The nilling is the key. You’d want to score just to prove your systems work.

That said I expect Fev to be the hardest of the three pre season games, they love beating us

Fev will certainly be up for it next Sunday and, as always, will give it their all. Looking forward to it.

The Rovers squad for 2023 is: 1 Brandon Pickersgill, 2 Luke Briscoe, 3 Chris Hankinson, 4 Craig Hall, 5 Gareth Gale, 6 Johnathon Ford, 7 Riley Dean, 8 Craig Kopczak, 9 Connor Jones, 10 James Lockwood, 11 Brad Day, 12 Elijah Taylor, 13 Jack Bussey, 14 Matty Wildie, 15 John Davies, 16 Junior Moors, 17 Gadwin Springer, 18 Josh Hardcastle, 19 Luke Cooper, 20 Mark Kheirallah, 21 Joey Leilua, 22 Dan Fleming, 23 Caleb Aekins, 24 Matheiu Cozza, 25 Thomas Lacans, 26 Tyla Hepi, 27 McKenzie Yei

Thats a pretty handy squad.

I think we had a soft underbelly last year and last years friendly against Fev showed that. I listened to Tanginoa last week speaking about how training was an issue last year due to its lack of intensity etc. Hopefully we’re a different animal this year.

seems like Fev picked up a few worrying injuries in the last two games... given they are only a week away from the first championship fixture of the season ,,, and I would hope we are beginning to ramp up intensity

it will be interesting to see if they play it safe or go all out in this game?

The only real injury of concern other than the two players who are out long-term was John Davies, whose hamstring is likely to keep him out for a while. Bussey rolled an ankle and Leilua has a sore calf so we'll have to wait and see if they play.

I hope Leilua is playing. Be a nice test for our lads.

That handoff he did on the Hull KR fullback was hilarious.

Just what the doctor ordered ,a good tough game against quality opposition will set the lads up nicely for the campaign ahead .All well and good racking up cricket scores against much weaker opposition, but imo we need to be battle hardened as much as possible and hit the ground running in our first game of the season and give it to Les Cats with both barrels.I’m really hoping that a tough pre-season will stand us in good stead for the rigours to come and we keep in the battle for the full 80 ,if we can I feel we are a match for most and a mid table is achievable as long as Lady Luck shines on us with injuries.

TBH if they give us as good a game as Fax did I'll be delighted. I thought Fax were excellent, every bit as god as Fev looked, so those two combined will be good pre-season work out.

Think the HULL game will be mainly reserves but who knows.

Very sad news for him indeed.

I am looking forward to the game should be good for both clubs and I expect fairly strong team selection from both, injuries and niggles permitting of course.

Slight tangent I know but I've just read this weeks League Express and it would appear that Les Cats have a bit of an injury crisis of their own...Fouad Yaha has had shoulder surgery and is out for 5 months, McMeeken is out with a broken wrist, Tyrone May is recovering from a dislocated hip and Tomkins is recovering from a knee operation. Plus, I believe Pearce is still banned and not eligible to play against us ??

The downside of your post is that although Tompkins is recovering from injury, I have it on good authority it will not stop him refereeing the game unfortunately

Tomkins is a massive loss for them, they are a completely different side with him on the field IMO, although they have an exciting replacement in Morgue, they miss Tomkins influence on the team when he`s not playing.

I`m hoping that we can catch them cold and come away with 2 points.