how close to a sell out are we, it cant be far off ?

Hull Kr play a very boring though effective game. They played near identical tactics to the Grand Final. It’s not expansive, it’s a grind and they keep you in it set for set. They have very powerful wingers and a very good pack who aim to gain 4/50 metres, get on our 3/40 and pen you in on the left hand side with a short but high kick. Our kicking game was poor last night when we really needed it to get out of our own half to alleviate the strangle hold especially in the first half. We did fantastic to go set for set and for large periods looked by far the better team. I feel it was the little 1%’s that cost us at the end unfortunately, kicks out of play, poor kicking, knock on et al. But being neck and neck with last years finalists with I reckon 7 shoe in starting 17 players is absolutely incredible and I actually feel more proud of the team today than I did last week. Also a special mention to the Ref with some bizarre calls

Great effort from the lads, a chance to nick it at the end. 2 moments for me the kick out on the full by Jowitt and the knock-on which was unsuccessfully challenged, turned the momentum back in KR's favour, we was on a roll both times. Cant wait for the saints game! decent bit of rest for the boys get some bodies back and into em!

I don't actually think our kicking game was so bad last night. The key one was Max's u fortunately which led to the try. We were getting hammered on our line and couldn't get out of our 20 sometimes and the kicks weren't long to get us downfield but Lino was kicking them high to give us a chance to get there. Rovers have a great kick return so if we'd given them open field to run at we could have been caught out. Plus the drop out for Tom. Worked once, an inch off twice.

Also worth saying they scored off a piece of luck, though clearly a good kick and reaction, and a piece of individual skill. We scored off two edge to edge team plays. Both executed perfectly. Max's pass to Tom was world class. Bodes well for rest of season.

[quote="PopTart":16ax0k7e]I don't actually think our kicking game was so bad last night. The key one was Max's u fortunately which led to the try. We were getting hammered on our line and couldn't get out of our 20 sometimes and the kicks weren't long to get us downfield but Lino was kicking them high to give us a chance to get there. Rovers have a great kick return so if we'd given them open field to run at we could have been caught out. Plus the drop out for Tom. Worked once, an inch off twice.[/quote:16ax0k7e] Russell’s kicking game isn’t the best. I don’t mind Lino’s as like you say he kicks it up high to get out kick chasers there. They’re all little 1%’s. And yes there first try was beyond lucky. Apart from the Lewis try which was fairly soft, they didn’t look like scoring.