Jesus H Mary, don't let Justiniho hear you, will be Challenge Cup, Grand Final & World Cup next year no doubt...and all the fans & Journalists will be laughing their socks off, such a popular man

if you have a look at the league table then it clearly shows that for the 09 season Rovers where a top 4 side. the table doesnt lie.

shame the top four sides are left in the comp. huddersfield finished above you so that makes you the 6th best side.

Truth hurts

Not as much as your season must have, ouch!

I'll get over it. You have to take the rough with the smooth.

and you have had alot of rough

Your permanent presence on here suggests not.

Warrington we took 4 points from.
Bradford 3
And Hull 4
Wigan 2

Can you be any more green eyed, bitter and twisted.



Ok lets join in with your daft way of thinking.
Your lucky you took points off Wigan and Hudds in the 1st five rounds then

Didnt refrain for very long though did you!
Anyway, 'mealy mouthed little weasels', bet that phrase hasn't been used on RLFans before so I guess originality is something you strive for, think you should have stayed off the HKR bandwagon if original was what you wanted and maybe tried the fast moving train being pulled by Phil Brown, sorry, have you already jumped off that one..........

Yes we have for 2 years.

Where some team have been pretty much s**t and won nothing of importance for the last 20 years.

not 23 out of 25 years though

You were well on your way to lower league obscurity until Gateshead saved you, so don't be too sanctimonious.

Probably before your time though.

No we wasn't and it was Colin Hutton who saved us



Or maybe it was Ian Pickavance and the fact we finished above Huddersfield on points difference

And your first three years in super league were hardly inspiring, remind us of your finishing positions, in what is commomly acknowledged as a far weaker league back then

please remind us were you finished in those same years?

No it is commonly acknowledged as being more of a level playing ground and closer competition.

It was far harder to progress due to the fact there was no salary cap. FACT

Rovers have been able to progress because they have a near full cap. Sky money has gone up and the cap has stayed the same.

It is far easier to come into super league and compete quicker now, as Rovers, Castleford and Catalans have proven

Yet while those teams have come into SL, Leeds and Saints have remained at the top end while your shower have stuck themselves in reverse and put their foot down.

Comply or die, my friend.

Is that the Castleford that went down, came back up and prompty went back down again.
Or the Catalans that finished rock bottom in their first season.
Rovers didnt compete in 07 they survived.

And 3rd in the 3rd year..

Doesnt fit with the point he was making.
Had they not had an exemption they would have gone down.

Maybe, but it supports the point of being able to come in and seriously compete due to the salary cap.

No it doesn't.

Catalans would have been relegated in their first season if not for the special dispensation and Cas would have been relegated AGAIN last season but for the licensing process, so if anything it proves his point to be completely wrong

Was the poster referring to when we had relegation or was he making a point that it is easier to compete and finish well due to salary cap nowicon_wink.gif

Thats very true, so I wouldnt have gone on a message board knocking Hull FC when they were doing better then us, makes you look stupid when you knock a team who is doing better then you.