'since when did injuries become an excuse for losing a game??' this is what the majority of you dobbins have been saying all year to us fc fans, so why is it any different when you get you pants pulled down and spanked at headingley???? 'boot on the other foot' comes to mind!

No negativity to focus on this weekend?

When a player gets injured as bad as Chev did then it has a psychological affect on the rest of the team. If a player gets injured due to foul play then that tends to spur the rest of the team on as a kind of "payback" mentality whereas a player getting injured so badly in what was an innocuous tackle tends to have the reverse affect and it can/does play on a players mind.

Not had time to read all the threads yet, but strangely, i don't find it unusual that the first post i find blameing injuries for OUR defeat is from an FC fan.

Is this the best you can come up with - proud of our lads all the way... great season and guess what dumbo... our season is still in motion.

My biggest problem last night was seeing Kath Hetherington ugly mug!

The only winner from a Hull club at Headingley last night. Well done Kath.

what a load of dribble!!! all the best to chev absolutely horrible injury and hope he makes a quick return. however these are full time athletes and know stuff like this is part of the game, rovers seem to do alrite upto half time without chev. give you credit for the effort on trying to make excuses though, you could give rule and agar a run for there money!

A thread on injuries started by an FC FAN

Straight Jacket for Mr dandaman

Well done Kath a cheque for loads of new bogs, rather apt as seen as Gateshulls season went down the pan again.

Well that's two wins this season... £5k for being the the fairest team in SuperLeague - won't come your way next season after signing Lauaki and winning the 9's.... gosh!

I would have taken the four points against you any day!

They'd have swapped both these awards for the Clive Sullivan trophy.
( it would have meant a S.L. victory over their top four rivals

)

2 awards in the cabinet, £5k for each. 4 points are worthless unless you lift the trophy, just like losing at Wembley last year was worthless. You don't even have the bragging rights after our win in the 9s

How far you have fallen, bragging about winning the fairplay & Nines trophies

So you don't mind losing the derbies then ?

It was a TIC comment as you well know, hence the

. However, you can't have it all ways. We got to one of two major finals last year and were badged as utter losers because we lost to Saints. You can't claim some "success" if you fail to win the SL title after saying we had nothing to celebrate in making a major final but not winning. There are 2 major trophies on offer, we've won neither, you're still in with a shout of one of them. If you lose, the reality is that you'll immediately be below us in the league table on the basis of alphabetical order with everyone on zero points. Even the club of the year trophy will be gone. You win nowt just for finishing 4th you know, admirable as that achievement might be.

Look at Catalans. They played Saints in a CC final at Wembley in their second year in SL and finished 3rd in their 3rd season. This year they just sneaked in the play-offs. You speak as if Rovers current dominance of FC is for all eternity. Maybe the Parasol Park era will last 1,000 years, who knows, or you might do a Catalans next season. Given the slagging off we got for losing to Saints in a major final, you're on dodgy ground being critical before the SL trophy is in the cabinet.

I've no need to make excuses i'm not a rovers fan. I am simply making a valid point as to why sometimes injuries as serious as last nights can affect a team.
Anyway wind your neck in "FC SCUM" i believe is the terminology used on this board

Here you go.... chant idea for the KC East Stand Massive...

"At Least we've won the Fairplay... at least we've won the fairplay"

Repeat at regular intervals during the derby

Would you rather be in the top 4 and bottom of the Fair Play league.

Nasty teams are winners.

No it is obvious they would rather have the Fairplay Index and the RL nines in the pocket than win another game!

We have our pride, we have daft Gateshull fans like you biting, clutching at straws, we have you rattled, deep down you are very very bitter, first season in SL we secure it with a 6-42 drubbing of your team, second season we finish above you, third season we finish above you again and make the play-offs , regardless of how far we go, we have you lot who mocked us for years rattled, it's a nice feeling , you was once a knowledgable sensible poster, but now even you are biting and showing your obvious envy and frustration

Good for you, if losing by 8 tries to 1 makes you feel nice. You've won nothing yet and on the criteria set by the collective wisdom on here last year, unless you win the trophy you are "LOSERS". No prizes for 4th, son, nor for being losing finalists. You're still on course for the trophy, though, aren't you, none of the teams on show tonight are showing much class, so not sure what the need is for your seething, ill-punctuated rant.

As a matter of interest Mrs B, dig out the statistics concerning how many seasons you were making up the numbers in S.L. (which by most pundits views was nowhere near as competitve) before you made a play off and how many years later before you actually won a game in the series.

Forgive Barista , she has a supposed career ( which she Googled

) , but obviously no life