Early days and the performance was solid enough. Long way to go before we have to hit the straps at the business end.
Build it up steady, picking up regular wins, using the full squad.
We're going fine.

Totally agree....

Not just Shaul's passing & ability to create , but the team needs upskilling in ball skill and attack -IMO..
We should have recruited an attack coach pre-season, but that ship has sailed...
If we had better ball retention, then we would do less defending, therefore we would have more energy..
Our attack heavily relies on a speculative Sneyd kick,or a piece of individual brilliance from Kelly,
we rarely go to our left edge, as we only have 2 pivots(central & right edge)..

Our defence is simply magnificent...

www.rugby-league.com/article/395 ... rs-charged Turgut charged with Grade C, Kelly got a warning. Walmsley grade A, Peyroux nothing (Unbelievably. Well, maybe not).....

www.rugby-league.com/article/395 ... rs-charged Turgut charged with Grade C, Kelly got a warning. Walmsley grade A, Peyroux nothing (Unbelievably. Well, maybe not).....

Are we being coached to think we can get away with this stuff??

Radders didn't look too happy when Turgut elbowed Walmsley in the head, so I'm guessing not.

Even though what Turget did was silly part of me was pleased to see a youngster stick up for himself against someone like Walmsley and he was looking for the ball up to then aswell.

Just don't want to go down the Wigan route

Anyone else quietly disappointed scrapping is such a big no no now? Would have loved to see Taylor and Walmsley slugging it out. Both were up for it after the knee slide on Carlos.

I'm not convinced Walmsley was up to it, big pudding comes to mind.

Kelly strikes with knee? Anyone remember this? Was it in the tackle, as he carried the ball in?

Yes i am, kind of. I have lost count of the number of matches I have watched that have gotten even better and faster following a bit of biff. I don't need to see the biff every week but occasionally it works wonders for a game

Great prop though, would love to have him coming off the bench for us, caused us lots of problems in his 2nd spell after the elbow from Turgut.

Sorry but elbowing a tackled player in the face isn't "silly" it's a dirty sh ithouse move and we'd not be describing it as such if another teams player did that to ours.
I hope the club/Radford hand out internal discipline for things like that. i don't care if he's XX age, he's been playing the game at a serious level for a long while and to react like that over what is pretty standard stuff in rugby at most levels (a hand up to the face from the tackler which had hardly anything in it anyways) is totally unacceptable, it most definitely is not what we expect nor want grubby players at our club.
I was surprised Radford only referred to it as a "brain fart", it wasn't, it was done with malicious intent, as I said i hope he's reprimanded internally for it.
As for the late head high shoulder charge on Sneyd going unpunished, typical RFL BS, if you can't even get a sin-bin for it (proven by the SOL one last season wasn't it?) we might as well pack all the player safety in and state it's a free for all.
The late knees to a defenceless player is yet more grubby sh ite we don't need in the game.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Funny thing is, he has spent the full off season slating Radford for not trusting in the youth last year, he does so this year and they let him down

turgut has just reported you for personal abuse

It's a parody account and all of the worst rovers fans have log ins

A " brain fart" is exactly what it was and hopefully he'll learn from the experience, something you find fairly difficult.
I'm also not surprised that Radders has 'surprised' you, aren't you getting used to it by now?
[iMater[/i can't continually keep wiping egg off your face, she should of used her elbow years ago.

I can't see how he had time to think "Om going to elbow this bloke as I get away from the tackle", as you say as did Lee, a brain fart.

"the full off season", ahahaha, don't let lies get in the way of your rant. I'd mentioned within relevant discussions that during his reign Radford hasn't trusted to the youth only really when forced to through injury at the back end of 2015, however I defended him (Radford) because of the situation he was in last year and stated that i hoped he'd learnt from that. That putting a lot of the youngsters out so often in the pre-season friendlies was a sign that he had.
if you'd bothered to read and understand you'd know that your comments are wrong and misplaced.
yes Turgut did let him down, that doesn't mean he shouldn't get another chance (and I never inimated he shouldn't) because he was doing well up until that point but discipline is what costs games and that kind of action is wholly unacceptable by any player.

Oh really, so when you sent me a personal message two seasons ago agreeing with what i had to say you thought I was a Rovers troll then...

=#FF0000For the love of whoever/whatever you believe in, will you all just stop this constant pulling apart of each other's posts. Agree or don't agree, I don't care, but everyone is entitled to their opinions so get over it or just click the unfriend button so you don't see their posts anymore!

On the subject of Turgut, it was stupid and idiotic and he could've lost us the game. I agree it was a 'brain fart' and I hope he'll learn from it, but it was also cowardly and if it had happened to one of our players then we'd have been in uproar.

Have to agree on the 'Brain Fart' issue. Thats all it was from a young eager player who probably wanted to show he isnt afraid to get stuck in or be intimidated by the opposition no matter how big they are.

It was dumb and culd have cost us but he will learn from it and Radford whilst not being pleased with what he did, will be pleased to see and young fringe player not be afraid/intimidated.

He has rightly been banned for a couple of games.

Will be an expensive lesson, Im sure internal repercussions will happen, so long as he learns from it. So, Widnes on Friday, not the walkover some think

No, you weren't as transparent then