Can't fault the effort but how many minutes did Rooks/Shaw/Atkin Do? Similar feeling to the Salford loss,defeats in that manner are tough on fans and the team. Not going to moan over much it is what it is.. Lawler Garbutt standouts . We looked much better with Atkin on instead of Addy but again the plodder at hooker gets 60 min and the class player only 20. Baffled.

Just got in a typical rovers performance,look in control then go to sleep,back in a winning position and blow it
Junior vaivai is a luxury at centre,skillful,but way to slow for a centre,makes kris welham look like hussein bolt.

Amazing insights. I thought Rovers tried their nuts off despite only having 2 props. Disappointed but could/Should have won. We didn't.. I shall console myself by watching Pauli Paulis demolition job of a try from Friday again.

We spawned it against wakey as well,how did you get against them? Do you know the match is 80 mins long,because after 65 mins on friday your faithful had mostly gone home.

We had a few good moments, but lots of mistakes as well. Catalans were the better team for most of the match, despite being pretty scratchy too, but having got ourselves in close-to winning positions twice it was frustrating to see it drift away. Still, not a toys out the pram sort of performance imo, given the conditions.

I wouldn’t say the Sky coverage was biased but it was very much focused on Catalans and what this or that meant from their perspective. Bit wearing as well.

computer working again?

To be fair it was a good watch for the neutral.


You had Bird making up the numbers for you in the first half.
You missed him when he went off.

Well hudds got some stick about the cowbell on Thursday- but I’d rather hear that than the incessant booing from KR.

Typical Catalans time wasting.

Typical Catalans milking penalties esp 1st half.

Addy very poor.

Sheens substitution taking Atkin off for Addy changed the game when we were on top after Joel's try.

Both teams overplaying in 1st half.

Hope Lunt plays next week. Hooker is a mess.

Vaivai will be the scapegoat. Addy kept passing to him when he had 3 defenders to hammer him. Last was ripped out unseen by the officials.

So good you wrote it twice. No different to any old style RL ground with terraces close to pitch etc. The Wakey fans last week booed pretty much everything which is their privilege as paying home fans trying to support their team and maybe influence the ref? I can see why you would be confused and bewildered with the notion of this principle

Your left hand edge defence was garbage.

That could be a quote from any of last 6 season

your full team was on friday but you didnt comment did you

So was Catalans.

Yup we were turdmonger and got done which was disappointing after competing pretty well in our first 5 hit-outs.
It's the close ones that hurt the soul most though, innit?

That's correct. But I wonder how hdm and radio humberside would spin it if FC had as many players injured? Considering all this I thought it was brave if ultimately gut wrenching loss

Incessant? We booed a lot of Catalans time wasting (and Child just allowed it).

Roll on next week. Huddersfield are there for the taking and Sheens will want a response.

no its the ones you deserve to win that get you and we certainly didnt deserve that one, although a desperate ballsteal may have cost us any team worth their salt should be beyond that at home to the frogs

Weren't they the ones chasing the game?

Dangerous talk.
Everyone seems to be beating each other again apart from the top 2 or 3.

I’d rather listen to the ex and she’s a nightmare than that cowbell

They’ve had 3 extra days rest

Childs(surprise surprise) missed, or did he? the Catalan player knock the ball out of Viavias hand which gave them possession at a crucial time near the end. That said we are a dumb team. How many times do they cock it up on the first or second tackle and gift possession which too many times nearly always leads to a score. We have to learn how to close games out. It looks like another nervy season yet again. What does Atkin have to do to get some proper game time?
We need some wins and quick...Wigan, Leeds and Huddersfield will pick up.

I didn't say we'd win, just a lot more chance than against Catalans.

Depends on who we can field of course.