We have Scott Mikalauskas as our ref this weekend. Rovers had him last weekend against the Bulls, when they say, he did quite a good job.

Have seen Scott a fair few times in C1. I've always been impressed, there's a reason he's flying through the ranks. No-one is perfect, player or ref, but he's plenty good enough for this level.

Should be a good atmosphere. Rovers have sold out their allocation of tickets behind the sticks and I'm told your on-line ticket sales are busy. See you at the weekend!

No Roqica or Offerdahl from last week.
Replaced by Evans and Pointer.
Gee & Pearce-Paul make up the squad.

Would love us to win this but my head says a 16-20 point loss.

Hope I'm wrong!

Injured, rested or tactical???

Surely not rested? got to assume injuries, both big losses i would have thought, pack will be less experienced and lighter - couldnt have picked a worst game...........

Roqica was so far off the pace it was untrue, and to a lesser degree so was Offerdahl. I reckon Roqica was left flat footed and floundering in defence three times at least - great going forward though.

Pointer was always going to get back as we need two hookers. I think it is excellent that Hendo drops players who are not performing. Evans is very experienced. In Hendo we trust.

Junior's second shift against Swinton was left very very late so it is quite possible the coach wasn't happy with him.

At the time I thought it was tactical to put him against a tiring defence as an impact player. Also Eddie was having a good game so keeping him out made sense. Looks like there was more to it than I thought.

Mark was ok I thought but certainly nothing special.

It is good that we have a squad which allows Hendo to make these decisions. It should keep all the players on their toes.

We're best priced 9/2, with KR at 1/7...... Hmm....

Great effort but a narrow defeat.

Looking forward to getting Api back in the side soon, possibly at loose forward??

Seems you took the odds on favourites to the wire, maybe it won't be the cakewalk many of the dobbin fans think it will be

Despite the loss that was a thoroughly enjoyable game of rugby league, don't think kr won that we lost up to that last minute the penalty count was 10 3 you cannot give away that many free mtrs and still win, 3 missed scoring opportunities blown in the first half.
purtell awesome, Dixon poor

HKR scored all but one of there tries of our penalties. We need to get on top of that.

HKR are nowhere near as good as Leigh were last year. The will get picked off by teams as we go through the season. The pass round the back to the right was the only attacking move they had.

Early days, nothings won in Feb.

Didn't expect a win and thought KR would overrun us in the 2nd half- but they didn't! Was impressed with how we dug in and pushed them all the way. Shame about the penalty count- still feel the 50/50 decisions went against us, almost inevitably. Purcell was excellent I thought. The
However, a really enjoyable game, especially 2nd half- a lot of good things to come I feel certain. A lot of Robins fans saying things like ' we got away with a win' leaving Ealing.

There is no question they did. We committed suicide with the penalties we gave away.

giz a grape

2nd competitive game for an almost new look side against the team that are odds on to push us all the way for 1st, yet still came away with the victory in a below par performance. How many times are you hoping we'll be picked off?

This team is still to get in to its stride, and we'll be very hard to beat in another 5 games or so when the team comes together more.

In one breath you say its a new side that has hardly plaid in the other its under performance, How do you know??

Because the potential is there for all to see. This team plays at a quicker pace then that of our SL class of 2016. The potential is there, it may not get fulfilled, but going on the basis of potential, then that was a below par performance. Our second rowers for instance are proven performers at SL level and are yet to have a decent game so far, but it will come.

In reality the 50/50 calls were not 50/50 they were justified calls, we lost the game pure and simple.
but looking at the positives, if we are led to believe that KR are going run away with this comp then on todays performance we are not a long way behind. We played at a gear higher than anything last year, I think our defence was actually pretty good, and as said most tries came off the back of penalties.

Micky, you're always full of surprises!

But then you shouldn't be far behind, you're odds on to finish second, a full time outfit, settled squad with SL aspirations. The result today is what you'd expect of a top 2 clash, close and competitive. Good for the Championship.

Rovers were poor today , 3/10 at best , and we were probably fortunate to leave with the points.

Rest assured not only will we improve , we'll also strengthen significantly.