I don’t want to tempt fate ahead of facing a strong team away from home with us now struggling for numbers and doubtless more than we’d like playing busted. But what the hell, we’re in the play-offs for the first time since 2013. A lot has happened since then. Really… a lot! So we should enjoy this, we’ve paid enough up front for it emotionally. I wanted us to take a shot at 8th… just take a shot at it. Relative to expectation we may well have had the best season of anybody in SL this year. Direction of travel is huge.

Where did it all go right? Difficult to say. If you’d have told me 6th pre-season, I’d have assumed the new signings must be about the have great seasons. But, no not really. Hall was consistently very good and the others had moments to greater and lesser degrees - but they weren’t transformational. A couple bordered on the slightly disappointing, tbh. Culture, an intangible that is consistently overemphasised in analyses of this stuff (imo), is nonetheless real and important. Ours seems to have changed, and by goodness it needed to. One step back has, at the 3rd or 4th time of asking, finally been followed by two forwards.

Where next? Well, I think we can definitely recalibrate our hopes a bit. You never know whether any step is reaching a peak until later. Can we kick on again and go even higher with this squad and style of play? That we’ve played fewer games than anybody but look as knackered as anyone is worth acknowledging. And we can be knocked off our stride by a team turning up the intensity and physicality still. But we do have a stride rather than stumbling along, and a foundation to build on.

Rhinos fan here - just wanted to say congrats for the win over Wire, and a really competitive season.

You’re shaping up nicely for next year too, Coote is still quality and you’ve an enthusiastic and well-coached side there.

Best of luck against Cats on Thursday.

Well 2021 finished for Hull KR let’s hope 2022 is has good or better

After a surprisingly enjoyable season, TS says we are going to have to get bigger, faster, fitter, and smarter. Yep, that would be great. Be interested to see who else, if anyone, will be coming in. Still think we need more size. The stadium purchase will be critical, fingers crossed it happens.

Pretty sure every coach will be saying that there team need to be bigger, faster, fitter and smarter next season, but in our case its especially true, if we don't want this season to be a flash in the pan.
The real good thing about Rovers at the minute is that everything seems to be so positive, thanks to TS and DM on the field and NH and PL off the pitch, its hard not to be a happy fan.

Well to date they have Tom Garret coming in who stands at around 6 and a half feet tall, plus the ex ST Helens forward who is also around that size. Plus, I heard on Friday night that Rovers have at least one more big prop lined up, so we shall see.