b) we kicked better than 1/5 goals.

If Dufty stays fit I think we could have a real Man of Steel contender

Hiku and Pomeroy came in at a time when we weren't great and to be fair to Peta, he had a mid air step and the ability to cut through the line or draw and pass. I didn't see much of him in the NRL but I'm glad we've not signed him now.

Pomeroy had massive guns

Can't remember the last time we kicked on the third or fourth and actually SCORED. Normally if Drinky or even Williams kicks early, it just turns the ball over aimlessly. Was it Hayes who put that kick through for the nice try?

There are a number of good contributions in this thread.
For me - that match could have gone either way. They bombed 2 or 3 tries, tore us apart on the rhs, had mom in Mikey Lewis.
91% completion rate - encouraging.

Burgess seems to have introduced an element of resilience and there's every indication that'll grow. We'd have lost that game in the previous 4 or 5 years. That's the single most important thing for me.
The debate about goal kicking and whether/how we should use Ratch will continue for quite some time. Clearly that could have cost us tonight.
Our rhs is clearly a weak point at the moment but it needs to be given time and I'd rather that be now than later. Less errors by Josh this game and some good runs out of defence. Connor took his try extremely well. Thought Holroyd had his best game for us, but needs time.
I really like Currie at LF, and seeing him generally more involved.
Dufty our best player - involved in some lovely stuff.
Can't say that any player had a 'bad' game.
When the tide turned against us we struggled to wrestle it back.
We shaded the 1st half, they more than shaded tne 2nd
Entertaining game.