I'm beginning to lose patience with Roberts.
I am hoping he will at least turn out be a Trent Barratt.
A lazy overweight git that came good.

In contrast...Ratchford, I've said it so many times. You need your best player in a position he can get his hands on the ball.

Can't argue with a word of that, rd

He's on one leg.

Did we sign him injured?

He's a dreadful player. The lad can't pass a ball.

I'll watch it again to make sure but in the sets we scored the two tries I don't believe he touched the ball.....
And then in the following set where we had a chance to level the game his only touch was a last tackle option of shipping the ball on to Murdoch Masila.


He has zero invention and off the cuff style of play. And at the moment is struggling with the most basic of rugby league core skills.


I fear he's going to add to the list of astonishingly poor aussie half backs to have played for this club

I’m going to give him a bit longer,unlike some of the ones I’ve called out he as not had long enough for me yet.

So bloody disappointed in him. Thought he would be a good signing (and still might) but looked seriously off the pace tonight.

Ratchford should be stand off, sadly we dont have the backs to shuffle around to make that happen. Unless Jack Johnson is fit and well, I wouldnt mess with the wings/ centres we started with tonight. Ratchford at 6 looked great for me.

It's not started that well but I'm not going to write Roberts off yet.

Robert's was/is capable, the highlight reel shows that. He can hardly run presently.

He needs time.

That was the opposite of his game today. The boy WILL come good.

Roberts WILL come good...give him time and conditions. Also Livett does not need lumping in with T King and Patton...Harvey has brains and ability.

Don't give a fook. If Peter Deakin was still alive, I'm sure he'd get on the phone and persuade a 51 year old Allan Langer to put his boots back on, and do a better job than the present number 7.

From what I've "seen", Moran might as well have set fire to Roberts' contract wages. He looks no better than an A.N. Other from the Friday night A-team games at Wilderspool. A fraud.

Seriously needs to buck his ideas up. A 51 year old Langer would look more dangerous.
No. I take that back. A Ken Kelly fast approaching his 70's, would offer more.
An unfit quality player, will show SOME flashes of quality. I've seen the square root of fook all from him.
To think, there are people in Australia who were gutted that he's come to SL. Are they taking the slash?

At the moment, he's a fraud. Nothing more, nothing less.

As you can tell, I'm more than a bit miffed from him.

He's had six training sessions and struggles with his knee. In Baltic conditions in Hull it was never going to be his breakthrough display. It will come with Roberts and the rest of the team. Despite the result i saw very good signs, we'll get better and better. If Roberts is still playing like that in may then he can do one.

Three matches in and half a dozen training sessions under his belt and we’re already packing him back to Australia, ala Monaghan and King.

He’s been average at best and may well not turn out to be the answer to our half back issues, but how about we give him a chance?

I'd rather him work harder for 15 mins and get a sub rest than 80 mins of self preservation.
Like I said...I'm hoping he's a Trent Barratt 2.

I’ve had a hernia for the past 5mths + in that time only been the gym about a dozen times but bet I’ve put more effort in than he has from what I’ve seen.

We're not sending him back, a la king and Monaghan. Monaghan won a few MoMs in his first few games (@ no 7 may I add) and King looked sharpish.

The trouble is, we've seen sod all from Roberts. Nothing more than you could get from Crosfield's current number 7, but we're paying a King's ransom for the "privilege".

He's fat
He looks like a 15 year old kid on work experience. Shrugs his shoulders when you ask him to do something.

He's giving us nothing.

That's a little harsh Lefty!

The 7 at Crosfields is okay.

He’s got a long way to go before I judge him. He had no pre-season, he’s not got into his rhtythm with the plays or the team yet, he’s not fit yet and even if he had all those things in place it’s still be too early to judge.

Not like you to sit on the fence PC

I’m with you on this. I’m confident we are going to come good with Roberts at 7 once he’s fit. The conditions were unreal last night with a wind-chill of -10 or something and he’s never experienced anything like that before, especially whilst unfit and in a team that hasn’t clicked.

Let’s see what happens by the split. I’ve seen enough to know we won’t be easy beats this season and when we eventually click we will be a good team. Whether we do anything of significance this year is debatable, but I do believe we will one of the top teams next year.

Two tries apiece at Hull last night, playing away to a team that everyone believes will be a top team this year. We didn’t play well in attack yet we didn’t get out-scored. We WILL get better.

This team will struggle to make the 8’s this season.Predictable in attack as evidenced by our points average,boring to watch with 5 drives + then kick,to many individuals not upto SL standard + a half back partnership that must be the worst in the league at the moment.It’s Going be a long road back to the top.

Who will it be next week Dickie ? You have already had a "slagging" of Ratchford - Atkins - Russell - Patton & now Roberts. Give it a rest. Get behind your team.

You won't find me knocking the best player in our team. Find me a Ratchford knocking or why don't you shut your trap.

Atkins - Russell - Patton & now Roberts. 4 out of 5 ain't bad.

Furthermore I think I've been the most supporting of Russell out of this forum this season.
I bigged up Sims and Atkins as our best prop and outside back last season.
I don't even recall me having a dig at Parton. Put it this way, I'd play him before Roberts atm. However I wouldn't play him at hb ahead of Ratchford and Brown...


Have you been sniffing something BWW?