HKR try, ref should have awarded Bulls try - this season has started in typical Bulls favourites style!!

Macani leaps higher than Moss to score from a crossfield kick from Lilley. Touch judge isn't in a good position and calls a knock on even though ref was going to give it.

Hull KR go up the field in the next set and Lunt goes for the line. Offloads to Greenwood who scores. Ellis converts.

Hull KR 24-12 Bradford.

But we are the RFL's 'pets', remember

Sorry. Donaldson scored it.

Hull KR go 70m and score. Blair to Minns, to Shaw. Back inside to Minns who scores under the sticks.

Grrrrr another HKR try

The touch judge was stood right next to it, you can't be at the game. Leading up to that disallowed try, rovers should of had a penalty for a blatant second effort in the tackle only for him to give Bradford a pen for rovers been offside from the following kick

HKR score again
30-12, half time.
Not good, but much better than expected,
COYB

Half time 30-12

Sounds like plenty of effort and no small amount of skill, but we've still leaked 30 points...

Great effort so far. Just far too light in middle as expected. Every Hull KR try seems to be up middle and pretty Comfortable, though we have caused them issues.

Conceding two tries in the last 3 minutes of the half is criminal. Was actually looking respectable before that.

But didnt put his flag up immediately! cos he wasnt sure; Ref was going to give it - then Linesman belatedly puts flag up??


- dont disagree that was wrong decision - but that didnt rob HKR of any points did it?

It's a game of small margins, twice back to back tries for us too. It's a momentum thing.

Rochdale stuffing Dewsbury 22-0!
So our next game isnt going to be easy

Other HT scores

Halifax 6 Fev 16
Oldham 4 Sheffield 6
Rochdale 22 Dewsbury 0
Swinton 16 London 10

Looks like we'll be 14 points behind Rochdale, the team that we seem to be thinking we might catch.

Lose to them next week and we'd be 16 points behind. Yikes!

Just what hull KR needs today. More decisions.

Well that we'll never know, but rovers have scored pretty much every time we've got near the line - a penalty would have put us on your line. Bradford deserve a lot of credit for their performance so far though, they've slowed the game and look good near our line. The championship is certainly a lot slower then SL, and we are gonna have to get use to that.

Very happy with this. Didn't have a team 3 weeks ago. Got a lot of young kids playing here. And they have showed up really well. Effort is there and I feared an absolute pasting in the first half when I saw the teamsheets.

Bradford have made 4 errors with an 86% completion rate. Not bad from a young side with hardly any pre-season and 4 lads who are new this week to the team.

One key moment in the game has changed the tide and that was the Macani disallowed try. That would have put us at 16/18 points. And got the ball back. But good effort from the lads!

Smack Him Jimmy - no game will be easy for us mate haha!

Hull KR score through James Greenwood. Ellis converts.

Hull KR then break through with quick play Moss backs up. Gives it to Heffernan who is brought down. Crossfield kick is tapped back by Shaw but ref calls a knock on from Thomas.

JJR puts a good tackle in and Hull KR drop the ball. Scrum for Bradford.

Yes we do know, That specific decision if it had gone your way was worth zero points; yes you could have gone on to score, but that specific wrong decision cost you nothing. Period.
However the wrong decision against us cost us at least 4 points. Simple.

You will go on to win as expected, but wrong decisions dont help either of our teams.
I've got nothing against HKR, they have several good (ex-Bradford) players.

Another two HKR tries since second half kicked off.

42-12

Inside ball to Quinlan who breaks, draws Thomas and passes to Ellis who scores and converts.

Hull KR 42-12 Bradford.

Quinlan and Ellis are causing us problems; Moss seems quiet.

But you aren't playing a good championship side. It's a team with 10-15 first teamed replaced with kids.

He's wasted on the wing. Could have stayed and shone at Fullback for us!!

Another try for HKR, Quinlan, 46-12