Not gonna happen..., i know nobody wants to hear it and you are all free to put your fingers in your ears, but if Rovers , who are very likely to lose at Huddersfield , do not beat Castleford (convincingly hopefully) then we are well in the relegation mix... and a long hard season looms ahead...


Regardless, worst opening day Rovers performance since 2007, i.e in SL...

Have some of you heard yourselves?

Yeah we got a second half lesson from one of the best teams in the country. We also matched them for the first forty and were playing with a 17 who are still more or less strangers on a rugby pitch. Okay it's disappointing to go down like we did today but a relegation battle? Get a grip.

FC lost to Leeds last season by 36-6 and still managed 6th so why the panic?

this is about Rovers, not FC for a change

Coat? It was august mate. Coat wearing in the summer may be all the rage in cosmopolitan leeds but us tough Yorkshire men don't don a coat until September at the earliest and then only a lightweight one

So other than the 7 tries to 1 mullering it was pretty much rovers' day?

I thought our starting pack was pretty poor, Leeds to me was on top for the majority of the game. They made easy yards and their classy backs finished it off! I was more impressed when the Walker brothers and Green came on in our pack, this really shouldn't be the case but it was.

Wonder if there would be so many Hull fans on here if they hadn't scraped a win?

It was a disappointing second half,but it was also the first game for most of our forwards,our scrum half,and against A vasty experienced Leeds team.Lets not get too worried.Also,can't stand the smug git,but thought Silverwood had an excellent game.

I thought most of your forwards had played V Hull and Hudds? A lot being made of the lack of a pre season and players being "underdone" but realistically, you had the same number of competitive games as Hull had. Most of our 1st team squad only played one or 2 halfs in pre season. Huddersfield only played one game I think and it didn't seem to do them much harm against wigan.

Three words seemed to describe today - lack of fitness.

That can only improve.

Wigan and Warrington list heavily in the first round. Will they be panicing? Of course not, and neither should we.

Wigan and Warrington had key players out, Rovers only had gleeson out.

Cant understand why lovegrove didnt play, offers more in attack than any of your other backrowers.

lovegrove can't tackle

I thought that too, much as it pains me to say it.

Lovegrove is in bad books with CS . Bad influence is that cockerel !!!

Warrington weren't really understrength Paul wood and Harrison out that's it