I think you'd be hard pressed to find any fan of any club who wasn't shocked by the final 2 minutes of that game. There isn't a chance in hell anyone would've predicted that but I have to say, the way KR dealt with the year away from SL was exemplary and whilst being in the middle eights again is a blow, you must be far more confident in securing the SL position outright.

Maybe a few of us will remember a game on the Boulevard, we were at half time 26-0 up against Swinton. It seemed after our coach at the time Len Casey delivered his half time speech it did the trick “for Swinton” they beat us 26-28 or some similar shock score line.

You wouldn’t have predicted it, but weirdly it had a sense of inevitability to it as it unfolded. For me at least.

We’ve made the tackle, we just need to hold the man down and concede the penalty... but we won’t.
Now we just need Bentham to see that forward pass... but he won’t.
Now if we could just win the toss... but we won’t.

Sickening.

This time, I feel like ‘we’ have done our best. Anything can happen in the 8s, and going down again would be hugely disappointing and probably more damaging. But if you fail having given it your best shot, there’s not that same sense of gnawing regret.

You won't go down - Salford and Widnes are far worse than you guys

I wish your judgement were the deciding factor.



We were better than Hudds over 23 rounds and better than Salford over 7, in 2016.

For a team in the middle 8s we're in a pretty good place currently, IMO. But in such a short series of games with little room for error, it doesn't take much to land you in the poop!

think the middle 8s will throw up a few suprises

At least you learnt by the 'not conceding a penalty' decision the year after!!
I think this year will be the tightest middle eights competition yet and with the top four (all but a Wire/Cas implosion and us actually winning) sewn up, it'll be where the most excitement is for the next couple of months that's for sure!

And the Bulls scored first.



Almost made up for the 71-0 shafting they gave us in 2005....actually forget that, it didn't come anywhere near.



The last two minutes of the 2015 MPG were just about the most remarkable I've ever seen during my time watching RL. Having said that, watching Bradford score three tries in quick succession towards the end of a SL fixture at Wigan was fairly astonishing as well, and obviously amusing. I think they were losing by 16 points with less than ten minutes left, that Aussie full back who qualified to play for GB, Michael Withers, scored the last try. IIRC someone on betfair offered odds of 500/1 late on on a Bulls win, somebody spotted it and had a few bob on it.