That explains the bottom line then.

Either that or Justin has no confidence in Watts, Spaven and Esders. You can see how the evidence available, ie playing Newton with 2 injuries, would lead the uninformed to that conclusion.

Terrible is probably the wrong word in all fairness. I thought he was totally ineffective. He dropped off a lot of tackles and the ankle tap you highlighted was down to a poor effort on Berrigan in the first place. The ball he lost was not stripped it was clearly a loose carry, he also spilled the ball close to the Hull line in the first half on the 3rd tackle and he was fortunate to get a penalty when clearly losing the ball in a one on one steal with Burnett.

The guy looks jaded as does Galea. GML stated he is carrying an injury so with Walker and Netherton fit there is no real need for them to play 80 mins every week.

Where as your team has no confidence in the coach who has no confidence in most of the players and no confidence in the fans who have no confidence in the coach,team or board in fact the only one who has confidence is kath confident she will one day have enough money to buy leeds

lovegrove needs signing up. our best prod whenever he has played this year. would have him over any other. including vella

And you went half way across the world to sign an aussie who you've already told wont be here next season because?????

We wanted to make Nick Fozzard look like a girl in the derby biff. Worked out pretty well.

blimey, the positives you've dredged from defeat are quite literally astounding. You'll be comparing the number of stewards next, or coming up with marks out of 10 for cheerleading...

A strange and seemingly pointless post as we have actually beat them this season



Still............keep clutching at them straws

So basically what your saying is that if Hull had the side playing that played us in the 1st Derby (except Lauiki) they would have beaten us, interesting as when you look at that game we won it...

Hull got a second wind after the lay off for the Briscoe injury, this gave them time to regroup, and for us to relax and think it was going to be a walk in the park. Hull played this game like it was a cup final from then on and we let them throw it about a bit and in the end they could have nicked it.. Basically we played very poorly for most of the game, Hull played as well as they could and we still won.. bottom line is if Hull play like that against hudds they'll get battered on Friday and if we play like that we'll get battered on Sunday.

On Topic, Rhys was outstanding again yesterday, by far our best prop although I thought Vella and Fozzard both played a lot better then they have recently.
Newts did ok, looked a bit tired and Galea looked Woeful again, I'd be tempted to leave him out on Sunday and give him a coupkle of weeks off.

Though Chev looked pretty good when he came on as well.

Not if you check the Hull side that played that day



Whichever way you look at it Rovers were pretty much full strength on Saturday and Hull were not by a long, long way.

...and of course the league table is utterly irrelevant.

What position did he play??

It was Clint who got the runaround so he was making up for his own mistake.

so if hull had been full strength with Hall not playing, moa not playing, whiting out of the squad, who were 3 of your best players then you'd have been better...good call.

The injury excuse is getting so tedious, after 24 months of it you must realise its not unfortunate it's poor conditioning, training techniques etc..

I'll guarantee by week 3 of next year it'll be the same old excuses again. Get players training properly and looking after themselves and they might stay fit.

Usually agree with a lot of what you say but, Craig Hall clearly punches the ball downwards.

Would be in my first choice 17 anyways.



Yeah ok then. Please enlighten me as to just what they are doing wrong.



I'll bookmark this just for you

I disagree, though it was a 50-50 call no doubt. I thought Clint at one point was trying to get the ball free for an offload and was not fully in control and Hall dislodged it in the tackle.

It was a tough call to make granted, but i think Silverwood got it right on this occasion.

Considering how many times the ball was "dislodged in the tackle" against us and it was given as a knock-on I dont really think Rovers can complain about that one.

This is where the Hull fans view of injuries falls flat, you'll quote Yeaman, washbrook and Briscoe as major losses and out injured then state they wouldn't get in the team anyway. I've even seen your lot claiming Thorman as one of the players missing.

So realistically how many of your starting 17 are injured...

Gordon is a Rovers fan. HTH.

Really??

You know its true.

Think you're suffering from the same imagination syndrome as Big Bender

Lovegrove excellent, Newton ordinary, Galea poor.