Site was down for a while, so I'll start it off now we are back.

I thought the effort yesterday was heroic. No half-backs, no hooker (I missed Drew going off, as I was still queuing outside due to the admirable HKR organisation), but yet they made a real good fist of it. We were always up against it, but I don't think anyone should complain about the team from yesterday.

Having said that, the only negative for me was Tony Martin's lack of punch early on when attacking. There were at least two occasions early on when we were attacking the line and a well-timed pass would have put someone in. Instead, he went for the grubber, and each time it went to nothing. Briscoe is too good to miss those. When he did pass it, Hendo went in.

But Martin is a centre, not a playmaker, and so I accept that maybe he was playing it cautious.

The main negative was HKR's abysmal treatment of away fans. Sell people twenty quid tickets and then pack the away end with home fans so they have to go into the £10 end. Oh yes, and only let the home fans into the turnstile that serves the away end, make all the away fans stand at just one turnstile, and then send them down to the other end when the game is five minutes old.

I was very proud of the lads yesterday, going to Craven Park and trying to win win your best team is quite hard but to do it with a patched up team and to also lose a key player in the warm up and then another 2 minutes into the game takes a miracle.

Our Halves contained Demetriou, Martin & Blake (Interchange Davey). Halley was playing injured, Snitch didn't look to good in the second halve and we still managed a gutsy display and made a good fist of it.

Yesterday the lads did the club proud and can take alot of positive away from the game even in defeat

Agreed, considering that we played 79 minutes without a recognised first team half or hooker having lost one of our centres before K.O, and played with three fit players on the bench, that was a monumental effort. Had we had a bit more composure when we got back to 30-18 I think we might have taken them, as it was three sets on the trot when we dropped the ball early on knocked the belief out of us I think.

It all bodes well for the rest of the season if we can get some playmakers back and keep them fit and healthy, as for HKR, if that's the best they've got against a make shift team like we put out then they've got nothing to come this season.

Could not fault the effort from any player yesterday, I thought Bibb played his best game for us so far,and Dale Ferguson was outstanding and will get my vote for MOM. Don`t know what`s Hendo`s on but it`s working.

Also heroic turnout from the fans, maybe I`m being over-optimistic but I would put our support up around the 2k mark?

Special praise for the 2 part-timers thrown in at the deep end, both worked a full week, including Saturday for Luke Blake, while James Davey had just 1 training session with the squad.Great promose shown by both lads, take a bow boys.

=red61 Tackles!!!!!

jesus, i think is the most i have ever seen if it is correct. Think most i have seen was 50-odd by Hindmarsh in a SOO match a couple of years ago

just a few points would like to make, i disagree with your statement about if thats best HKR can do against a makeshift side. I personnaly believe what has happened at Wakey during preseason & with injuries i think in a certain way has pulled the team so close together that the team spirit IMO is 2nd to none at the moment, and that is raising the teams game to above there level. i also believe that had drew stayed on the pitch rovers would have played different (i tihin you play better against good players). as for the away support i thought it was ok reckon about 300-400 cant really ask more for that. do get suprised sometimes at the crictism of the Golf Stand when most away stands are just terraced without any covers aswell. i also think if you were to expect 8 seats in a row is abit to much and you should of got in a hour before kick off, we have to do that in the east stand and its bloody standing. finally as for the rovers fans constant "your away support is crap compared to ours" it is boring the only thing i will say is being in super league is a novelty for us once the novelty has gone it will die down.

61 Tackles is an immense effort and if it's true i hope he gets some sort of recognition from the wider rugby league community!

Thats as impressive if not more so than someone scoring a hat-trick!

But your game plan was to take Drew out knowing that we had no more play makers, and that comes from one of your starting players.

said that on way home no one could criticise there effort thats all anyone can ask i was as proud of them yesterday as ive ever been , we had no one left a winger on one leg yet we still come back fighting as kear said last year we would have crumbled yet a team with no strength in depth according too the experts without 8 starting line up players gave hull kr a game PROUD AS PUNCH

Whatever!

lmfao no really 300 to 400 away fans !!!!!!! funniest thing ive heard since briscoe englands no 1

I'd say there was probably about 600 - 700. Parts of the North stand had Rovers fans in. Good turnout considering the rain coming down in Wakey before the game

Well he totally outplayed your superstar that cant make a one on one tackle on a 2nd rower running straight down the middle

Correct! Poor game from Matty!

Big fan of Briscoe personally. One of the most underrated players in Super League.

eh what you implying there it was a good hit yes but fair. just as one of your guys could have done the same to dobson, provided its a legal hit you cant complain.

Agree with the majority of the sentiments on the thread, the effort, guts and character shown by the lads was nothing short of heroic!

The efforts of Snitch and Ferguson were absolutely immense.

Thought Scully went well when he came on.

Very proud of the lads, well worth the journey, the 'amazing organisational skills of Hull KR' and the cold

Forgot to mention Dave Halley, what an effort to play the second half on one leg!

Had he been fit, he would have definately cleaned up the danger where KR scored in the corner

Fair, Drew had time to boil an egg before that thug hit him

Great effort from the boys, really proud of them (again). We could have easily folded early in the second half, around the time that Halley got injured - but we dug deep and never gave in.

If this sort of attitude and spirit continues through the season when our 'big guns' come available then we could end up with a good season on our hands.

Well done again lads.

have a word with yourself. its a mans game

anyway its a thread about your boys performance today and how proud you are of them so ill leave with a final comment

in my eyes it was totally fair, obv ill say that and you will say the opposite if he gets cited for it i will admit im wrong, if he doesnt then you are wrong.

Correct. If you want to discuss the hit on Drew, you can do so [url=http://viewtopic.php?t=398408&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0here[/url. Lets keep this thread for the purpose it was intended, please. Ta!

I thought you boys showed great togetherness and they deserve high praise indeed considering you had 9 (?) first choice players out. You should be and deserve to be as proud as punch.

Your away support I thought was great compared to some esp on a very cold day, about 800 - 900 I'd say, so well done and thanks.

Great team effort yesterday. Thought the whole squad played well.

Thought Fergie, Hendo and JD deserve extra praise.

But overall a great team performance.

Great away support as well....well to all who went.