agree about paea,taylor played ok mini looking his age, washy did well but we missed a Kelly or connor, fair play to rovers who kept going to the end, garbett was very good and drinkwater looks the part, imo a draw would have been a fair result,

Great game for the neutral. As many have said, Hull have some class acts to come back so no need to panic.

Dont have a problem going wide early, just how we execute it, so frustrating, we go back 20 metres to make 10, so slow , no one running on to the ball, or dummy runners, I can't believe season after season , training session after training session we look no better at passing the ball. 2 average teams last night , we lots of effort, cant argue with the result , and was pleased with Hulls effort, hopefully get some bodies back and get our attack looking more slick

They’ll Make a difference I agree , but it’s a couple of quality forwards that we are missing to be challenging again . Our pack can’t competee with the top teams I don’t think . We haven’t replaced watts and Ellis , replace them with similar type players and we’d look a lot better . All we’ve done is replace them with youth , but it’s quality we need .

No we won't. Squad is 6th to 8th place. We don't have enough size or mobility in the front row and our back row is a shadow of what it was 2 years ago. 2019 is a meh year for me but with most of the squad ooc it's an opportunity to make some positive changes for next yeah

He's doesn't know, it's called a prediction. Most bookies have them bottom three too.

Radford was proved right about the bench been the difference as we looked in control while Taylor and Masi were on but Garbutt and Greenwood came on and changed the game in their favour. Paea was totally anonymous with the ball and couldn't match Masi's workrate in defence who he replaced.

Thought our goal line defence was a massive plus though as we didn't look in any trouble at all barring the time Tomkins got 1 on 1 with Sneyd off the back of Garbutts carry the play before and a wonder tackle by Bureta on Keinhorst midway through the second half.

With the ball I thought we played more expansive than expected but it was too easy to defend as Rovers simply knew Sneyd and Washbrook didn't offer a running threat so they could work off them quicker than normal giving our 3/4ers hardly any room to work with and our backrowers weren't engaging their line either.

why would crooks want to catch the ball on the last play of the game when you need to score,, and you call radford ,, you pankcake thrower

Regardless of what happened at the end, the better team won. We will clearly be better with the missing players back but we are nowhere near good enough to compete with the best in SL. (Neither are Rovers)

All of the top sides will roll our pack which looks small, old and tired. We are badly missing Ellis, Watts and the 2016 versions of Minichello and Manu. Poor recruitment and retention has rendered this season transitional. Paea has been a very poor addition and last night he was awful. Minichello is finished and Thompson is a Championship player.


I don't actually think that Schofield's and Peacock's comments were too far off the mark. We look like a team that will finish bottom four and so do Rovers.

Thursday night will be a real test of where we are.

Connor will obviously make us better but Cas are a better side than Rovers and I can't see anything but another loss. Visits to Wigan and Hudds coming next and the pressure is going to pile up on Radford and Pearson.


The season could be over very quickly indeed and the "dynasty" has well and truly ended. Our squad needs to be overhauled which is a pretty depressing reality.

Only if positive players are available, and the player pool isnt massive either.

The recruitment/ retention policy will make this another “transitional” year.
Fans patience will be in short supply due to how last year ended.

Rovers aren’t that good IMO (which makes last night even more frustrating) and Cas will be a stern test.

Yep, very depressing but not at all surprising to many of us. It's only one game but our pack is just a shadow of what it was merely 2 and 3 seasons ago. We have gone a long way backwards in a very short space of time. A bit of luck in the CC to look forward to perhaps but I can't remember ever looking forward to a season less than I have this one.