Spot on post.
Some people expect us to win the Super League every year.
We are a competitive SL team going through a loss of form and confidence at the moment.
Nobody likes to lose games but there are 13 other teams just as desparate for success as what we are.

how can anyone recruit now? players are all signed up, salary caps are full, who exactly should Rovers go out and sign??? for Rovers its a case of making do with what they have, be it Murrell or Bell. missing Dobson doesnt make players miss tackles or knock on does it?

Mason in a team with no confidence & going backwards??

Looks like you soap dodgers will see the real Willy Mason for the distabilising knob that he is

distabilising knob

which is what your trying to do on here!!!!

anyway, cabman's opinion is irrelevant to me anyway, so thats out the way, i think we HAVE to give bell a shot, more natural than scott murrell even if no experience, and mason should be spelled, theres enough in the squad to give him a breather, still fear the next month, cant see a win coming soon, hope i'm wrong!

Excellent. In one sentence you refer to us as soap dodgers and go on to show yourself up as an illiterate lout.
Quite an own goal.

Well Done Trace.
Do you feel better now you have be able to say that?
Its been clear you have been looking forward to it.

Anybody who resorts to insults to make a point Mark, hasn`t got a very good case in the first place.

Shut up you doylem

Judging by you silly comment, i would suggest that you add, (and empty) between the words open and road, your username imo, would then aptly describe that space between your ears

why in the hell would you spell Mason???

I'll take every comment you say about me with a big fat grain of salt, a useless, uninterested big head like Mason needs all the time on the paddock that you can give him, if you are to get any use out of him ( & you wont ) you need to get him match fit, i cant believe someone who thinks he knows rugby league would even suggest you spell a player like Mason who is short of a run



You flog his guts out & bar him from every pub in town, not that you'll get much response, a big head like Mason will run his own race, he's there for a holliday, or didnt you even realise that???....ohhh & the moneys alright also, thanks Hull

Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse, I thought I'd cheer myself and watch our play off victory against FC from last season.

We f'king lost

Why? Mason doesn`t play for us.

Well said! This is just a temporary blip in form, every team has them, why should Rovers be any different. Im 100% convinced we'll be in the mix come the end of the season

So you can put his name on the back of your shirt?

Funny how all the theories come out whenever we hit a bad period of form.

Dobson is our main creative player so of course he is badly missed but it doesn't explain poor defence which to me has been our main failing.

Newton couldn't stop us losing at home to Catalans or at Castleford so the failings were there while he was still in the team.

We are playing now like we did during the middle of last season when we got a few heavy beatings funnily enough with Dobson and Newton in the team every time.

WE came through that period and I am quite certain we will come through this one too.

The problem is we were hoping there would be no 'bad periods' at all this season so to suffer one this early is very disappointing.

For the very top teams (and there are not many of them) one defeat is a bad period. Clearly we are still someway short of that and we hoped we wouldn't be, but the task is not easy.

But all the current theories will melt away when Rovers hit a good period which they definitely will do with or without Dobson & Newton.

i didn't go on friday night but from the home games and Cas away that i've seen we are unusually poor defensively which is worrying the f#*k out of me. Look at Saints on Saturday night, they were scrambling and fighting like mad to protect their line and we just don't seem to have that at the minute. We may miss Dobson's organisation in attack but he doesn't (for me anyway) have the creativity that Blake Green or Galea have. we need to get our defence in order quickly ready for Huddersfield or it will be worse than 30-0 this time! I'd rather see 8-8 than getting beat 32-30.

But we do know just how to tackle dont we ?
Warrington away,ok we lost but defense was great wasnt it ?
Seems to me like a slump and yes it is a bit early but we will come thru it.

Eh?

We haven't fielded our first choice 17 once this season

The closest we came was Cardiff when only Mason was missing. Since then we've lost Fisher, Vella, Dobson, Newton, Clinton, Colbon, Fox and Webster for reasons including but not exclusive too injury and suspension.

We have been more than a score in front in all of the games we've lost so we are competing in games to an extent. We are just switching off from the good position we are putting ourselves in

Talk about clutching at straws

It's the truth, we've put ourselves in the position to win all the games.

Or all the other team got themselves into a losing position with the better ones managing to turn it round.