If you follow the letter of the law then cust was a sending off however it was a rugby incident with no intent, merely an unavoidable coming together. There is no realistic way of avoiding the collission when 2 players are going for the same ball at ful tilt in a game.  He clearly didn't hit morgue that hard or morgue would have failed his hia. 


The game needs to look at the rules imo or you just get games being ruined by sending offs where there is no intentional foul play. Maybe introduce what the rfu have with their 20 minute red cards where a replacement can then be brought on to bring the numbers back up to 13 but you pose an interchange player

There seems to be a lot of attacking players who are dropping or slipping just before point of contact . The defender has no time at all to adjust his stature within a split second .
I agree with Jake that the game needs to look at the current rules though . The Video Refs already look at in game head contacts so I'm sure they could judge whether any tackle was malicious or accidental .

i get more pocket money than you most of the top clubs are full of wealth you can only spend so much,the skill is in how you spend it,dosent matter how many billions they all have,dont forget hes gonna take a wage out of is investment,its great for the game in the city if we have 2 strong teams ,rovers are not there yet ,other teams will get stronger as well ,interesting times if your a hull or rovers fan

For context, about Lewis with one incident yesterday. During the second half you can see him turn round to South Stand beckoning them on. This followed a bottle being thrown towards the pitch from the South Stand (West side). Thankfully it didn?t hit anyone. We were all quick to justify limiting Rovers ticket allocation and the segregation, but sadly shows we still have in the odd idiot within our own fan base.

Thirkill is worth £180m.  He's never taking a meaningful income from a superleague team

Was that the one where Lewis started playing a mock violin towards South stand? It certainly riled a few people around me that one.


I saw the bottle flying through the air (I sit in S5). It came from somewhere towards the back of South stand and landed somewhere in the first few front rows, so someone probably got a little drenching.


It was probably due to it being derby day, and to the way the game was unfolding, but there did seem to be more than the usual quota of over-excited people near me yesterday. Around 15 minutes into the second half, three young guys (in their early twenties I would say) suddenly came and sat in our row, no idea where they had been for the first-half. Safe to say they were 'well-oiled' with one of them 'seven sheets to the wind'. They made a lot of noise (and shouted into their phones a good deal) for around fifteen minutes before thankfully disappearing who knows where! Although I'm fairly sure they weren't the ones throwing the bottle, don't think they were capable to taking aim!


Derby day definitely brings out the worse in some elements of our fan base. Some seem to crawl out for this one game only each year. Thankfully nothing major seemed to erupt yesterday.  

Hopefully some of those who came yesterday will see we're a totally different team from last season and come again. 

Where i was sat the language of one particular, I'll call him a fan, was atrocious and embarrassing.


I was relieved to get away at the end.

I'm actually happy Wigan-Saints is SKYs 3pm game of choice cos another 2.5 hours down the pub wouldent be good for our fixture.

Overall the two games have gone off without incident though. Even with the same rules practically we could make Weet Upper reserved next time as that gives 500 more seats. I also think both clubs need to get on with having some kind of loyalty points system so that the fans who go away all the time get priority for the away ends at the MKM and Craven Park.

I might be wrong with this, so nodoubt someone on here will clarify but doesnt the ruling state the onus is on the defender to anticipate what the ball carrier will do ?. 

You've shouted us down at every opportunity from the early 2000s saying we'd never reach the dizzy heights of SL, then we'd be relegated in our first season, then we was going bust, then owning our own ground was a pipedream then we'd never get crowds over 10k crowds, we'd never get to another final, what's the latest? We'll never win a trophy?

I'm enjoying a ride I've never been on before, you may overtake us you may not, I don't particularly care. 


Rovers are building a home with every amenity and facility we need all under one roof, we are selling 11,200 tickets every week and have a board that care and a team playing for the badge and each other every week.


Rovers aren't going anywhere, and I hope Hull build a team to be up there challenging with us.