Atkin or what's the point of signing him

To play with Marsh in time as Danny will only last another couple of seasons at best. Atkin is better but Marsh needs game time if he has any chance to improve. As I've said its not as if there are queues of Aussie internationals waiting for job offers down Preston road.

I still do not think Marsh will ever make it in super league

Tim quoted as saying Atkin will start against Leeds. Right call for me.

You may well be proved correct, my point is that the young lad needs to be given the chance to fail & the chance to put it right. We just have no place in todays game for talent to be nurtured. One bad game & your career is over now.

Jack Walker at Leeds is what you’d class as young and looks every bit a first team regular. Matty Marsh is what, 23? And he looks a very average reserve, how long can he go on clinging on to the ‘youngster tag’?

I’d like to see Quinlan in the half’s and maybe moss at full back

Maybe if we do not get who they are after they might try him

Every chance you could give Salford a decent run for the wooden spoon after tonight's valiant efforts.
Comfortable for the Champions without getting out of second gear.

An early message from dingbat central I see...

second gear lol, there didn't get out of first,leeds where awful have never known a team drop the ball or knock on as much, the match was there for the taking,

That's how I saw it mate.
Leeds dropped the ball a hundred times and still won comfortable.

Can't fault the effort.
But the lack of pace, and persistent running back around the ruck, coupled with a no offloads policy. Means we're going to struggle in attack. Especially as we don't want to spread it out wide.
Think we need Moss at FB to give us something different.
Next week (a game I can't get to) is the important one.

There was some encouragement, buy a lot we need to improve on.

Agreed, Kr didn't look too bad though so may may win one or two matches.

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Uncle Tim has just confirmed they are still unbeaten.

Plenty of effort but poor with the ball and sheens got his interchanges wrong and fatigue of your front rowers cost you late in the first half when you were in charge of teh game.

mose masoe is a waste of a shirt but good to see tommy lee as one of your best players

Well done rovers, keep playing like that and you will be in super league in 2019. Wouldn't say best side lost, but game effort

A huge positive for Hull KR compared to last week is Atkins looks like he could be the partner McGuire needs, the lad played well I thought. Leeds were awful though apart from a couple of 5/10 minute spells, especially compared to the previous week and were there for the taking IMO. But like Leeds, you have to really put them away or they'll just manage to do enough.

I thought Hull KR, considering the rain held onto the ball more and managed to get through some sets which were an improvement over last week and put real pressure on an undisciplined Leeds team at times but just couldn't keep it going for the full 80 and a couple of those Leeds tries from Keinhorst I think Sheens would expect better.

Who knows if Leeds had one eye on the plane journey and the Storm but at least it was a game you were in it to win it.

I also liked the kicks offs you lot were doing, perfect for the conditions on that pitch and as was said on comms I bet we see more teams do the same when the conditions suit.

I'll send you something that you can write down your complete knowledge of rugby league on.
A postage stamp should suffice.

You'd be better employed sending that stamp to Uncle Tim, and here's what to put on it.
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Plenty of Curly turds getting erections over the result. We had enough possession to win that game fairly comfortably but weren't slick enough to convert a few overlaps and Heff going off probably contributed to a couple of their tries? Fair improvement from last week but steep learning curve and Leeds found a way to win again.Reminded me a little of the play off semi v Hull when Hull probably should have won but didn't. The decision not to review keinhorst 2nd try was baffling but then so was Shaws being ruled out?Ablett old manned the ref What a niggly swine he is but you'd love him in your side.They were a bit smarter than us but we showed some promise. Next week is massive .

Would agree with that,moss is too good a player to not have in the squad,and a better full back than quinlan imo.
The turning point was clarkson holdong on too long on the 5th tackle and giving a pen from which they scored and got some momentum,2 obstruction decisions,the ablett one at the end and exactly the same at the other end when the video ref wasn't even consulted when leeds scored to go ahead.Good effort all round and thought atkins was very good,and as i said earlier should have played against wakey imo.

The conditions dictated that we could not really spread the ball last night though, you wasn't going to get free flowing rugby from either team.

As for Moss at fullback, the kid can't pass. We play with quinlan joining the line as a playmaker so playing moss means a switch of tactics - why would we do that when massive improvements in performance with that team - I think it will be same 17 if everyone is fit. Potentially salter on bench because he could of come on at centre and been a bit stronger defensively then blair was.

Leeds didn't get out of 1st gear last night, they had to make well over 100 more tackles than Rovers, made a lot more errors, but still managed to score twice as many tries. 2pts squandered. #prayfortim

Not unlike your semi v them last season? The thing that buoyed me a bit was just how dissapointed the players looked at full time. They knew that game was winnable.Lots of good things from that performance and a good weeks training can see us improve again next game.You could and have spun it to take all the negatives and do your normal hatchet job on KR but I saw enough positives to suggest we will be ok?Saying that if we stink v les Cats then maybe hard to keep PMA?