we haven't turned any corners or made any progress until the team start turning up and playing for the full 80mins every week

Yesterday we played for about 75mins after a shakey start...but it was a commited display.

we need to back that up with similar, and not the usual 60mins of doing nothing, losing the game then staging a comeback in the last 20 when the games gone.

Aww didums, hurry along mums got her titty out

If anyone thinks that we have "turned a corner" they are dillusional !!

We have, for the first time in a long long time, played with effort and spirit only to be totally ripped off by a ref's decision which was incredibily poor.

In reality though, we have lost to a very poor rovers team because we were not good enough to put them away. A half decent team would have stuffed that overated pile of $hite yesterday but we managed to lose it somehow.

Silverwood was a total clown but apart from an unusual and unexpected effort, we weren't that much better.

Hull were decent, rovers were ordinary and Silverwood was shocking !!

I don't see a great deal to be encouraged about. Can't fault the lads' effort at all but it was two poor sides out there yesterday (Rovers have shown in other games they are capable of far better than that). Yes on another day we could have won if it weren't for poor refereeing but I saw nothing to suggest that while Agar is in charge the future is anything but bleak.

Our trys came from off-the-cuff moves or individual efforts rather than structured plays (because we have none), our attacking play lacked crispness and incision and was riddled with basic errors (symptomatic of the poor coaching the players have recieved throughout the season IMO). To top it off the man who our coach announced he had made no special plans to neutralise scored two trys and set up another.

After the Leeds game I managed to make myself believe we might of turned the corner but it seems to me now all that is happening is that once we go behind the players abandon whatever Agar has told them to do and start throwing the ball around because they've got nothing to lose, to me this demonstrates that Agar is stifling what talent there is in the squad.

Hence the ? in the thread title - not a statement just a possibility. In the extremely unlikely scenario that we beat 3rd placed Huddersfield on Friday we might then say this game was a turning point. In the more likely scenario we revert to a half-@rsed 5 drives, hands on hips performance and get a good hiding, then yesterday was obviously a blip. Thing is you can't say with certainty.

Granted, It was a better performance than of late but I dont think Hudds will be cacking themselves either on our performance yesterday. Any decent side would have racked up 30 before half time.

We are a poor side that actually managed a decent effort yesterday but that doesn't change a great deal. A decent side would have comfortably won that game last night. Rovers are a very ordinary side punching way above it's weight and that must be down to Morgan's coaching. For me they're nothing more than a mid-table side pretending to be "top two" contenders and yet we have somehow managed to lose to them yet again.


However it was a fantastic effort by Berrigan, Houghton, Burnett. Lee and both the Horne brothers to be in Sharkeys before 10 o'clock !! They didn't seem too bothered about yet another derby defeat !!

Gotta be in it to win it sweetheart

Sorry but I don't buy that as much as I wish it were the case, of the 13 that started for them yesterday at least 6 or 7 would walk straight into our side

I think some of our players played above themselves yesterday. Part of that is to do with the extra enthusiasm that some of the new players have brought in. ATEOTD some of our players are not good enough and cannot play at that level consistently. The return of injured players will help but really it's next year when we can hopefully introduce players whose performance level is consistently good with the ability to peak at the right time. I hope we continue to try and play the offload game for the rest of the season as this in some way makes up for our lack of structured organising halves.