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I think Litten did a lot of good things just feel he needs to be better feeding his wingerNot too downhearted either. Some silly errors some disruption. We’re still on the way up and Rovers were very good. We will have learned that Cust was a big miss, Moy needs more time, Ese Ese is great, Pryce is a good acquisition, like Eseh, Ropana is human etc etc 

I do like the idea of cust at 6 and pryce at full back once balmforthnis fit and can spell burough off the bench. Gives us much more threat than we had yesterday

The issue for mine, concerning Rapana was his reluctance to jump for the high ball, I wonder if he has a knee issue, which is causing pain on landing.. If this appears to be the case, maybe swapping positions with Litten?KR's passing from both Hiku & Gildart to create their tries was sublime.
I felt disappointed, because when Lewis went off, I really thought we had a great opportunity to win the game...
Going forward, I thought Ashworth could do a job, on the left edge, and maybe Aydin on the right?

Think losing Lane yesterday affected us a lot more than I initially thought it would. Not only meant that we lost our only recognised second rower for the game, but by moving Ashworth there we also lost our impact off the bench, which was huge noticeable when the interchanges happened.
All said in hindsight, but we'd maybe have been better moving Chamberlain to second row, Rapana to centre and using Moy at full back since he was sat on the bench. Fully understand trying to minimise the number of player movements and at that time we had no idea Rapana was going to go on to have his worst game of the year. Moy also looks a bit ropey this year, so things could have ended even worse, but I like Moy's pace and that's something Rapana just doesn't have. Moy could have been there in support of Pryce. 
Obviously again, all said in hindsight.


Also need Cust as interchange hooker next week. I do like Bourouh but we don't want to flog him for 80 next week. Need to start getting some fresh legs on at 9. Around the hour mark yesterday when we had all the momentum would have been a perfect time to get another 9 on to start running from dummy half.

I was about to post the same thing. We looked like we didn't handle the occasion well.
If we are honest we had hope rather than expectation.


Considering we had 3 extra days rest we looked slow at most facets of the game and tired imo.


Too many had an average game. Things can only get better. Fingers crossed for a good response at Warrington.


KR are a bloody good team so no disgrace. They still have to navigate past Saints, Warrington or Catalan to win it imo.

It was pretty much as I expected. But a big positive for me is that they’ve been conceding less that 8 points a game and we put 18 on them.

I thought we did ok and it's where we are at, we aren't nowhere near ready yet but we are showing plenty of grit but still need to cut the errors out, think if we'd have scored at 0.0 things might have been slightly different but still encouraging times ahead for me. 

A couple of key turning points were rovers scoring off that god awful kick for their 2nd try and then us failing to score off the pryce break on half time.  If they don't score there or we score off the break I think it's a different game but these small margins are what win and lose games.  rovers were much better at exploiting them than us

There's a good after match press conference with JC on the club youtube feed.  The big man is clearly disappointed but honest, both of which are good for me.  We're not a million miles away and if we can get everyone on the filed for a few weeks I think we're a match for most in the comp.  Very encouraging as we're miles ahead of where I thought we'd be but maybe a reflection on how poor the standard is in the comp overall

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