Whichever way you look at it that’s a poor loss, HKR at home has to be marked down as a win if you’re a team that’s heading for the top 5.

I’m seriously underwhelmed by the start to the season, we’ve been heavily beaten by London conceding over 40 points, Lost to a Sts team that always struggles at BV and we’ve been kept tryless on home soil by HKR. On the flip side we’ve only beaten a misfiring Catalan who don’t travel well and lost 0-46 V Salford & we beat the worst Leeds side I’ve seen in 20 years.

This season is starting to look like a long & difficult one

Chester out yet?

Couldn't understand why the referee put Hull KR on a "team warning" and then penalised them two minutes later with no consequence.
TJ amost starved of the ball today. Any possession he had he had to go seeking for. a few more passes his way and I'm sure the points would have been ours.

I disagree with them being far too negative. The weather was atrocious and underfoot conditions too difficult to play attractive Rugby. What we were, as ever when in tight games at critical moments, was dumb. I have lost count now, the number of games we have lost in the past few years from not taking 2 points at the right time. Today EVERY TIME was the right time to take 2. I couldn't see either side scoring a try unless there was a good kick or a mistake. In the end it was a good kick AND a mistake that cost us but, for me we were very foolish not to take 2 when 4-2 up. We would have gone 6-2 up. They scored from the resulting play up field to make it 4-4. Without that passage of play, we would have gone 8-2 with the next pen and I really don't think Rovers would have recovered from that. Scoreboard pressure would probably have led to mistakes from them and at least another 2 pointer for us.
Outside of that, we really missed Ashurst and you could tell. The kicks to touch were the right tactic to try to force errors in good field positions.
So that's St Helens possibly thrown away by a dumb decision to GO for goal when we should have gone to the corner with a kick and today DEFINITELY thrown away by not going for 2 at 4-2. When on earth are we going to learn?

Now that is far, far too negative!

I agree with you. We have, for years, been a good weather side. On Tom's disallowed try, he was convinced he had scored by the look of his remonstrations with the Touch Judge after the hooter. I'd have like to have seen that on a video ref call. Given the number of incorrect try decisions in the last few weeks on Sky games, I would not be surprised if it was a try
For me, we lost because we were once again stupid when offered 2 in trying conditions and also we did not put good kicks in on the 6th near their line; how often have we also said that in the last few years? I thought we'd have cured that when we got Broughy back but we were poor today

Are you serious? We were superb v Leeds and pretty good v St Helens. To make judgements on attacking play today, I think is very unfair in such conditions

But you’ve got Tommy Lee lol.
Good luck with that.

Looking at the pic I’ve seen, looks like a try to me.... win some lose some.

I did park run yesterday morning and I can tell you, running into a gale force wind with hail and rain is bloody hard. The conditions frustratingly bucked up a bit for them when it was their turn. I think it unfair to criticise attacking play except maybe for the quality of attacking kicks. Not taking 2 again is what it boiled down to for me

Not being negative Charlie, just being realistic about assessing the first 5 games. Undeniably we’ve beaten two very poor misfiring teams and lost two games we all think we should have won while we would also have fancied ourselves at home to Sts.

Against Sts and HKR we’ve looked absolutely clueless when attacking the line.

I think many people posting are really underestimating how hard it is to play in conditions like that. Both sides struggled equally. They used a bit more nous when it mattered and that was the difference