On a positive note it's due to be warm and sunny with hardly a cloud in the sky.

Oh no, hang on, it's going to chuck it down.

Damn, I'd heard it was Bobby Chariots, car back in the garage.

I won't be going. Don't think it is right to celebrate after a loss on that scale. The FC fans have every right to take the mick. On a side note. FC celebrate defeats by listing them in their club honours on their website.

I've ribbed them for that before, but I noticed the other day that Leeds do the same.

If I lived near to Hull, then the appearance from Bobby Bubbles might have swung it for me. I love the human scale of RL. Clarke's reading of Kipling's 'if' was a joy to me in 2013, ahead of FC's final. Just to avoid any doubt, I'm not being sarcastic or ironic - it really was.

Life is about making the best of what you have, and this is what we have. It might lack the brushed steel perfection of an Arsenal or a Manchester United, or even the red brick relentless success of Wigan or Leeds RL, but it is ours.

mild rover, sometimes all you can do is brush yourself down and smile, imo I hope you stay in sl which you will and we have our derbies next year, imo its great we have 2 teams in sl and long may it continue, yes we take the p.ss out of each other esp on weekends like this but your turn will come and ive got my tin hat ready for when it does,

I've never posted on here before but had to reply to that. I have read some absolute rubbish on rlfans but that takes the biscuit, please tell me it's a joke because if not you really haven't got a clue about anything

The next time it is our turn, I just hope it is us being good rather than you being poop. I'll take whatever is on offer, but it'd be nice. And when it turns again, I'd prefer you to have a high than us a low. Obviously, I'll try to belittle whatever you achieve - a little something that will no doubt make it sweeter.

Here is to the possibilities of a fresh, untrammelled future

Yes, it is a long-running joke.

This and his not having a clue about anything are not necessarily mutually exclusive, of course.

Rovers next fixture is always easy, and any victory is due to the failings of the opposition.

Opinion is divided on how funny it is. Jake clearly thinks 'quite'. Most others... well, I suspect that at best, there is a grudging admiration for his persistence.

At least one poster finds it very annoying indeed.

Welcome on to this forum my friend. Feel free to post again.

For the record, there is a whole army of Robins fans on here who agree with you about JTP not having a clue. He's a wind-up nobber from the dark side and he knows it. However, on occasions he deises himself sufficiently to make an insightful post, which still gets his arch nemesis Roversmad to bait back on here. The ensuing interchanges between them lurch from infantile derision to sheer contempt.

The post from JTP on here that prompted you to post is classic shizzle. File it and it's creator under PRAT and move on.

Please use one of the gloating threads on the Hull board. I know you have, but y'know exclusively. MR.

For the record, I'm posting this from the comfort of my own home. Not worried about a bit of rain, but I'm not prepared to "celebrate" epic failure. I believe that to do so is to encourage more failure. Just seen the shots on Look North. Well done to the 4/500 who are clearly are better fans than me & Mrs Stan.

Waste of council funds if you ask me.

Those councillors with their snouts in the trough of free (to them) alcohol and food will probably disagree with you though.

well said!
just how i felt in '06 and '09

Well I enjoyed it, wet through but I wouldn't have missed it

Feel free to counter anything I've posted

Chester out peacock in! Which diehard was shouting that at the reception? Haha

Didn't quite get the 20 or so black and whites that turned up, and the irony of the Briscoe 5 shirt wasn't lost on me.
Having said that it was quite a cathartic experience and am pleased I went.

Feel free to counter anything in the post

I don't have an arch nemesis on here. The poster you refer to is irrelevant to me and I never respond to anything he/she posts. There is no interchange

The tragic thing is that when Pearson took over at Hull we had their fans come over to the Leeds board telling us how he was going to put Hetherington in his place and how a guy with football experience would make the RL only Hetherington look amateur. He was also going to take him to the cleaners over the Luke Briscoe issue as well as have Hull charge up the table and be challenging for titles.

Skip forward to this weekend and the best thing they've had to celebrate in his tenure is the very same Leeds team who they were going to put in their place doing a number on their neighbours.

There is a picture doing the rounds of some FC fans there with balloons in the shape of a five and zero.

Maybe you could link us to these quotes

F.cuk off to the Leeds board and look for them. You're usually a dab hand at dredging up old posts.

Speaking of old quotes , a 10 year old , yes , 10 year old quote being recycled by the queen obsessive.

Big club mentality.

So you weren't joking

Right where do I start. You say we were fortunate against Wigan. Fortunate is not a word I'd use for the commitment shown in a game that nobody gave us an earthly of winning without one of our first choice half backs (Kelly). You also say we didn't have to beat anyone else of note to get to the final, Catalans and Warrington 2 teams who, if I'm not mistaken, sit above the "mighty" Hull FC in the current super league table and both of whom have beaten the said "mighty" Hull FC this season. Again, both of these victories without one of our half backs (our captain and main play maker Terry Campese). To your point of one quality player I'm not quite sure who you are talking about. Kelly? Campese? Sio? Maybe Super Leagues top point scorer until the split Mantellato? I'd say we have a couple of below average players at most, I'll keep my opinions of who they are to myself as it's all about opinions. That alright for you?