Houghton set up two try's with good short balls though.

also his first run out

Yeah true, I didn't mean to say his entire game was a negative. Just shocked by how bad a few of his passes where.

A couple of times Houghton seemed to make passes from dummy half to players who weren't expecting it. Lack of communication or players having a rest? Also thought Bowden was at fault for going for the big hits and missing that Westy is being blamed for. I could be wrong though.

Rankin, Talanoa, Paea and Feka have all made good starts. Maybe the doomsday recruitment prophets were a tad hasty. Rankin in particular looks to have the potential to be our "go-to" player, although very early doors, obviously.

Sounds like McDonnell's not too far off, which is good news.

Puzzled as to why on here the only opinions of Westerman are that he's sublime or turd. I think he's good, but not always that effective.

Is it me, or do the players look [ureally [/uyoung these days?

I posted in the other thread that our number 2 looked like he was about 12.

Does the 3rd brother play for Hull also?

He's played in all 3 games, quite sensible by Radford IMO given the delay on Biggs, injury to Crookes and late arrival of Talanoa. He looks scrappy. As in feisty.

That's George he is on the scholarship he's only 14.

Some good photos by Richard Gould in this folder here: focus-images.photoshelter.com/ga ... LVJEHtaSrU

Some good photos by Richard Gould in this folder here: focus-images.photoshelter.com/ga ... LVJEHtaSrU

Did he do the crossfield kick for the final try against Bradford? Feisty. And about 4 stone wet through

Did you bang your head on the way out... the 2nd half with the exception of Costigan and hodgson for very brief spells was entirely Rovers young kids. I would be more concerned with how easy tour first team was to open up particularly on the right hand side rather than how supportets celebrate tries.

Confident kid is Tom Stark.
Not afraid to challenge a high ball despite his size, returns kicks at pace and is happy to get in at dummy half to help gain some yards. Definitely needs to do a lot of gym work though

I'm not concerned with conceding two tries.

haha

Does anyone do the stats for these friendly games like they do for super league games , ie meters made , Carrys , off loads , substitution times etc etc ? It will put to bed this argument

Was one of them when we were down to 12 men?

I've been banging my head on the wall since bradford until this morning

Better execution and it would of been another 3 or 4.

Anyone know when the replay is going to be on Fc live tonight as stated in the programme?

Evening Craig, and welcome to your 2014 excuse-a-thon.

Chuckle chuckle.

Yeah I think the first one was.

I didn't go today, so I feel well qualified to comment.

Westerman had a shocker, how he gets picked I'll never know.
Rankin - who's he? Ridiculous signing.
Feka - well past it, another crazy signing.
Talanoa - you've got to be joking - bin him now.
Crooks and Lineham - one season wonders.
Horne - he'll never finish a match, never mind a season.
Crookes and Biggs - simply didn't turn up.
Yeaman and Arundel - enough said.
Ellis - left his form back in Australia.
The rest looked unfit and uninterested.
Radford - he isn't qualified to coach a junior side - never seen interchanges used like that before.
Not worth the entrance money.
Good job Rovers rested their first team after a few minutes.