Here's a question for you, is your team better than the one which played in the 8's last year?

Last year we'd had a relatively easy ride to the eights and cause for optimism after winning most of our games. This year we're likely to have been battered in almost every game and go into the eights used to losing. The team might be a bit better but the situation almost certainly won't be.
Anyway the Easter games are on HKR tv so there's a treat for me eh? I've hidden all the sharp instruments and got the phone number for the Samaritans to hand, just in case.

It should be a bit better as McGuire been added but then again so has Tommy Lee

After the pathetic performance v wigan,all the optomism from the huddersfield win has gone and my original tip of the bottom 2 looks back on.We are unlucky in the fact our 4 best players are all missing,maguire,heffernan,mulhearn and lunt are all absent,blair,masoe and dagger, would be our best yesterday.Shaw may be a good kicker,but defensively hopeless,wigan must have looked at the wakey video and all you need to score is attack the shaw wing,matty marsh is championship at best and isnt moss wasted at york.?
Apart from blair and in short bursts masoe and the steady clarkson, the rest are are bog standard,greenwood has become a penalty machine,as I said pre season the bottom 2 beckons unless maguire,mulhearn,heffernan and lunt,can stay fit and give us some hope.

I agree!

Marsh has played 3 games. We've conceded 30,30 and 40 with his right side a shambles. He defends too far in and doesn't talk. Had a massive chance in the derby and never turned up. Feel sorry for him but chances running out

and the award for the longest most pointless post goes to...

He made some very valid points. Why dont you make a relevant contribution to a thread instead of derailing as usual?

stick to your penalty count stats cretin

The problem is, we will probably still be in that position come the end of the season. Top players will only go to a club if they know for certain where it will be playing the following season
At the moment it looks like we will be fighting for survival once again which means we could struggle to attract the players we will require.

You lost me when suggesting that Carney isn’t interested. The bloke never gets a pass and has to scoot for a living. Check out his meterage stats and then come back and tell me he’s just here for a pay day. In a decent team he would still be scoring for fun.

For me it was the manner of the derby defeat rather than the defeat itself. Beat Widnes and we are probably where we thought we would be.The Leeds Cats and FC games points thrown away that would change how we perceive our season so far. I have no problem venting frustration and have in here and other forum but the real problem with these last few topics is the Curlies are wading in and putting boot in alongside a few b&ws pretending to be KR fans.As i say win v Vikings and things look a little better.Lose and it does look bit grimmer

I think there are far too many people venting with knee jerk reactions to what was a disappointing Easter weekend.

Did anyone really expect to beat Hull before the game kicked off? The manner in how the team failed to make the numerical advantage count to secure an unexpected win was the start of the negativity.

Did anyone expect the team to get the points away at Wigan? The shoddy show was lacking in the effort that even in defeat we’ve come to expect from a Tim Sheens team. Should he have rotated the squad much more? The performance suggests he should have, the result would probably have been the same and many would be fresher for Widnes; but hindsight is a wonderful thing.

The biggest lesson learnt imo: Atkin is a great prospect BUT is not ready to be the dominant half back at SL level. Sign another Lui type half back and let Atkin cover when the inevitable injuries occur. He needs a couple more seasons experience at this level yet.

Similarly, If Hull had beaten wigan, leeds, cas and salford things would look a lot better

The worry for me if I was a rovers fan would be that everyone else has a better squad than you but hudds and les cats are currently under performing. if they pick up their form (particularly les cats who have a top 8 squad) then you could be in trouble. It's difficult tpo say how strong the championships sides are but toulouse, london and toronto are going well so the middle 8's could be the most competitive yet

But you aren't.

No but I can empathise with those less fortunate than myself

It seems a lot of you can and are

Any fan from any club can look at a defeat and say if this if that take some positives out of it but the reality is Rovers are in bottom two for a reason ..they are not good enough how anyone can say they can still make top eight is laughable. The wizard Sheens has lost his wand ,he lost it years ago. When you sign second rate injury prone players then your asking for trouble

BINGO

watching rovers it's pretty obvious why sheens can't get an NRL gig

Sheens Hudge Peacock seem to attract the ire of you Curlies? Just enjoy your turnaround.Pre Easter you guys were doom n gloom and Jake and DGM aside passive on here.Now all smug gits wading in because you feel confident again.We will see on Friday how good your team is

curlies?

Getting Wigan away on Easter Monday was the last thing we needed and with a lot of injuries we couldn't even bring in fresh players. The outcome was almost inevitable, we kept it to 0-0 for 27 minutes but the energy ran out and then it wasn't a contest.

Would Huddersfield, Catalans, Salford or Widnes have done much better, I doubt it and I agree that we are in a 5 team mini league the prize being 8th place. Not saying we will come out on top of that group but certainly it is still all to play for, we have 4 games left against those teams 3 of them at home.

The Saints game saw us lose McGuire, Lawler, Heffernan and Mulhern for the entire Easter programme to add to Shaun Lunt and Danny Addy. It was bad enough going into the derby without that lot but to back up on Easter Monday at Wigan really was too tough.

The good thing I suppose is that Wigan away is a probable loss anyway and in the circumstances we may well have lost to more modest opponents.

It's going to be tough of course it is but right now is a low ebb and there will be better moments for sure. If we do end up in the middle 8's I think we will be OK. London have been going great but with much the same team that couldn't live with us last year.

As for Sheens I do wish that those who criticise could spend 10 minutes in his company they would soon change their minds.

How do Standee? It's a bit like Dobbins. Just a play on words Airlie Birds = Curly Turds. Could be took offense at if of a delicate nature nowadays I suppose? Heard it years ago and just one of many names we each have for our neighbours.