Your concerns have been subsequently passed onto Brian McDermott for his due consideration!



IMO its a tad harsh to you to judge how a club will go during an entire season based on just One pre-season friendly though?


On a more personal note and IF i recall correctly, didn't Fev start last season very poorly in the Northern Rail cup, and did they not even qualify for the play-offs?

Judging by your thought process shown on here....

Who'd have thought that Fev would have then gone on to win the league and only losing 2 league games in the process?

Judging by your thought process yet again.............

Surely any side that can win the league by a clear 6 points and who only lost 2 league games that season, should be good enough to simply turn up on GF day and win the Big One should it not?

Shame that Halifax had other ideas isn't it?



That One game mattered for you, but sadly the One pre-season friendly that you cared to highlight did not matter One bit for us



but do feel free to revel in it if you must!

Leeds dowfall was there halfbacks never took them round the field

Nowt to see round that field other than terraced houses mate, theres nowt for our half backs to show them

Same round headingley if i remember rightly.
I dont think there is anything to read into it for Leeds fans, they just underestimated how much progress Rovers have made under DP big time, dont forget we scored more points against Warrington in there challenge cup run last season than any other club including Leeds

Team Today - 1 Ben Jones-Bishop 2 Michael Coady 3 Lee Smith 4 Kallum Watkins 5 Ryan Hall 6 Stevie Ward 7 Rory Kettlewell 8 Ian Kirke 9 Paul McShane 10 Luke Burgess 11 Chris Clarkson 12 Jay Pitts 13 Callum Casey Subs (all used) 14 Matty Nicholson 15 Liam Hood 16 Aston Wilson 17 Jamel Chisholm 18 George Elliott 19 Tom Carroll 20 Kyle Amor 21 Jared Stewart Match Report: therhinos.co.uk/rugby/15769.php

Team Today - 1 Ben Jones-Bishop 2 Michael Coady 3 Lee Smith 4 Kallum Watkins 5 Ryan Hall 6 Stevie Ward 7 Rory Kettlewell 8 Ian Kirke 9 Paul McShane 10 Luke Burgess 11 Chris Clarkson 12 Jay Pitts 13 Callum Casey Subs (all used) 14 Matty Nicholson 15 Liam Hood 16 Aston Wilson 17 Jamel Chisholm 18 George Elliott 19 Tom Carroll 20 Kyle Amor 21 Jared Stewart Match Report: therhinos.co.uk/rugby/15769.php

still, you managed to pay £100,000 for one of our so called dead beats

sore loser aren't you ?

So do you always take that many fans to a cup final day ? and why did so many have to leave early ?

Dont know

Your Cup Final wasn't high on my priorities

There were still plenty of us left at F/T so lets not get giddy and start exaggerating what really happened.

Wish I did leave 10 minutes early mind, Post Office Road is ridiculous to get away from.

Nowt to worry about is there really? a young side all learning, nah, no worries at all, quite promising actually. Ben Jones-Bishop stood out.

I thought Leeds very disappointing this afternoon. This was clearly Leeds's second string with a few first team additions, but presumably these are the players expected to fill any gaps caused by injury this season. For example, I didn't see anyone who looked capable of filling Burrow's, McGuire's or Peacocks boots. They were ordinary in the extreme given that they are full time and Fev are part time. At least two of their tries seemed to be courtesy of Mr Silverwood feeling sorry for them. Any flowing football was played by Fev. I'm not sure how well we'll do this season without Briggs though.

Which 2 tries were courtesy of lumpawood?
Burrow ,Mcguire and Peacock are elite players at our club and no-one will/would "fill their boots" but the squads versatillity will allow us to get by without them i.e Sinfield is at 6 for Mcguire and Cross will take a lot of the workload that JP gets through allowing Kylie and co to go back to doing their "stints".
If by bad luck we also lost Burrow then Webb would go to 7 with Bjb who is more than capable would fill in at FB.
By the way don't be so harsh on Fev we were disappointing partly because Fev started like a house on fire ,never let us settle and punished every mistake we made.

We kept Leeds scoreless first half - and they had the advantage of the slope.
Certainly one of Leeds tries was courtesy of Silverwood, the Leeds player got to his feet and was about the play the ball when Silverwood awarded them a try. Laughable but not funny.

That was the Refs fault in the 1st place Hood was clearly over the line and when he did'nt get the try he got up to play it and whilst getting up the doylem with the whistle noticed he'd got it down afterall hardly a gift when the bell end had got it wrong in the 1st place.

with foresight, you could have just come for the second half as well

so, as i see it, you reckon it was our cup final, maybe so, having the pleasure of playing you

but we won .... end of

I wish every thread was like that. It would be amazing.

Or fans could discuss the result of the game and why it happened.



If we would have fielded our strongest side, we would have won. End of init.

If that dog'd have run a bit faster it'd have caught that rabbit.

How come theres one thread on the Fev board with 0 replies celebrating their amazing win today.

Oh yeah, its cos the other idiots realised that it was only a friendly vs a team with an average age of less than 20?

Quote ="Sam Buca II"How come theres one thread on the Fev board with 0 replies celebrating their amazing win today. Oh yeah, its cos the other idiots realised that it was only a friendly vs a team with an average age of less than 20?'" Because there is life outside rlfans www.totalrl.com/forums/index.php ... ne-rovers/

Quote ="Sam Buca II"How come theres one thread on the Fev board with 0 replies celebrating their amazing win today. Oh yeah, its cos the other idiots realised that it was only a friendly vs a team with an average age of less than 20?'" Because there is life outside rlfans www.totalrl.com/forums/index.php ... ne-rovers/

No doubt about that, but you didn't, maybe you thought you didn't need to ... never underestimate

Is Ross Divorty of Fev related to Gary Divorty?

Quote ="Damo-Leeds"Team Today - 1 Ben Jones-Bishop 2 Michael Coady 3 Lee Smith 4 Kallum Watkins 5 Ryan Hall 6 Stevie Ward 7 Rory Kettlewell 8 Ian Kirke 9 Paul McShane 10 Luke Burgess 11 Chris Clarkson 12 Jay Pitts 13 Callum Casey Subs (all used) 14 Matty Nicholson 15 Liam Hood 16 Aston Wilson 17 Jamel Chisholm 18 George Elliott 19 Tom Carroll 20 Kyle Amor 21 Jared Stewart Match Report: therhinos.co.uk/rugby/15769.php'" Even if you take out Smith and Hall from that list, there will still be 2 or 3 of that team in the first team squad at any one time and if some of your geriatric 1st teamers pick up injuries it could be as many as 5 or 6. Leeds have a fantastic 1st team who can beat anyone in the league but I would be a little worried by the lack of depth if yesterday is anything to go by.

Quote ="Damo-Leeds"Team Today - 1 Ben Jones-Bishop 2 Michael Coady 3 Lee Smith 4 Kallum Watkins 5 Ryan Hall 6 Stevie Ward 7 Rory Kettlewell 8 Ian Kirke 9 Paul McShane 10 Luke Burgess 11 Chris Clarkson 12 Jay Pitts 13 Callum Casey Subs (all used) 14 Matty Nicholson 15 Liam Hood 16 Aston Wilson 17 Jamel Chisholm 18 George Elliott 19 Tom Carroll 20 Kyle Amor 21 Jared Stewart Match Report: therhinos.co.uk/rugby/15769.php'" Even if you take out Smith and Hall from that list, there will still be 2 or 3 of that team in the first team squad at any one time and if some of your geriatric 1st teamers pick up injuries it could be as many as 5 or 6. Leeds have a fantastic 1st team who can beat anyone in the league but I would be a little worried by the lack of depth if yesterday is anything to go by.

yeah Ross is Garys son