Will he have to give Stevo his watch back

Clickety Click - just the 66 missed tackles from Rovers last night. Averaging 51 per game currently.

Sheens was the HKR coaching genius until they unceremoniously dumped him
Wonder how many weeks until they start grumbling about their new messiah

Bottle throwing at Leeds as well.

No surprise after the behaviour at the kcom last week

Special mentions to Will Maher whio missed nine tackles last night and Matthew Storton who missed a third of his tackle attempts.

It doesn't quite add up. Multimillionaire owner up for sinking millions into the ground purchase but not for bringing in real quality in the pack to seal safety and push for a play off place. Even if there's no relegation this year, not sure how a similar outcome position wise as last year would enable a big recruitment campaign. I'm sure it's all in hand.

The ground deal isn't looking quite so sweet now from what I've heard.

Sheens picked us up when we were at a really low ebb and laid quite a few ghosts to rest in securing promotion and then SL survival. It all got a bit grandfatherly last year but my appreciation for what he did in ‘17 and ‘18 remains as strong as ever.

Smith has got plenty of time and good will. We know we’re under cap and struggle to attract the calibre of player we’d like, and that without the likes of Masoe and Garbutt we’re going to lose the yardage battle most weeks - lowest average gain per carry in the league as of the most recently updated stats. None of that is his fault.

It was a good interview with Smith on blunderside after the game. He knows it wont all be sweetness and light this year but they will stay up without any dramas. Toronto will be bottom by some way

Cas have lost in France. Great opportunity to open a (very small) bit of daylight between us and our playoff rivals.

Didn't just lose, took quite a beating. As you say, a great chance for us tomorrow to make hay.

While the sun shines

If it ever does!!

Always on the righteous HR

i always say this - rovers would be better off putting the same effort into all their games. Instead they get up for games against us, but then always seem to be unable to replicate it in the games that they should be winning or at least competing in. if anyone has too much time on their hands i would love to see how their games go following a derby match

A big if, but if we win tomorrow we will be referred to as the early season pace setters. Which is nice.

Even if we lose by under ten points we'll stay top.

Didn’t they have a record defeat (Wigan?) three days after a derby victory?

Excluding play-offs and middle 8s, Rovers SL record today stands at 133 wins, 10 draws and 174 defeats (.435 as they’d have it in the US).

Against Hull FC in regular season SL fixtures Rovers record is 17 wins and 20 defeats or .459.

In the next SL game following a derby Rovers record is 16 wins and 19 defeats or .457.

There are two fewer ‘next games’, as I haven’t counted them when they fell in the next season e.g. the last derby of 2008 was in the final round of that season

There’s no obvious pattern I noticed beyond a tendency for Rovers to win more derbies and more next games when they were better. For example, under Morgan, Rovers were 9-6 up in regular season derbies and had a 8-6 record in next games. Since then it has been 8-14 and 8-13, respectively.



We did and then beat Saints the game after that. However, given that Wigan did the double that year, it wasn’t an obvious game to target at the expense of taking two points from a more winnable match versus the 2013 edition of Hull FC.

Last year was quite a miserable season at both clubs for matches played immediately following the 3 derbies as neither gained a win. After the first the points conceded were reasonable but in the subsequent 2 Hull shipped 102 points and Rovers 106.

Hull lost home and away against St Helens with Rovers going down to Wigan away and home to Warrington.

I think that might have been the year we backed up a derby defeat with a win away at a good Warrington team (leaving Hull fans asking why they couldn’t have played like that against Rovers!)
Trouble is with the Easter fixtures, you don’t get to revel in a good Friday victory when you then go and get beat on the Easter Monday.

Especially when you concede 84!

They’ve done away with the Easter double round this year, iirc?

So only Huddersfield are unbeaten with Wakefield beating Warrington today. Seen some Wire fans calling for Price to go.

Correct, a normal round of fixtures save the Good Friday games being lunchtime and mid afternoon. No games on Easter Monday.

They were gash at the end of 2019 though which is why