It was very busy in the T.O. yest. Phone never seemed to stop and a decent que infront of me when i arrived.

Sweet.

Maybe looking at 18,000+ eh.

We all know that you lot will bring at least that anyway!

Always Elland Road if they could arrange it at short notice?

Yes it was all the phones going and 3 on the desk!!
Should be a big crowd!!

1986 was a killer Challenge Cup comp right up until the SF replay for us and the Final for you.

Best I've ever seen a Rovers team play that at ER!

30-Jan-86 ..... CC..... PRE..... Won 8 - 30..... Swinton V Leeds
9-Feb-86 ..... CC..... 01..... Won 4 - 24..... Halifax V Leeds
23-Feb-86 ..... CC..... 02..... Won 10 - 28..... Doncaster V Leeds
16-Mar-86..... CC..... QF..... Drew 10 - 10..... Widnes V Leeds
19-Mar-86..... CC..... QFR..... Won 5 - 0..... Leeds V Widnes
29-Mar-86..... CC..... SF..... Drew 24 - 24..... Hull KR V Leeds
3-Apr-86..... CC..... SFR..... Lost 17 - 0..... Hull KR V Leeds

All those games and we never even got to the final and Jeff Grayshon missed his last chance. And to think when he came to Leeds that season he had the choice of signing for the Robins. Poor ba5tard.





I always thought the Premiership Final at Headingley V Hull in '81 was right up there in front of a monstrous 29K+ . Eddie Waring's last BBC commentary.

Briscoe, Murrell, Webster, Galea all facing last minute fitness tests and all very doubtful

Scott Taylor will come in for his debut

do you risk them and risk losing them for the season?
big call .

i hope turnstyle webster plays out of the four of them

I take it you don't watch many Hull Kingston Rovers games

only whats on sky mate.looks great going forward but you let in a lot of trys down his side.not the best defensivly

He's superb defensively, you want to hope he doesn't play so that Chev is in the centres

he always gets picked out on boots n all for his defence. saw the game the other week, can't remember which one, and he was terrible in defence

He's been absolutely smashing everything that moves just lately, the last really poor game he had positionally was the Magic Weekend

Briscoe
Webster
Cockayne
Galea

All Missing, Scott Taylor to make his debut

Link?

Believe me, this is the case

No need not to just wondered if it was officially announced anywhere as i can't see it.

No it hasn't mate, and now I think we are fooked

It is the case Phils source is pretty water tight.

1.Fitzy
2.Fox
3.Welham
4.Walker
5.Colbon
6.Cooke
7.Dobbo

Our back line looks pretty strong although Walker is no longer a centre and I'd have liked to have seen Colbon put there with Fitzy onto the wing and I'Anson at full back.

Our pack however is going to look like a dogs dinner IMO, Murrell starting hooker, I'Anson at loose man, Vella into the second row with Scott Taylor coming off the bench.

I tough night at the office as I suspected earlier in the week is going to become much much tougher. Hope its a calculated risk that means our players are fit for the next game at home after this one!

Same here bud, we really don't stand a chance.

I hope that the Rhinos don't believe that.
We've already lost at home this season to 2 teams who didn't have a chance viz. Harlequins & Salford.
Whatever side HKR put out I expect will acquit themselves with pride. Morgan seems to have instilled a belief in the jersey that we need to match.
I do expect us to do that but we must not play as if all we have to do to win is to turn up.

It would make a fair amount of sense for Hull KR not to give 100% tonight where defeat is on the cards regardless.

It's a weakness of any system that has second chances built in.

Well done lads, great performance!