At one stage in the second half, the Rovers physio/water carrier (the one in the orange top) was on the pitch for 4 consecutive sets of six, without actually administering any treatment, or giving out any water, just shouting out instructions.
This is getting beyond a joke, and needs to be clamped down on.

noticed it myself also happened with the pie water carrier at cardiff against saints....but neither had any bearing on the end results anyhow so leave em to it.

Its all part of the game today,all teams try to con the officials in some ways. Listened to the game today on the radio and credit to both teams for the perfomences they put in, but you must have been sweating a bit to pick up on this. Well done anyway and see you at Craven Park.

pick up on it, you couldn't miss it. Thought he was lining up a few tackles

Not really sweating, just a pity Morley never ran him over like he did to Ben Cockayne. That was a hit. A great game today and a fantasic showing for Rugby Leauge.

It happens so much in the game these days that I never even notice the water carriers anymore.

Clint Newton whilst being a very good player is a massive cheat the way he feigns injury all the time.

Talking about cheats hows Briers nowerdays?

and your point is?

Fine. Not too great today as Smith yanked him as he was playing crap. I hear his two challenge cup winners medals and lance todd trophy are sparkling though.

Briers is fine thanks. Had an off day today and the Lord Tony Smith

took him of for some self reflection and it seemed to do the trick as he was influential when he came back on.

Bit of debate around us today

Was Briers substituted because he was having an off day or because he was targeted by the HKR defence. There were a few marginal tackles, bordering on late on Briers in the 1st half in particular on the last tackle kicks.

Smith said because he was having an off day.

According to God on GMR it was because he was a little off with his performance today

Fair enough.

When I said debate it was more me saying it was a Smith masterstroke to keep him fresh for the business end of the game and everyone else telling me I was talking rubbish ( paraphrasing slightly ) and Briers was having a bad day ( again cleaning up the language a bit). They were right

Good man Smith, show's he's got backbone, and he's prepared to sub our most important player

I thought he (Briers) was doing his usual "oh we're playing Stains this week...better pretend I'm injured"

Masterstroke Smith

I agree, I reckon he cost Rovers the game today.

Maybe the reason they lost it late on was because the players were dehydrated because he hadn't been giving them enough water or administering treatment for their injuries.

I thought Briers going off tied in with KR getting a grip on the game. Although Briers coming back on gave Michael Monaghan the chance to run the game again. I loved the way Michael Monaghan got us on the front foot today. KR are a big unit collectively and we more than matched them. The tackle by Joel Monaghan on Fox was outstanding. Joel hit him at pace and with power.

Who cares? Bloke didnt do anything to interupt play, sure if it was an advantage to teams we'd do it too

Think about it? if it is not an advantage then why did they do it? I believe it was done to help spread the line of sight for our players. Facing 14 instead of 13. If it was not a problem then the RFL would allow the water carrier or Physio to remain on the field for the full 80 mins.

Briers clearly went off because he was nowhere near full fitness, and Smith knew he'd be more use in the final twenty minutes that in the armwrestle either side of halftime (regardless of what he said at the time).

The hit by Westwood on Whelham (think it was him anyway) was a cruncher

It is against the rules of the game and should be stopped I agree, I'd not like it if it was you guys doing it but this is the first time Rovers have used this tactic as far as I can remember in their SL era.

I thought the game was played very rustily by both teams and think we are not that far behind if anywhere behind Warrington on that performance. Both teams made errors they wouldn't normally make and blew tries they would usually have scored. This game could have been 54-52 and was an enjoyable game that I know most Rovers fans enjoyed.

Back to the topic though, whatever messages were being sent out there I think was due to Ben Fishers late withdrawl interferring with the game plan and us having to make changes to the team. As said I haven't seen us use this tactic before in the Super League and hopefully I won't again for Rovers or anybody else.

tell you what i didn't like, chester and someone else legging it on the field across the field of play as we were going through all them repeat sets near the end, when we got the drop out, no need at all for both of them to run on and call a sub off.

If the opposition does that can you send your own water carrier on to run behind their line as well?

He could shout stuff at them like "MAN ON", "GET YER TEN", "WATCH THE OFFSIDE", "WIN THE GRIND", then start spraying them with water from the bottle for laughs.