Was like shelling peas,the usual bad behaved rovers fans thowing at the official and rovers players losing the plot.
wp hull fc.

That's just a 7 with the 'Sir Richard Whiting love-in b*****ks' bonus point.



In all seriousness, I'd perhaps agree after he moved to the wing and got us out of a hole. Before that though, I really didn't think he was that much better than any of our other forwards, who were 6s almost throughout.

I saw it a little differently to that, unsurprisingly. He was rock solid in defence and worked hard in attack, producing some decent offloads. He's never been a big tackle-buster - that's not his game - so he did all that could have been expected of him to a very good standard. He made three silly errors, but I'd still argue that the first penalty was harsh given other similar (or worse) incidents that went unpunished.

I did, of course, consider the possibility that my love for all things Richard Whiting might have clouded my judgement a little, but then I dismissed the notion as being so preposterous as to be unworthy of being entertained further.

CS is a serial whinger, and throughout his tenure @ Rovers has bemoaned about refereeing decisions, injuries and pointing out the other team's audacity to be able to field internationals. It does look/sound a bit small time I agree. In his defence though, we have had some poor calls go against us (esp recently) but he is young and naive with the media and hopefully will improve next season, but needs to curtail things like 'we had no right to compete'. I think that's twice in a few weeks he come up with that gem. Our team was the bare bones in places, but we had more or less a close to first choice 1-9. The forward pack stepped up to the plate and we were more than competitive. Our only genuine weakness was on the bench.

Bit of a roundabout argument the O'Hara/Beamount one. As Beamount probably wouldn't have played nearly half the games he has, had O'Hara actually been fit. The flip side of that is, then Beamount probably wouldn't have had an option of moving to Saints next year. So would we have looked to give him game time over someone is off at the end of the year (assuming Beamount accepted our offer) etc. Both leaving in any event now, so maybe we should be playing/using James Green more.

Whiting was good again despite the penalties he gave away. His offloading game is one of our best attacking weapons at the moment and he currently is standing well above all of our other forwards in that regard. Has to start on the bench at Wembley purely for his utility value.

If that's true it's surprising how often he pokes his nose through the line. He has the ability to beat his opponent with the lines he runs. I don't think you're overstating his performance/ability - in fact of late he's actually been getting some 'neutral' accolades amongst commentators - not before time.