Why are excuses needed? Another win ground out.

Yet again we allow the opposition to score first.... it is very early in the season the pitches aren't great nor are the conditions, I would expect once the ground firms up and the players are more familiar with one another we will post some big scores...

We don't need excuses, the majority of this team will never have played against this type of opposition.
Big unyielding forwards, hell bent on driving you into the turf, and journeyman halfbacks pulling the strings.
We just need to learn to play what's in front of use and not underestimate any team in this division.

A big win is out there, but not until we start to cut out the basic errors and adapt.

We don't need excuses, yet you finish with the excuse about basic errors, which is exactly correct.

I didn't realise making an observation was the same as an excuse, please accept my apology for been so ignorant

Were the team in this league everyone wants to beat there going to try and ruff us up slow the play down and we've just got to get used to it but 3 wins from 3 you can't do better than that the big wins will come once the side is settled

We need to up our game or sooner or later we'll come unstuck.
We didn't respect the ball or the opposition today and we weren't prepared to put in the hard yards. We tried to score miracle try's off every play for a while and Rochdale rightly ground there way back in.
Rochdale were well organised and played with a lot of spirit.
Two points but a very poor display.

I'm not having a dig at you, but the fact you mentioned cutting out the errors is both an observation and an excuse for how poor we played,

Lisa Stansfield, Gracie Fields (nee Stansfield), Anna Friel... Your boys took one helluva beatin'!

Just got back. Boy what an awful game that was. No one covered them selfs with glory today. Poor performances all round.
Rochdale had a game plan of upsetting our rhythm today. Plenty of stops in play and plenty of niggle. And on top of that, an awful display of refereeing.
But once again, we do our usual and start poorly, and let in our customary first try of the game and that set the tone of the match. Our completion rate must have been around the 20% mark in the first half. Awful, awful, awful!!
We tried but our effort was well below what I want to see in a rovers team. We can count ourselves very lucky we didn't lose that one.
Amazing tho what we put up with as fans. Wigan beat Cronulla to become world champs while we just survive beating Rochdale. How far we have fallen.

what about poor old don Estelle

The point I was trying to make is that this is a team in development, we have some young, untried and inexperienced players who need time to find their feet at this level.
The expectation of the fans is at present, greater than the sum of the teams ability. Given time and the right coaching we will win much easier than we are at present.

But I was not trying to excuse our performances, just offer a reason why.

I can live with this kind of disjointed performance for now, just don't want to see them in August.

3 games 3 wins. 2 away from home against 1 our biggest threat in the division and the other against unbeaten form team.
Terrible start for a new team finding its way isn't it...
Shows they have far more about them than last year's team who would have lost at least one of those games.
Positives....not being bullied, keep going. Showing lots of potential. I'll judge them better after a dozen plus games.

You can't do better than win 3 from 3, even though the last 2 performances were ugly bug*ers.

In wet conditions, we are always going to need to grind out results like today against pumped up physical teams until we mature as a collective unit and gain confidence. Having 2 successive home games now will help in this regard.

Rochdale will be top half in this division this year, so a good result today in spite of the poor completion rates, poor execution and missed conversions.

Did somebody mention Lisa Stansfield? Great singer, brilliant live performer and cracking down to earth Rochdale lass. Never mind Gracie Fields. Lisa is still Rochdale's finest imo. I'd prefer her at Craven Park later in the year instead of Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott.