At least the players are going into this one knowing that they can hang in there and pull something out of the fire, even when things get tough;. Sunday's was the best kind of win to foster self-belief and team unity; let's hope we can capitalise on it!

Not confident at all about next week; HKR seem to have recruited well. That being said I think Trin did a lot of good things that seem to have been forgotten forward pack particularly. Wonder what reception Craig Hall will get from the travelling fans.

I indeed stand corrected. It's just the feeling I have about them. Clearly the losses affected me more than the wins did!!!

I do remember though, when we thought we were doing ok, that Agar changed a few things and Hull KR hammered us. The forum went in to meltdown over that one.
It worries me every time we get a good win that we feel that we all have raised expectation and are then floored when it doesn't go right.
Cas are clearly not the team of last year (though I don't think they are a bad side) but Hull KR have improved their team and seem to be hitting it off straight away.

My only thing with Rovers now is that the half backs almost play like you've put the Johns brothers in an average side. They wouldn't improve the whole side in one day but they'd be playing harlem globetrotters stuff with each other.
On the highlights it looked like those two were trying everything and it came off with all the excitement, and when Leeds started doing the same it was a lottery.

We should be bringing a disciplined game with people who have played together. Hopefully that will keep them under control and we won't get drawn into a wild-pass-athon

Woulnd't say vey confident but I do think we can turn them over. Like you say they have a good back line but we need to get our forwards going fom the whistle this game. Keep hammering them down the middle and try to shut down Campese playing his game and hopefully that will do the trick. If we want to get away from near the bottom and close to the 8, it's games like this we need to win and playing Hull KR 2nd game when they'll still be gelling is the right time.

Will get a great reception off the kr faithful,who know if sandercock had been fired earlier,he would still be playing for us.Top bloke and a very good player.

Looking forward to this, should be an good game. I hope the weather holds up allowing a good standard of rugby. I wouldn't look to much into our weak forward pack....against leeds we had weyman ( our best prop), bailey and jordan cox all missing who all should be back this week, so that should help strengthen it up. Allgood and walker both went toe t' toe with the leeds forwards so should be fairly even keel.

I wonder what effect the big derby win has on you, it could either emotionally drain you or really get your confidence going. When we have had tight encounters with FC in the past we always come out drained the next game and flatter to deceive, but maybe been early season may mitigate that.

Kelly Vs Smith should be a cracker, always liked smith me very clever player so that should be a good dual.

With Regards Craig Hall - he will get a fantastic reception, unless he scores!! played well for us on numerous occasions and was a victim of the sandercock regime of loving aussies. I think 6 is his best position but you are playing fullback aint ya? still as a 3rd pivot i can maybe see that work n all.

All the best for sunday, see you there!

How many times has Bailey played for you so far? Has he found out who is the best person to hide behind after he's done his "big I am" impression?

I think it should be a good game, but we will need to dominate in the forwards to stop your backs getting a chance to shine. I reckon we can do that, but as you say the reaction after a tough derby game can go either way.

Looking at their stats from Sunday and I think they missed something like 60 odd tackles and have the top 4 missed tacklers for the round, including both their halfbacks.

On the flip side by all accounts both their halfbacks looked very good in attack.

So I reckon possession will be everything, if we can protect the ball well we should find enough gaps to win the game, but if we cough up the amount of possession we did on Sunday we could get a battering.

I Fancy us to win it though.

It may be a fairly high score.
You would expect our timing in attack to improve and they seemed able to score plenty past Leeds, so it should be an entertaining game.

We can take plenty from the Cas game and if we can have an even share of possession, I fancy us to win.

Come on Trin !

We where missing Weyman, Larroyer & Bailey on Sunday. All three would have been in our 17 man squad against Leeds. There is a chance 2 of the three will play against yourselves. Still don't think we looked bad against Leeds and dominated Leeds in the forwards for large parts of the game. We also outshone Leeds for 60 minutes so if we can turn that into an 80 minute performance we'll do okay on sunday.

Having only seen the highlights, Leeds scored following one of the most blatant obstructions that you will ever see (the Maguire try in the 2nd half)
How that wasn't a penalty is just baffling.

I don't think many Wakey fans will be fearful of Bailey's return to action - the lad's full of and wind.

That said - from the highlights, HKR look to have plenty of threat in attack; it'll be a tough game.

Any thoughts we have from round one we have to take with a pinch of salt. Teams don't usually bed down properly til 4/5 maybe even later.

I saw that so called try live and was outraged along with the 10000 other Rovers fans. Thaler had a shocker. A couple of other key decisions went against us as well, which would have been allowed by the video ref if the match was televised. These weren't shown on the highlights. I have also watched the full game back on our TV channel.
The game could have gone either way until Leeds got their final try 3 minutes from the end. By then HKR were running on empty as Leeds were throwing the ball around at will to try to get a breakthrough and the game was getting like touch rugby. Exciting but hardly structured. It was high risk for Leeds and it paid off for them - just.
We had a fullback who tried to wipe the dandruff off Briscoe's shirt instead of tackling him for his opening try in the 2nd minute and a centre who has played for us for the last 7 seasons and who jumped the line for a pastime. Watkins and Maguire exploited this weakness for 2 tries. Hopefully he won't start for us this week.
Despite what has been written by many Wakey fans in this thread, the Hull Kr forwards outplayed Leeds in the first half, matched them for the first 20 minutes of the second half and then tired and fell off tackles in the last 20 minutes when Leeds went high risk.
It should be a good game on Sunday and it could go either way, but I expect Rovers to tighten up a bit and Wakey to try to hammer us up the middle. Will be close.
Finally, I wish we still had Craig Hall - talented lad.
Good Luck.

Only Bailey in your squad which is more of a boost for us than you. Donaldson also now out injured as well. I think we will get on top the longer the game goes. Wakey by 12.