Massive respect to our players, they looked like they were going to take a battering in that first 15/20 minutes but they squared up to the challenge and met it head on. HKR are one of the teams that sets the benchmark for this league, and with half a team missing we matched them and gave them a scare.

Honour in defeat last night.
Plenty of talking points and if's and buts, ultimately, we pulled up just short.
A monumental effort and if the conversion at the end goes over, we go on and win the game.
Great to see BV bouncing and cant wait for the next round.

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.

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.

Exactly, a lucky bounce off a crossbar was the difference.

I said as soon as the ball was passed to Max it should have gone left to Russell. Max was under all sorted of pressure to get that kick away.

But you know what. The players should all be praised after that. We will beat many teams playing like that this season. Keep it up because it’s working.

Still buzzing ,thought last week's performance was good ,but more impressed with last night ,Trueman out with a bug ,Hall past fit to play, but last minute call because of the bug .Fans go on about Warmsly ,but though he did well I see we got the (,if we lose let's blame Lino fans in again ) all the kicking had to be done by him ,as we had no experience 9 playing but thought both the young 9 went well ..The one player who is not impressing me is Russell .Had a chance to shine but did not bring a lot to the team last night .But the brand of rugby we are playing is on a different planet to any thing I have seen from Wakefield for a lot of years .And if we keep playing as a team to that standed every week, who ever is in the team, we are going to win more than we will lose

First time that I can remember, coming away from a game delighted with the team performance, albeit miserable that we lost. Effort and skill all 100%. Special mention yet again to Mike who just isn't human with the mins and workrate he produces!

It seems like we mostly drew the same conclusions - apart from how we thought our halves went. I thought they were okay shifting the ball, but thought Russell in particular kicked poorly. Swap Trueman in and we win that game, in my opinion. Overall I'm proud of last night - we're going to be alright this year, especially when we get some bodies back in spring. Imagine our side with Scott, Trueman, Hood, Nikotemo (or Griffin) and Rodwell back in it.