is this what we can expect for the foreseeable future, hull need to rethink match prep or something for derbies. they always say that the prep is just the same as for any other match, well maybe is needs to be shaken up. are we letting the nerves get on top of the players? or are they not being fired up properly? i dont knew. i just want it sorting coz im sick to death of the whole thing. gentle is a good coach imo but he's falling into the same trap as all of our recent coaches of not executing derbies effectively.

I'm pretty sure the difference in enthusiasm between their players and ours is down to Hudgell's influence. Rovers's gates would undoubtedly decline if they began losing in a convincing manner to FC on a regular basis.

A whole portion of their success in their Super League era has been to spite Hull FC. Hudgell knows this as he's instigated the main part of it. So taking into consideration this coupled with his own pride, I wouldn't be surprised that soon as a player arrives at Hull KR, they're immediately indoctrinated in how important the derby games are for the club.

So what I'm saying is, I'm not sure what can be done.

Shaun Wane seems to do the same thing for Wigan. Which seems to work for them as they compete with all other teams, contrary to Rovers. Maybe we should copy what Wigan do before a derby?

I think we've won six of the last eleven competitive derbies and we outplayed them three times last season.

In all fairness we outplayed them under Gentle last season in all 3 fixtures, so I'm not sure why we have played so poorly in the 2 games this year. The Easter game this season was slightly understandable, but Saturday's performance was very disappointing considering our current form and the availability of players.

thats them. im more concerned about our approach. i think we show a grate deal of professionalism in bottling these games

agree and it should have been 3 from 3 last year. and this what hurts, coz i thought we'd tuned a corner but this year clearly show that we havnt

Well it would have been 3 from 3 last year if it wasn't for that useless Ganson. Whatever happened to him?

we don't have to be at our best to beat that sh-t

I thought our defence was on par with our current level, no complaints there but our handling let us down a lot, Horney normally plays well in Derbies but had a stinker and was involved in bombing a couple of tries. Yeamo also dropped a couple of bad ones. I think in some respects, especially for the interception they made for the first try, we were trying to push the pass when it wasn't there.

And we still won! Even without Greens try we should have been two up as it was never a penalty on O'Meley.

Sooner be beating the likes of Wire,Leeds and Wigan than Rovers...although saturday was bloody good.

Why? It is just the same as any other match. Remind me how many more points you get for a derby win?

Maybe we should approach it as our cup final.

Said the same to a Wire fan on Sunday. We need to be looking at beating the bigger teams AS WELL as Rovers etc

i'm more looking forward to us testing ourselves against leeds next time out than i am about games against rovers

but against leeds next week we'll probably play with much more composure. win or loose the team will hopefully stick to a game plan and the team that executes it best will probably win. and if we were mature and peasant in the derbies i think we'd win quite easily. cant believe that people are willing to accept that we are not at the races for theses games. bragging rights aside the 2 points are important.