We have all slagged off our half back failings but my god,how crap is Keating?.....he makes Thorman look good.After Green totally flattened him he was even more crap

They'd have been better off signing Ronan Keating.

Rankin's best game that one .

keating is so shiit I'm surprised we didn't sign him.

We aren't t,hat daft.

Burns' voluntary surrender in the first half was comedy gold.

Oh crap I'm gonna flattened and I won't be able to go to Sts and leave this useless piece of crap Keating behind me

Jacob miller looks better than keating.
I hope saints have a get out clause on burns on tonight's performance.
Rankin will come good though.

Rankin had a great game, Keating awful. Burns is comedy gold!

I actually thought keating did ok, problem is there are no dummy runners, no back up and no structure, thurston would look gash with that around him.

Weren't you banging on in pre-season about us signing an unknown in Rankin whilst Rovers picked up an NRL grand-finalist? Am I remembering that right?

Nice to see a good deep line with all players moving , Didn't happen all the time ...but it's a start.

Possibly but that was before I knew he was a ginner. ranking is ordinary

like rankin , think hes gonna be a gud un

I'm not suggesting Rankin is anything special, just remembering your criticism of his signing with reference to Keating, who has turned out (as many said he would) as just as ordinary (at best) but probably a good chunk more expensive.

The best thing Rovers could do with him next year IMO is to use him as Hodgson's replacement and try find another half (or two).

Keating has always been a hooker, and a support player. That's were Rovers should deploy him
Just being an NRL Grand finalist does not automatically make you a good player and Rankin has far more about his game than Keating.

Keating has to be one of the worst halves I've ever seen. They might as well stick a 7 on Rufus Robbin's back, I'm sure he (or she?) would be no worse.

Saints are paying big money for an average player in Burns, yes he tries hard but he is very limited and not naturally talented.

the chubby spiderman from half time would go better than Keating.

We could all go back months and find people's opinions are proven wrong. Personally, I don't think either are good enough for a half decent SL team but signing a player who has played a decent number of NRL games is less of a risk than signing an unknown like rankin. FWIW, burns was also gash last night but isn't as we know

Fair play to Burns for quickly getting changed into that spiderman costume, completing the challenge and missing Chester's half time motivational team talk. And was Geoffrey Giraffe Jordan Cox?

I disagree that he's average. He was clearly shagged last night and should have been brought off, but he's a fantastic 100% competitor and has a skillset that would be better showcased behind a more dominant pack. He's not going unless Rovers sign an upgrade anyway.

I agree. Fantastic competitor. 28 nil down with 2 minutes to go and he tried to kick a 40-20. We battered the hell out of him all night though and it's obvious he isn't popular with our players

Burns is a good player & competitor, but he can be distracted & taken off his game plan very easy, & constantly moans to the ref about what the opposition are doing, when he is one of the worst for niggling etc...will saints be able to stop him from going off his game plan?

Not popular with theirs either, apparently.