Now the dust has settled/settling we all need to be objective. By ALL i mean the entire club; chairman to staff to players to fans.

The result today, whilst excellent was not deserved. The first 60 minutes was to similar to Widnes and our attack was all to similar to the previous 3 seasons. As an avid fan of over 30 years, I'm a little frustrated at continuously saying our club is in 'transition.'
I do not want to come across as pessimistic (overly), but where is our season going? The next 4 games are; Warrington, St Helens, Leeds & Huddersfield. On that performance i struggle to see us gaining more than 2 points, at most.

But who is to blame? It has to be Radford. This is his team, his philosophy, his coaching, his personnel. Radford has a win percentage of 40%!!!!
Gentle - 56%
Agar - 48%

So why in Gods name are we sticking with Radford?

Another issue i have is our recruitment. I do not want to come over as a smart ass but before he signed i watched a lot of Pritchard i said he was average at best, or at least not worth such a hefty salary. In fact, i believe he has regressed since his Bulldog days and his waistline has significantly increased. But this is the management's fault, and not the first time they have allotted such a salary cap proportion on players without necessarily improving results, i could name, Berrigan, Westerman, Holdsworth, Long. Whilst these are very good players, they didn't improve results. So what is the issue!!!!!

How is it not deserved. We scored more points than them and surely that's the aim. The performance wasn't brilliant but we came out with the 2 points and we're now 4th in the table.

Out of all the spiel you mention today. Anyways, part of my answer to you is in bold above.

Before the season has started you said Pritchard was average at best?
Then you have never seen Pritchard play in the NRL before. He was arguably the form back rower in Australia last season. To say he was average with Canterbury and Penrith is an insult to him.
However, he has been average upto now with Hull.

Absolutely correct. Why didn't we deserve to win? after 60 minutes we certainly didn't but the game doesn't last 60 minutes.

I agree he hasn't had the impact I expected but to say he was average in the NRL is ridiculous.

"Let's be realistic"

I thought for one minute that you was going to be serious

We win a derby after being 20 pts down maybe a record? 4th in the table with a match in hand on some, yet we have this as a thread, SERIOUSLY

Watched the majority of the NRL games over the last 2 years with the help of Premier Sports. So that claim i have 'never watched' Pritchard play is erroneous. Next....



Maybe i expect more then. Maybe other fans should expect more too! Next...



Well perhaps we should play for 80 minutes and not for the final 20. Or was there another reason why we won, was it our superior skill, our incredible attacking prowess or was it that KR were so poor defensively and so incredibly unfit that we pounced.

Lets see what happens when we play the 'better' teams, Warrington will be interesting....

This response, purely focusing on today is exactly why we are, the club we are. Some fans are blinkered and blind to that fact we should do better and be ruthless in doing so. We accept mediocrity. Lets raise the bar, just a little.

F*** it. We got a win we didn't deserve. Let's go mental. Love this feeling!

here here lets enjoy the day

Quel dicktete as they say in Catalonia.

Amen brother.

What a tremendous load of tripe. Pritchard was 1 of the standouts in the NRL last yr, to say otherwise is just stupid and totally lacking of rugby knowledge and ignoring what decent callers of the game like sterling fitler gould n johns were saying. Also warriors saw fit to offer a deal. In fact it is the dumbest thing I've read in a while. The top metre maker forward wise on the pitch today. From both sides

Haha, few beers down, but wow! Not experienced anything like that! We were garbage! What a come back!

In sport, the result will always be remembered longer than the performance.

Yes we were poor for 60 minutes today, but at least we did actually close the game out, unlike the Cas and Wigan games.

Feel so much happier today, than I did last Good Friday.

the big fat overweight ,over rated ,over paid no mark did 143 metres yesterday and did more than half the Rovers pack put together,he is our top metre maker and he gets e like this said about him .Get real for once FFS

The game is played for 80 minutes. It's extremely rare to fluke a win in RL. We defended fairly well for the entire game. Our attack was flat for the first 60 mins. Was the the coaches instruction? I very much doubt it, given the quotes for the coach and senior players in recent weeks. When we did run the ball on the last, Mini flipped the ball into Sio's hands and we conceded.

I think there are few on here who only watch highlights of game on TV. The idea a team can throw the ball around like a pass the parcel game on every set is deluded. Every team will have sets of one out stuff. It's part of the game. It's what you do with it close to the line which is more of a concern. Ironically, having our big lads charging on to the ball from a yard or two out might actually be a better thing to do.

But then again there are a fair few on here who seek to criticise when we win a game from 20 nil down with 20 mins left in the back yard of our arch rivals.

Did we deserve to win? We scored more tries and (more importantly) more points than the opposition. One things for sure, Rovers didn't deserve it win and that's purely down tho their final 20 minutes.

A team with a decent set of fans (sweeping statement, but you get my drift) would be talking about "finding a way to win" yet some on here maintain the anti radford agenda. I honestly do know why some bother .

hull2524 wrote:

We win a derby after being 20 pts down maybe a record? 4th in the table with a match in hand on some, yet we have this as a thread, SERIOUSLY

With the playing roster we have, we shouldn't have been anywhere near being 20 points down.

Well summed up.

OK were to begin. Firstly, a standout in the NRL i doubt. A reputation, yes. Standout, no.

Im not even going to argue with you on the 'decent' callers of the game Sterling, Fitler, Gould and Johns. More hidden agendas then the Conservatives.

The Warriors saw fit to offer him a deal. The same Warriors who offered Tomkins a huge deal and the same Warriors that are perennial underachievers.

I thought an opinion is what these boards are for. Not to have the usual childish 'lack of rugby knowledge,' 'you're stupid' catchphrases.

Yes we won, but why don't we expect more. Why do we except mediocrity more than most other clubs. We beat Hull KR for goodness sake, yes we came back but it was not and is not good enough.

Lets deal with facts, as Benitez would say;
=#FF0000In the previous 2 seasons - against Wire we have won 1 out of 5 games; Leeds we have won 1 out of 6 games; Wigan we have won 0 out of 4 games, conceding on average 40 points per game against Wigan.

These will be the same fans that will still have the blind faith going into Warrington on Monday.

Some people are never happy why don't you save these type of posts for when we lose, just enjoy it like most on here because reading this after a fantastic comeback like we did, well YOUR BORING.