I saw my first game in 1962 and I’ve waited over the weekend to gather my thoughts before posting. I never expected us to win but this was the most spineless, gutless performance that I have ever witnessed. Do the players comprehend the amount of ridicule that they have inflicted on the club? Do they even care? They played without pride; passion; effort; determination; grit; energy and will to win. Not one player put a shift in. I don’t buy into the “we froze on the day” excuse. Castleford didn’t freeze last year; Hull FC didn’t freeze against Wigan. These are professional well paid players and I expect and demand 100% from every player 100% of the time. We had experience on the pitch in McCarthy; Welham; Lunt; Tilse etc. I expect one of the “experienced” players to say “I’m not having this”. To lead from the front; put fire into the bellies of the other players; hit harder in the tackle; fight to stay on my feet when tackled to attempt an offload; support the player with the ball not stand with my head down with my hands on my hips feeling sorry for myself. To me Chester is not the man to take the club forward and I wouldn’t blame Peacock for saying thanks; but no thanks. I’m off somewhere else. My first call would be to Justin Morgan. Please come and get us out of this mess otherwise next season will be yet another struggle to get into top eight!

If you are on twitter you will understand why it was done and not surprising it was a Rovers fan who bought a flag. And took it to the KC, that backfired for him. It's only a bit of fun.

Nope I was decorating

Take more than a few of them to stop me, we were accused of being a small club for focusing on them, we've had the financial gain line thrown at us when they've lost , tables seem to have turned.

Yeah. And we've been told for years that getting to a final is pointless if you don't win it.

Still wondering why the banter?

A Rovers fan thought it would be great banter to put a banner up at the KC before he left for Wembley. Hence all the banners from FC fans after the result.

Banter backfire, nothing more. Admittedly on an epic scale.

So lets get this straight. It is perfectly acceptable for some one to drape flags over the FC shop in Saville Street and also outside our home stadium pre game. But, it is not acceptable to any form of retaliation???

Ok then.

The whole flag thing has definitely caused a bit of a talking point, but was factually correct. We were at Wembley, and FC were at home. I hate to use the word Banter, but that's what it was and it got folk in Hull and the media in general talking about it. So it did what I suppose it was designed to do. The fact Rovers then went and cocked it up then gave the FC fans the perfect opportunity to strike back and they have, and if the boot had been on the other foot then exactly the same would have happened I've no doubt.

Exactly right.

My take is the same as it was for us in 2013, forget the final and just remember the great day of the semi final. Take a positive.

Got to say I feel the city hall thing today is a complete joke though, should only ever have been agreed to if you had have won.

I'm afraid they did. Despite my obvious disappointment I thought it was quite amusing that your fans went out in the p*ssing rain to hang "you'll never win at Wembley flags" just accept it as banter. What goes around comes around.

Take a little longer, I saw plenty of effort from your guys. Kelly was stand out and Dixon, even though he was having a mare, never stopped trying. The try saving tackle on Hall by Sio? was awsome, not many stop Hall from there 1 on 1.



Not a chance, won't back away from a tough situation. Great addition to your coaching squad.

I know Saturday was a tough day for you guys, but give it some time. You had a brilliant run to the final taking some big scalps along the way, that didn't make you a brilliant team any more than losing to an on fire Leeds team makes you a crap one. You are a work in progress as are all other teams. See you next year at HQ

Peacock isn't joining the coaching staff.

Marcus and rural robin spot on with your posts lads, am sure your time will come to give it back, just hope it isn't to soon lol

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Sorry mate, disagree strongly with you here and agree more with Kiljoy. All talk beforehand was about Rovers needing to bring their A game to the final and leave every ounce of effort on the field in order to beat Leeds.

For me, it was our Z game, akin to our turgid performance against Halifax 2 weeks earlier and not those higher octane performances against Wigan, Catalans and Warrington in the earlier rounds. It was flat, uninspiring, lacked speed and urgency and was tactically sterile.

Albert Kelly was bang average, Maurice Blair pedestrian, Shaun Lunt bang below average and Kieran Dixon a mistake-ridden liability, despite his quick feet and fluorescent yellow boots. John Boudebza was OK when he was on the field.

So the creative spine of our team didn't create or kick well enough and the forwards didn't really sweat blood for the cause. Our fringe attackers weren't good enough in both attack or defence. Apart from a 10 minute period in the final quarter, when Leeds went 32-0 up, we didn't up our intensity levels to try to score and then Dixon bombed a clear 2 man overlap on the right 10m out to go it alone and later coughed up 2 further possessions to bring the total number of gift tries on the day to 5.

Leeds were outstanding in every aspect.

Nothing more to say other than for me there were no positives in our performance on the day whatsoever. We created CC history for all the wrong reasons. We are better than that. Most impartial or realistic observers know it. We failed on all levels and let our fans, RL neutrals and the watching public down very badly. I'm really upset.

Leeds got 52 v London in 99

I've never said it's not ok, just that we've been told for years that it's little club syndrome focusing on your neighbours. I'll admit I didn't know about the banner on the kc, that's pretty pathetic and setting yourself up for a fall, the only positive I can think that will have is the invoice Allam will send to Pearson for taking it down

Anyone know when the final DVD will be in the club shop? Think I'll buy goundrill it for Christmas.

The Windows above your little shack belong to our shop. We can hang whatever we like from our own Windows.

Yet you insisted it was getting there that mattered. Are you now admitting you were wrong?

I've never insisted anything of the sort, nor am I arguing the opposite now. Merely pointing out the double standard employed by many of your fans in the wake of the weekend's debacle.

That said, you have to be in finals to win them and the financial benefit is substantial. Some compensation at least, although I can say that while sitting through our no-show in 2013 I did wish we'd never made it there in the first place.

Never said you couldn't. Has the shop been re-let yet?

At least you made the final and picked up some good scalps on the way.
The rhinos have put 40+ points on Saints twice this year.
49 points on Warrington.
48 on Huddersfield (best defence in the league)
and.......
43 points in 40 mins second half on Hull FC as well as beating them 4 times this year.
Not many teams could have lived with Leeds last Saturday.
Your time will come.

Not unless it's been re-let to Rovers, no.

I can understand the Hull fans taking the pee ( I would have done the same ) I can even understand them putting banners on the bridges (I couldn't be bothered personally ) but to get up on a bank holiday go spend some money on balloons travel into town in the rain to take the pee out of your rivals losing a final is one of the saddest things I've heard and shows a real small club mentality something they constantly acuse us of

I totally agree, but it was I reckon about 20 of them max. And out of a fan base of several thousand, there are always going to be a few who think it's clever and original. Like you say the majority of us wouldn't be bothered, but every side (even ours) has its share of loons. They only made themselves look stupid heckling from the back and doing a bit of pantomime booing. Bless them!