As we left Wakey with our tails between our legs, I thought, as is my way of getting this out in the open, I felt reading the Wakey fans opinions, how much this game meant to them, I don’t think we were on board with this, and after being dismantled and punished by a rampant Wakey team, wondered what other big defeats have happened in the Super league era.

I am not a statistic man, and tend to use my memory “rightly or wrongly” rather than the old google for reference.

Now as a couple of our usual friends from across the river have been sing at our a##e kicking, I will start with them I am sure they were beaten at their home by some 80points or did I imagine it. Is this the record defeat?

Other big defeats anyone, just for therapy.

Our 6-84 defeat by Wigan in 2013 is the biggest home defeat in SL. Strangely, perhaps, it was sandwiched between Rovers wins against Hull and St Helens.
Whenever an away team pulls into a big early lead I hope it’ll see the record overtaken. Similarly if any team goes up by more than 26 points early on, I hope hope for a comeback so we can lose the record for the biggest lead given away (also against Wigan) - if it is the away team, i’m torn.



The biggest margin of victory in a SL game was in 2000 when Bradford hosted and beat Salford 96-16.

In League 1, West Wales have been having a torrid time this year, and those lads deserve credit for keeping going.

Our record Super League score was the 82-6 home win over Salford in 2004 (fifteen tries and eleven goals). Four weeks later we beat Widnes 70-4 at the KC and the week after that we won 52-18 at Cas.

Record away win was 70-6 at Bradford in 2012.

You also had the biggest home win in 2013 with 72-10 defeat of Widnes.
Your defeat yesterday was this season’s biggest so far. Biggest wins in recent seasons:
2014 widnes 64 London 10
2015 Warrington 80 Wakefield 0
2016 Wakefield 62 Wigan 0 (despite ultimate relegation, Rovers had the biggest away win at Cas)
2017 Cas 66 Leeds 10


Edit. Rovers put 70 on wakefield (who seem to end up on either side of a lot of these big scores) and Cas in 2011 and 2012, respectively.

Some days the momentum just keeps growing rather swinging!

Thank you “Mild Rover” my hangover is clearing, we were never in with a chance of breaking the comeback record lol, but believe me Wakey could have hit 80+.

Come On You Ull, it does happen a lot “he says looking for closure” but you certainly remember it more when it happens to thee.

Back when we could put big scores on teams and was entertaining.

I'm a Wakey fan and can remember a long ride home from Brentford having shipped 74 points to London Broncos. I don't think me and my mate spoke till we got to Leicester Forest East Services we were that gutted. For that and a few other shellackings we've had over the years I didn't feel it neccessary to gloat about yesterday.

Top man Lyndsay

Only good thing about that day was the 5 cans of VB submerged in the bucket of ice, but at least we got a couple of tries, unlike against Wire away when we got an almighty shallacking and lost 80-0.
Felt for their fans who once again turned out in numbers only to be let down by the players.

On the subject of record defeats, a depleted Hull team and Wakefield Trinity takes me back to Wembley 1960 when Trinity hammered us in the CC final. It became a record winning score and margin in a final in that cup's history. Also the first try by Wakefield remains the fastest ever scored in the CC final.

I believe at least a couple or so besides me on here witnessed that disappointment.

A not so easy question. In what year was our margin of defeat beaten in the CC final?

Leeds-London in ‘99 - although if we take into account the move from 3-point to 4-point tries, you have to skip forward another 16 years to a record that might well endure even longer. I hope it does tbh - the biggest home defeat and lead surrendered in SL, i’d happily hand over, but I wouldn’t wish that on anybody. The balm for that one would be getting back and winning it or at very least losing ‘normally’ with a creditable performance.

As we’re indulging in masochism, what would be your stand-out shocking result, irrespective of margin of defeat?

Aye i was there .Watching em drag Tommy Harris of the pitch Wakey really marked him out as the danger man
Ps freddie check your messages thanks

7th May, 1983. Hull 12 Featherstone 14

Lol we faired a lot better now the cup finals in August, there’s another in May which is now fading with memory, “honestly”

10-5 over and out buddy, that took about thirty odd years of anti depressants

Featherstone at Wembley!!!! For some reason, I thought it was 14-12 to Hull, probably copiuos amounts of beer!!! Shock horror and various expletives, when I realised it was the winning penalty by Quin and not a replay which I was convinced we’d win. That beer eh, gets you into all sorts of bother but luckily, you don’t usually remember

IIRC Wakey scoring a try was on opening credits for Saturday afternoon BBC 'Grandstand' for years! My late dad used to go barmy

Kenty, thought it was Tommy Harris, I weren’t very old then, maybe I have it wrong

Don't know why, it was Tommy Finn scoring !!!

As shock results go, the loss to Fev is the biggest. We were possibly the shorted odds favourites for years to win the cup that day. I started going to rugby when in 1981, so the '80 final was something I watched on TV at the time but I cannot claim to have been an ardent fan at the time. That rovers won (when looking at form of that time) was not so much a shock result.


If we put the shoe on the other foot, shock wins which stick out in the memory would be

March 1988 - Hull 18 v Wigan 12 (McCaffrey's last minutes beauty)

April 1988 hull kr 14 v Hull 21 (2 day after the cup semi replay defeat to Fax, a knackered Hull team (minus our imports in Scott Gale, David Brooks and Terry Regan) take the good Friday derby.

January 1989, Wigan 20 v Hull 35 (Brian Smiths side dominated wigan on their own patch)

April 2004, Bradford 18 v Hull 26 (4 tries for Briscoe at the home of the rampant Bulls)

Sorry.Been on here for years and have never used the PM system. Found your message from the 7th July and will reply today.

Tommy Finn scored our only try the year before against Wigan. Try scorer in the '60 final against Wakefield was centre Stan Cowan.

Well done- you are spot on.

Continuing on with the masochistic theme my stand-out shock result was the previous year's CC final against Wigan in 1959.

I was living that year in Hull (left permanently after) and went to every round including a replay win away at Wakefield and beat you in the quarter final. We breezed through the semi while Wigan scraped past Leigh in the semi (5-0 I think).
Billed as a battle between the great Hull pack with Whiteley, Harris, Scott plus the Drake twins and the great Wigan back line with Boston, Ashton,Sullivan and Bolton, it was a no contest with us taking a hammering 30-13.

Our pack failed to fire on the day and was comfortably dominated by the Wigan outfit with forward Brian McTigue the MOM. Bolton was enormous at stand off. The margin of the loss together with the Hull pack sub par performance was a shock as was the Wigan dominance and ranked as one the best Wigan teams I have ever seen.

Much more recent, but in terms of shocking in the sense of terrible the 2016 MPG stands out. However, that season had left me at such a low ebb that it wasn't remotely surprising. Even the last few minutes, I felt like I was watching it from a distance, resignedly. I do think it shocked the club, at all levels, into a strong response though - I left feeling very much that 'I aren't having that!', and I don't think I was alone.

For shocking, as it nasty surprise - the Oldham cup defeat earlier that year has to be up there. Lower division teams beating SL opposition is rare but when it happens it is usually the top teams from the second tier pulling off the shock. Swinton beat Hudds the next year, of course, although i thinks Hudds were missing a few.

On happy surprises, beating Wigan and Leeds in successive games early in 2007 was pretty dizzying. Although the 6-42 game is better remembered, our first SL derby win in Cardiff ended a 7-game losing streak.