The Dec Patron Derby.

So after a bitterly disappointing peformance against Widnes, a chance to right a few wrongs? Or will it be a case of this is where things start to quickly unravel for us with such a tough set of opening league fixtures to come.

Swinton are absolutely no mugs. Anything else than a top performance will result in a defeat. Swinton come into this game unbeaten which included wins against Widnes and big spending Oldham (who have already beaten Fax)

Selection will be interesting. I'm praying to God we don't see Hallas and Flanagan at Hooker.

McGowan
Oakes
Brand
Myers
Tafua
Gill
Gaskell
Lawrence
Lilley
Okoro
Davies
Butler
Appo

Gill
Smith
Arundel
Peposhi

Gaskell is still unavailable apparently.

That's a shame. Have to be Lilley at 7 then and George at 9

EOC onfirmed in his interview Gaskell should have hopefully trained yesterday.

Still sounds doubtful. I'm sure Swinton will be targeting him.

Don"t like the idea of going into this game with just 3 recognised props. Injuries starting to bite.

Well thank god we're half way through the season, with playoffs guaranteed by this point....

If Gaskell is fit he has to play. I'd go with:

McGowan
Myers
Brand
Gill
Taufua
Gaskell
Lilley
Lawrence
Johnson
Okoro
Butler
Arundel
Davies
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Appo
Smith
Jowitt
Hallas

Jowitt and Hallas on the bench sort of negative impact players

A bit like mixing anti pasta with pasta?

Short notice but I've got 2 free tickets to this game as I've been struck down by Norovirus. Happy to send them across to anyone.

Need to stand up and be counted today, another defeat today and our season won’t look half as promising. Thin in the forwards, it will be a tough test, let’s see how we do!

Scrappy game where our discipline is letting the Lioms back into it. We lead 9-6 at half time.

Great win that after last week's non performance.

A win is a win I get that, it gets us into the semi final. But I just can't see how EO wants this team to play im not excited about how where playing at all. I fear against the top championship teams as well, Widnes and Swinton aren't the strongest of teams and we've lost to one and scrambled over the line against another.

McGowan injured too.

Failed HIA. With no game next week he should hopefully be fit for the opening night against Wakefield.

Well we are into the semi finals which perhaps luckily isn't until May, so we have time to improve. And we will need to see a massive improvement if we are going to make the final. More worrying that we face Wakefield in just under 2 weeks time in the league.. I fear that could be a tough old evening on current form.

Anyone seen Mick’s comments re the ref failing to stop play when McGowan went down injured?

The response form the RFL is that Mikalauskas wasn’t miked up to the touch judges as “they’ve changed suppliers”. That alone is a poor response to what was a player welfare issue.

However, I thought both touch judges came on and he waved play on before Lee Greenwood managed to get him to stop it.

He should be ssuspended from refereeing for that.

Swinton appear to be extremely salty about some of the calls from yesterdays game. They've posted a passive-aggressive tweet highlighting all of the incidents that were missed by the officials.

We were terrible yesterday..
Squeezing past Keighley then Swinton is a sad indicator of where the club currently is..
We have actually got worse since Wood took over from Chalmers.
Don't forget we actually beat Leeds in the CC.
And had the base of a future SL team, Mini now been KR captain.
All it would have taken was swapping JK for a better coach.

What you on about?
We finished 3rd last season and got to a semi final
We are now in a Semi Final of a cup.
Chalmers took us out of Odsal didn't pay players pensions and nearly messed up getting out of League 1.