Great game yesterday to get our season underway (the weather eventually played in our favour!) Defence on the line was great, how bradford never went in more than they did is unbelievable. Was good to see players we missed last season back on the field & getting stuck in. KR site says Vella has a strained knee www.hullkr.co.uk/news.php hopefully we’ll see him back on the pitch soon, here’s to a quick recovery for him.

Great game yesterday to get our season underway (the weather eventually played in our favour!) Defence on the line was great, how bradford never went in more than they did is unbelievable. Was good to see players we missed last season back on the field & getting stuck in. KR site says Vella has a strained knee www.hullkr.co.uk/news.php hopefully we’ll see him back on the pitch soon, here’s to a quick recovery for him.

thought Scott Murrell was motm, followed by Fox who for me to his limited chances very well and then Walker whos defence has improved massively compared to last season.

mom for me was clint newton, he was outstanding throughout despite bombing that try off his break, but would agree that galea, walker, murrell, foxy and dobbo were all outstanding too.

TBF i thought he was pretty poor.

I thought he was solid defensively along with the rest of the team.
Our forwards had a real hard time against one of the best packs in the division. I was worried about our go-forward at times and the speed of the play of the ball but we were dominated in the forwards and found it hard going. It never helps when you have on of SL's best forwards missing for a fair period.

Clint is a lazy defender and time and again he was defending outside Welham and he regularly was defending no one as we were 3 on 2 in defence. He made a great break in the first half then ran away from his support and threw a poor inside pass against his angle of run. He also got dominated in most of his carries. I'm not just having a pop for the sake of it but i'm afraid i just don't subscribe to the Newton fan club and he has plenty to prove if you ask me.

He's not a bad forward just not as good IMO as some think he is.

Totally agree.

Clint has not played a SL game for a very long time so I can imagine he was trying to get in a breather at times by defending out wider than maybe he should be.

I thought he put in plenty of strong tackles but did get dominated alot going forwards.

He is a good player IMO and think we will see a far better player once he is upto full match fitness.

I like the player, but he has a lot to prove this season. His head wasn't with it last season, didn't seem to be in the country that often and then the injury saw him finish early.

I think he can be one of the best, if not the best in the league if he puts his head down and works hard. Time will tell.

By all accounts nobody trains harder or works on their game more than Clint at Rovers. His diet is stuck to 24/7 and he is a model professional, or so i'm told!

I think match fitness is sometimes under-rated by many. If you dont use it you lose it the saying goes, he hasn't had the chance to use it at the top level for a long time so he was bound to be rusty, given a few more games and I think we'll see a much better Newton out there I know Chev had injuries but its taken him a season to get back into good form but look at the way he's playing now if he keeps that up for the rest of the season he'll be in the England side no problems.

Just watching the highlights on SLtv. What about the blatant obstruction on Cockayne for their drop goal?!?!?!?!

Just watched it Alex, spot on.

By far the best game Newton put in was the game against Huddersfield in the CC he was immense. Hopefully he can get upto that standard again, though he did have a solid game, and i'm sure he'll come into it more with match practice. Seem to remember Mark O'Neill did the same. Unspectacular at the beginning but came really into it near the end, hopefully a full season with a real injury will do him wonders.

I tend to agree with the lazy defence, plus his attempts at outrageous offloads let him down. However if he sorts this out I thing he has the potential to be a top player.

How people can slate Clint

He made 36 tackles against Bradford.

Yeah they definatley missed Solomona when he had to go off injured!

to be onest i think the referee was a joke and gave bradford every reason to come back!

Yeah, but the lazy B'stard could've made 50



The guy is solid and I would have him on the teamsheet every week

watch deacons' dropgoal carefully, i didnt see the ball touch the ground, it looked like he just kicked it over

Bugga

that's why he was my mom, I thought he was awesome in defence along with galea, the pair of them are the reason we started so well last season our outside umbrella defence is brilliant with these 2 playing, it was only really when galea got injured then newton last season we started leaking a lot of points

if clint's lazy, justin should get down the dole office and sign some more like him

Came racing out the line for Bradfords first try did clint. No doubt hes a class player though.

i just watched boots n all, an Terry Newtons passing is awful, so many forward passes, its unbelievable he isnt pulled up more often.

watching Boots 'n' All, it really p*sses me off, when all they can talk about is how poor Wigan/Bradford was, never, and how they had players injured/missing etc, no mention of how Hull and KR played, or how good we both was, the coverage of RL is a joke!!