Best chance for Dobbins to win a GF. As others have Saints Wires Cats be better. Wigan still around. Plus by then we be up and running ha ha. Dobbins 2 finals bottled both. Commiserations to Moanaire who be sad at his fav team getting beat.

Respect the front of Wigan bringing the other 3 trophies

Thank God Winter would have been unbearable after a week of that new rovers guy in the Mail saying it was all but won and some outlandish stuff from some at the Rovers whilst Wigan just kept their council and prepared immaculately, don't know what I enjoyed most Wigans defence or Lewis blubbing on Humberside afterwards!

Peters should ask the coach of the year how to win things……oh hang on.You win 3 trophy’s and don’t get it instead it goes to a midget whose team bottles it in big occasions…since rovers beat Wigan the cup semi…Wigan have won ever trophy available and rovers are still 40 yrs waiting

really?

Odd to think that one of Wigan's rare defeats this year came at the hands of our useless shower!

How on earth did that afternoon pan out the way it did? It's still a surreal result from both sides of view!!

About as accurate as your prediction that the only 10k attendance we'll get next year will be the derby.

Do feel sorry for kr fans skipping meals to go to old Trafford.
Kr did give it a good dig but they really do need an organiser if they’re ever going to win a trophy.
Thankfully we wont have our resident dobbins perched on here for a few months.

Yes, I'll concede that! I was holding back a feeling of intense schadenfreude. The wine (not Liebfraumilch I hasten to add) does taste particularity sweet tonight.

The next bit of comedy will be seeing how the latest temporary golf stand compliments the rest of the shabby chic carbuncle. Lipstick on a pig springs to mind

So there’s no trip to Vegas or Sydney
But at least they got a challenge match against York in Rotterdam.

If there's one depressing statistic to come out of tonight, it's the fact that only four clubs have now won the last 35 rugby league titles, going all the way back to Widnes in April 1989.

The game really does need someone to shake up what seems to be an entrenched established order, just as long as the someone isn't them

I don't want to dwell on their misfortune but is the customary plucky losers homecoming event still going ahead?

The last one wasn't that well attended I seem to recall.

That's a great point. The lack of competitiveness is one of the reasons the game is in trouble.

the most commen factor in those winners, they produced /produce their own, even Bradford had home produced players, quick fix buying still not the magic solution

We ain't giving it up that easy..
Highlight of the season.

Joe Westerman on Twitter tonight doing more fishing than Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer.

Good lad is the Yorkshire rimmer

Hope Joe Burgess picks up a ban for his disgusting challenge on Nsemba but get the feeling it will be swept under the carpet.

Will be very telling the way it is dealt with?

I think the battle for the top 6 has been one of the best in recent years .I hope we get the same again next season.

Ryan Hall summed it all up when he said Rovers fell in love with themselves at half time against Wire. Open training during grand final week showed they’d not listened to him at all. Their best player tonight by some margin.

Coach of the year and man of steel awards shown for what they are.

Agree, it has been but the winner was all to predictable. We are not going to be in the top 6 but I hope we can get somewhere near it. I'll be satisfied with that but that's a big challenge.

We will be in top 6 next year
Apart from top 3 this season the rest are more than catchable
Still question kr to maintain that level , I really think they’re going to be under a lot of pressure next year.

Just seen that

I'd have him back tomorrow just for that

How Lewis and Burgess didn't see a card during the game is baffling, a blatant tip tackle and a forearm direct to the head have been yellow and red all season but the officials choose not to see it when it's the GF. We've had players carded for far less this season.

The whole game was refereed differently. I think there was only 1, possibly 2 set restarts all game. Not a single penalty for offside (defensive line) given all game. Maybe only 1 or 2 penalty's for holding down all game.
It makes for better viewing as the game flows more, but pretty much every rule just seemed to go out the window last night