Same for any week in a contact sport though really, we have a big squad, and the youth system is getting praose , so time for some of the backup players to step up and prove their worth.

Awful second half from Hull once KR started playing. Kelly proved why he is one of the best halves in the league and will be an absolute menace to defences this year. As for Campese, couldn't tell he was even playing.

Oh no! not that old chestnut again.

Total game of two halfs and a draw would be a fair result, we looked great in the first half, Sa, Pryce and Mini were excellent.

2nd we made too many mistakes and had poor discipline, Kelly really started to play and we couldn't handle him.

On that performance I'd say Yeaman, Talanoa and shauls placed are under threat.

Hope our injuries aren't too bad.

On the whole I wasn't too unhappy with that. Forwards were very good. We totally dominated the first half physically and probably should have been another score or two ahead.

A bit of magic by Kelly changed the game. That try really put a spring in their step and it coincided with us making a few changes and dropping out intensity.

Credit to Rovers. They dug in well despite getting beaten up for much of the game, and a bit of Kelly (and Dixon) magic turned the game around.

It would have been nice to win, but we can take a lot from that both in positives and lessons to learn.

Do you reckon Kelly for Keating and Dixon for Eden are fair swaps lol
Seriously both sides can take positives from that , both to make the 8 hopefully can we have mini chedders please

@James_Smailes: Gaz Ellis has a chance of playing next week, Lee Radford says physio not too concerned at present with knee injury, will know more tomorrow

Hope this is correct.

Pleased someone mentioned that
Pryce seems to be our new penalty machine

Knee cap popped out and went straight back in.
Sounds horrific but lets hope he is Ok.

Pretty much my take on it as well.

It wasn't so much the amount of penalties that bothered me. It was that many of them were so needless. Tackles in the air, late hit on the kicker, holding down on the last when Rovers were in their own half. I can live with conceding penalties, but not needless ones like those.

Another thought on the game is that I would be leaning towards Michaels on the wing and Talanoa at centre when Michaels is available.

Try the scapegoat thread or is Radders already irreversibly pencilled in?

Dixon reminded me of Eden, great going forward but awful defensive FB play.

Question. Beginning of the first half when Paea (who looks in grape shape and an absolute beast) made a fantastic run dragging defenders what seemed like forever. He was still moving and didn't look like stopping. The red stopped him and told him to ptb. What is the actual ruling on that?

Fingers crossed.

If he's making progress, the ref keeps his trap shut

Sounds like (c) allows the ref to do anything.

For those who went who played the majority of 2nd half in the forwards? I'm a bit worried that some of our replacement forwards lack a bit of aggression. We have to get away from this drop in intensity when the forward rotation starts. The idea is that we up our standards across the board. Did HTW play ? He showed some aggression last week.

All the forwards played some part of the 2nd half except Ellis. HTW wasn't in the squad. Main problem was penalties, dropped Balls and we let Kelly play.

Need to improve on defending cross field kicks.

Also not sure if it was a coincidence or not, but Rovers really got a roll on with Houghton off the field.

I assume you mean Bobby? I think most of the second half we had Thompson at 13 and Mini/Hadley second row. Cunningham played a decent chunk of the second half at 9, then Houghton came on. We finished the game with Howarth, as, I think, loose man.

The props were just all rotated except for Watts who went off injured (arm injury of some description). He was having a great game prior to that too.

How did Cunningham play ?

Howarth played at hooker, looked really slow. I'd start Cunningham next week.

Didn't do much wrong for me, but Dave's right we lacked a little energy when Houghton was off. But that was around the time that both Ellis and Westy went off too so could be as much down to them as Houghton.

Anyone know what crowd it got?