It wasn't the best we've played all season but it was a good performance.
If we play like that at Leeds next week I believe we will win.

Fair question.
Morgan proberbly meant best in terms of sticking to the gameplan

I'll tell you what we did do well, we defended the usual suspects very well. Manu, Gleeson, Yeaman and Briscoe had very little of the usual success that they have had against us in the past and that, for me, won us the game.

We played well enough to beat the current 8th best team in Super League. No more, no less. Today hasn't papered over the cracks that are still there for all to see.

Well done on the win. A fair result.

Looks like it could be Hull or Rovers for 8th and a possible late summer trip to Perpignan.

Two closely matched sides I thought, chufted to bits with the win but neither side looked particulary brilliant. What I was pleased about was seeing glimpses of that Rovers 'spirit' back in the side, they looked hungry for it today. Well done lads!

it was a good hard game, a typical S/L derby, not much skill but plenty of effort. Rovers looked like they wanted it more to me. Ganson did his best to let the game flow IMO, missed a bit but was fair to both sides. Briscoe, Cockayne and Colbon made some great yards today, Wheeldon was very good too. Briscoe M.O.M for me.

the game was close but the quality was poor, 1 fan decided to throw a bottle which is obviously wrong but a reckon there was a few thousand that decided to cheer and clap when longy sufferd a serious injury

Let's not forget the crowd here espec the east stand that's the most vocal we have been all season and it really lifted the team I thought oh and the east stand roof lol

Whats your tipple - Bitter? Who is worried about quality when you get a derby victory - quality not as important as the bragging rights

Fair question, but the key element you're not taking into account is intensity. The higher intensity then the lower scoring the game in most cases.

Yes, the first game of the season Rovers scored tries against FC like shelling peas but the game wasn't high intensity as such like today. Likewise due to Bentham's disgraceful "refereeing" on Good Friday which resulted in us being on the end of a ridiculous 5-1 penalty count by half time so a stop/start affair in which we didn't see much of the ball meant for a game with less intensity.

Today we had only one penalty in the first half and more trading of sets even though Rovers made more errors. And the reason FC looked clueless in attack was due to Rovers defensive intensity - similar to the play-off game last season when FC's only points came from a Briscoe try (which wasn't actually a try because he was in touch).

I suppose what I'm saying is that Rovers can simply defend to level of intensity that FC can simply not do anything about - even when you are at full-strength with the exception of Phelps and part of this is down to the fact that FC's players are no where near as good as most of FC's fans think they are which is why FC won't finish in the play-offs this year.

Rovers scoring only three tries isn't exactly worth bragging about but when you consider we had Fox, Webster, Clinton and Watts all on the sidelines, not to mention the salary cap space used for Mason, then it's fair and reasonable to say that a full-strength Rovers side against a full-strength Rovers side with an equal penalty count would probably result in a 20+ points difference in the favour of Rovers every time.

Rovers defended really well today and I really feel that Morgan's squad rotation policy this season is just starting to bear fruit because the players look in nick.

mrs b will have a field day bookmarking that one

Ha ha, she'll bookmark it and bring it up in season 2023 or something