The thing is though, its actually about winning competitions not just the odd game or two and, lets face it, you've not really shone in that department. We don't like bad results but we can live with them because we have a history of winning the things that matter.

Being the best club in the city isn't the limit of my ambitions and I hope to god that the club thinks the same, if you're content with being the best team in hull then fair enough.

All your fans have to cling to is the past, you certainly don't have anything recent in terms of success to crow about (apart from a few wins over us). Fair play to rovers you've had a decent couple of years but the closest you've been to success was in 2015 (which ended well). Being the best club in the city isn't really an achievement given how dire we've been for the majority of the last 4 years or so.

Yes you just prove my point.

Are you aware that the Super League extends beyond the boundary of Hull? If we aren't the best side in the competition, we are failing in our goal. That should he the same for every club in the league. Evidently, it clearly isn't.

A perfect summary of your small club syndrome, well done.

"Lol" as hullkr21 (or whatever they're called) would say.

Of course, that goes without saying. If you cannot accept that the defeats of your derby team are not seen with pleasure you need to refer to the supporters of Saints and Wigan for example.

Wigan and Saints fans greet their rivals defeats with pleasure. I suppose that’s small club syndrome as well. Get real your team is a laughing stock at the moment.

Sounds like AP’s head fully went with the players straight after the match, don’t see what that achieves and is disrespectful to Tony in his teams dressing room

He chose the playing group over the last coach and they served that up 4 weeks into a season.

I'd be ed off too if I was him.

We have had a couple of bad losses and we'll have a few more this season, if we're a laughing stock what does that make you? Given we're on the same points and we have had recent success to fondly look back on (rather than relegation scraps and record cup final defeats).

Living in the past again

So you didn't answer the question we're on the same points, how are we a laughing stock? How about Leeds are they a Laughing stock too?

Wigan and St Helens don't judge how successful their season has been on just two or three games or whether they finish above the other club. They don't have small club syndrome, Hull KR do and you know it. That's why you and the Dylan fan are obsessed with being the "top dogs" in the city.

He is the owner of the club and pays their wages.
Nothing disrespectful at all.The whole dressing room including coaching staff needed to hear what he was saying.
I would have done the same in Pearsons position.
So many times when the club has a chance to build the fan base the players let us down big time.
Be interesting to see if any of the pack your bags players get shipped out before the season end.

Hull KR for 86 against 76 difference +10
Hull FC for 74 against 146 difference -72

Yes we have the same points but performance wise you are in a poor second place. You also have the same number of points as Wigan. However as they also have performed better than you they are in third spot whilst you are in ninth. Points difference can be quite important, they can even be cause of relegation.

Not surprised at this. He was devastated after the game. He'd been ill all week so having to sit and witness that will have been excruciating just like it was for the rest of us.

I don’t doubt that he has the right to vent his thoughts to the players, but doing it before the coach has even had the chance to speak to the players is what I find disrespectful to the coach. And in all honesty, what’s it’s going to achieve? Leave the team talks to the coach.

As for players leaving, heard Wynne is going out on loan for the season

So because we have a worse points difference than the mighty hull kr after 4 games it makes us a laughing stock? Teams peak at different points in the season. Cas have started even worse than us but I wouldn't call them a laughing stock just a team going through a rough patch. We'll see what happens at the end of the season, in all likely hood we'll finish outside the playoffs which isn't too surprising, we need a huge reset of the playing staff.
I'll take your word for that about relegation as you seem to be experts in that department compared with us.

No club judges a season on just two or three games and I never said we did. Both Wigan and Saints do feel the season has been a failure if they finish below the other. It’s just that they are competing at a different level. If FC finished second to Wigan you would all be over the moon. If Saints finished second to Wigan they would see it failure. We are just enjoying being above you for the last couple of seasons. You and you ilk just cannot accept the present situation. You just try and distract from FC’s present situation by posting as fact your own prejudices.

No it’s the manner of the defeat and you being a big club.

Oh the irony……….remind us all which club and which fans fans revel in the past such as the name of the bar in craven park.

You seem to be content at finishing above Hull FC which just shows the level of what you see as an achievement. Beating Hull FC much like Hull FC besting Rovers actually doesn’t earn anything more than the 2pts, there’s no silverware other than the CS trophy so hardly anything for you to wet your knickers over Keith.

Come back and gloat when your club have won something of note until then stay busy with you sock as you’re not saying anything new and are quite tiresome.

See the HDM article on your recent humiliations as to why you’re a laughing stock….. lol

somebody ban these toss pots please

I don’t think anybody can blame AP if he did indeed vent his spleen as the guy that provides everything these players want & need to be successful and professional yet this is how they repay him.

Maybe they need to told as it is without any sugar coating and I’m sure Tony Smith wouldn’t argue after such a pitiful, pathetic and down right insulting level of performance.

I think you have it the wrong way around. It's quite apparent that you yourself are trying to distract from Rovers current position. For as amazing a team you have apparently been, and we are a laughing stock, we're still, regardless of points difference, level on league points. This time next week, however slim the chances may be considering our next opposition, we could be above you in the league. I guarantee should that happen you will not be on here claiming that we are now the best team of the two, you will be saying how early I'm the season it is to be making such claims. (Well in actual fact you wouldn't even be on here).
That's the last I'll say on the matter anyway. Unlike yourself I have other things to enjoy on a Sunday evening than worry about an opposition team.