Leeds running away with it in the last 20. 'Only' 6-4 on the try count, conversions making the scoreline a bit lopsided.

No points, but no shame.

Will Dobbo's goal kicking prowess return? As Captain - Do you think he should have delegated the responsibility onto Hall? Something is obviously wrong, He missed a hand full in the derby friendly, too.

You lot sounded better than Leeds for the majority of that game on the radio.

Yep that's wat we said he not captain material thought he had a shocker of a game thought our forwards were awesome our backs were as flat as a fart

If they were mostly touchliners off a frozen pitch, it's understandable. But, yeah - not what we've come to expect!

We were in it for 60 mins then as Leeds do totally destroyed us think Leeds will be hard to beat this season they look the finished article we were taught a harsh lesson in the last 20 mins but not totally dis heartened certainly sum positives to come out of it.

Sinni managed them okay no excuse why not give em to hall to kick if he felt was having an off day

Where they miles away? Easy to call with hindsight, but I'd only look at changing it based on more observations than 4 (sorry, science geekspeak). Get some practice in mid-week, mind.

Wakefield @ Widnes was a fairly entertaining game, I thought. Won't give away the score in case people have recorded it, but it'll be interesting to see how we get on against the Wildcats.

If you were listening to Humberside, i mean Radio Rovers,of course it would of sounded better.

Indeed. Apparently a 12-5 penalty count against Rovers was a big factor this week whereas after the KC friendly an 11-4 penalty count in favour of Rovers was not significant and the referee in that game was 'barely noticed'. Seems like a little bit of inconsistency there in the analysis.

Sounds like Rovers made a decent fist of it nonetheless.

I think Scott Taylor was a bit unlucky to miss out on the starting 13 and same too with Josh Hodgson, Liam Watts missing from the 17 altogether ?

Leeds are notorious slow starters. Opportunity missed for rovers

Was Watkins playing opposite Welham or Webster?

How do u expect us to know that it was that cold and we all had hypothermia we was to cold to watch the game, think it was welhams twasnt welhams best game man of match from our team was horne.

It sounded like an even game for the first hour or so from listening to the game on the radio and the missed conversions made the scoreline more one sided that what it actually was. We shouldn't be too depressed about tonight and with it only being the first game we can only get better.

Just got home and I thought Rovers looked on a par with Leeds. 18 point difference was very flattering to Leeds and they won on the back of a hefty penalty count Rovers where constantly under the pump because of that. Leeds where piggy backed up the field and never had to work as hard as Rovers for their field position. When Rovers are picking Leeds players up and dumping them on their backs and the ref pulls them up for going above the horizontal on a perfectly legal tackles your in trouble. The difference in holding down was totally one sided. But I'm proud of the effort the boys put in tonight. Leeds scored one try off a clear obstruction another off a forward/knock on. Harsh result to take but that's rugby league.

Well done to all the rovers fans. Massive following tonight.

Who'd have thought you'd have the mirror image of the derby game so soon afterwards?

Score very much flatters Leeds, we were the better team for the first hour, possession told in the final quarter with us going about 10 minutes without touching the ball what with penalties and drop-outs.
Positives; our forwards look mean, dangerous offloads flying out, defended our line fairly well for the most part.
Negatives; discipline(?), dropped off in the last 20, couple of sloppy tries.
If we play like that every week we will finish in the top 6.
Manfully losing at Headingley without our captain and our best player from last year is no disgrace.

Welham, but Watkins defended in field for some reason. Sinfield was marking Welham and had a stinker in defence.

I'm a Leeds fan and was there tonight. I think you guys can take a lot of credit from the game, you outplayed us in certain parts of the game and as we do, we pulled away in the last 20 minutes. Reckon you guys could be a threat this season. Con Mika and Mickey Paea look like good players as does Graeme Horne. Great following as well, provided a great atmosphere. Good luck for the rest of the season!

Tbh being in the crowd I couldn't tell how full it was, how many came from here, roughly?

Southstanders match report is positive.

You were very sharp around the ruck and your line speed in defence was very good in the 1st half.
You caught our right edge time and again and will cause team plenty of problems and given you had Green and Galea missing there are plenty of positives from this for you.
On the downside when we upped the gears your left edge namely Welham and Hodgson couldn't cope with Watkins and your discipline was poor no matter how easty dresses it up you were warned more than once by Bentham but couldn't resist holding on the couple of seconds too long and the dump tackle on Burrow was rightly penalised.

Isn't benduke a japanese facial?

Surely you're not suggesting easty's view isn't impartial?