Quote ="Pickering Red"I've got a feeling in my water that Rovers will win this Sunday. For this to happen, we need:
- To stop gifting sides their first 2 tries, as we have in the last 2 games
- To tighten up around the ruck
- To protect the ball better inside our 20
- To turn up with a bit more desire, intensity, physicality and line speed
- To hope the weather on Sunday is dry
Rovers by more than 10 in the event of the above, Salford by more than 10 if not.'"
I'd throw discipline in there too. In/around the ruck is one of our biggest frailties for me. This certainly seems to be emphasised more away from home, but then just about every other aspect of our play is too, in comparison to home form.
More stats ...
From the regular (9) away games thus far (not incl. magic)
@ HT we've been behind 8 times. Only vs FC have we been ahead.
Indeed if you expand to second half too, then we've only won the 2nd half twice ... (FC 2-0 / Widnes 12-6)
In short 18 halfs of footy, we've won 3.
We're also defensively consistent too ... 136pts conceded 1st half and 135pts conceded 2nd half.