Wakey by 4.
Att 8,500
Mom Cockayne.

He's away on his jols!

should be a free parking space then

The weather report doesn’t look good. It's going to struggle to get above zero all week, only come Sunday morning do we expect the temp rise slightly. This weeks high/lows;

Wed 1/-5
Thur 2/-2
Fri 1/-1 (snow)
Sat 2/-1
Sun 4/1

It's hard to see how they can keep the pitch playable if them temperatures are right. Here hoping!

Another tough one to call, which is great and shows how far we have moved on from last season.
I just hope we get a good +8000 gate and we don't shoot ourselves in the foot.
I recall last season following our shock win in Rnd 2 at Catalans, our first home game, against Salford, i thought we stood a good chance against them and we got our butt's kicked well and truly on a boggy BV pitch.
I'll stick my neck out for a narrow win, 28-24.
MoM - Aiton (my default setting this season!!!)
Fine weather hopefully and 8100 attendance, HKR bringing only the 8000!!
Fingers crossed for a good competative game, and something for us to build on.

Have rang twice a day all this week and today I was told by your reception I am not the only one awaiting a return call from Mr Longo......who I am told is the only one who can grant a parking space.

David has now rang me and its all sorted now ......thank you Mr Longo .....btw you have a good one there in charge wish every club had someone as dedicated to the clubs cause as you have with him!!!!

That's not great then - hope it gets sorted for you.

as a gambling man theres no way you would have got 26/1 on city to win that game i remember it and the best price you could get was 11/1 and thats a big price for 2 teams in the same division and why are you always talking rovers down on other sites just latley

As I said "unfortunately" as I would much prefer you to win, being a Black and White myself. I think you can read more into their performance against the champions (despite losing) than your win over a team fresh from the championship. I hope very much that I'm wrong however.

All the best for the rest of the season.

I would expect them to be a tougher prospect than Widnes but I think we can give them a tough game.
Expecting a close one again.

It will be alot harder game than Widnes plus we'll miss Amor, HKR by all accounts have some good strong forwards this season while we're a lot lighter and still gelling as a team. Please if we win but not too disheartened if we lose aslong as we keep improving as a team and give their all for the shirt.

Good to hear it, glad its all sorted.

Being an FC Fan would love a Wakefield win but very worried that Kr's Pack might have the edge in this one

on the plus side im sure cockayne and fox will want to prove to kr it was wrong to let them go. And im sure washbrook will want to get one over on kr as well.

Poor comparison in terms of quality, but the Widnes pack was bigger than ours and we beat them with high energy and quick ptb's; they were blowing out their backsides in the second half, hence the rash of penalties.

Certainly going to be a tougher ask on Sunday, but I think it'll be a contest.

Think i'll go;

Trin 28-20 KR (Later try for Wakey to seal the deal)
MOM: Collis
Attendance: 8,674

Wakey 32 28 KR
MOM John
Attendance 104,538 (Made up by the travelling 100,000 from humberside)

I had £5 on it with the big baldy bookies and won a cool £135, the bets were there to be had if you were early enough putting then on, a mate got higher odds as the Man Utd game went much the same way odds wise, did that one end 2-2 or 2-1 to City?

I'm just being realistic with regards HKR, we've a new squad and important players missing, had Blake been fit I wouldn't think twice about the result, Dobson's got alot on and is missing kicks for fun.

This has the potential to be a classic as i dont think there is much between the teams. Our team especially the pack showed a level of commitment and professionalism last week that i have not seen in yonks. By the looks of things our players are a determined, gritty bunch that will make life uncomfortable for most teams hopefully. Wakey just against KR i hope.

I'm glad that Cockayne went because of his off field issues, if they hadn't happened I think we would have resigned him.

Letting Fox go was a mistake, but Morgan treated him quite badly last year so it was probably as much his choice to go as ours.

He certainly knows where the try line is and another couple this weekend would be cracking

Very tight game i think, weve certainly got the advantage at hooker imo.

this is a close one to call. i think the loss of amor is massive to us, as we don't have a big pack anyway, but it is getting smaller and smaller...

for probably the first time ever i am hoping for dry conditions to see wakey throw the ball about. if its wet and muddy, our pack will not cope, but if its an open game.....

heart says wakey, head says KR - head wins - KR by 4

think we are in for a good game....

You can't read too much into last week, but we looked much fitter in the second half, wether that is a result of the interchange rule/smaller forwards, i don't know.
It will be interesting to see wether a big forward is any more a advantage/disadvantage on a dry or muddy pitch.

i think we can read that we are a fit side. given that we took a serious battering on our own line AND STILL came home with a wet sail by a decent margin suggests we are fit.

Rovers to win - 24 - 6
MoM - Kris Welham

Sandercock has our guys working on defence and discipline this week so I expect to see improvement in both areas. I reckon our pack will improve on last weeks encounter with Leeds, and will build a solid platform to allow Dobbo, Hall and Withers space to weave their magic.

I thought Wakey did a job on Widnes and expect to see an improved performance but they will defo miss the services of Amor. Charlie will be up for the game but expect Foxy to be targetted and exposed by our wide players. Wakey's work rate will need to go up a fair few notches if they want to register back-to-back victories.

It will be a hard fought arm wrestle in the first half, but Rovers forwards will dominate and we will pull away from Wakey in the second half.