The Final. Wasn't it Lloyd who was judged to have obstructed?

Wembley 1980?
If so, I don't recall it. I was only 12 at the time and only saw the game at Wembley.

Not many video recorders around in those days and have never seen a replay of the match since, only the two tries on old BBC footage. I know Rovers fans used to mention the victory up to last August, but they don't seem to talk much about Wembley these days for some reason.



Can't recall it being a major controversial moment in Derby history, unlike Green's Magic try and Dobson's Dan Marino 50 yard forward pass touchdown the previous year.

Indeed it was . As I remember it - Lloyd sent Bray over in the corner, Casey came in late on Lloyd (surprise, surprise!)
after he had passed the ball. Lindop penalised Lloyd for obstruction!

Whoops! Maybe talking about the wrong final.
Against Fev it was Charlie Stone who was penalised, late on.

No you're right re 1980. Ridiculous decision by Lindop but 83 was even worse. Stone had a bad cut on his head, Fev player, think it was' bugger he was on the tip of my tongue

came up from the fair tackle covered in Stones blood, Ref reacted badly. Happened right in front of me.

PM'd you.

Kr going into magic weekend on the back of a win, confidence must be high at the small kc, hope we take them to the cleaners, keeping us high up the league.

Remembered it was David Hobbs, double try scorer and goal kicker, Lance Todd trophy winner. Recovered from the so called head but to kick the winning goal.

Not much confidence to be taken from that performance, we were dog turd, Widnes sucked more that's all. Our only hope will be the "suspect package" routine

Thought Kelly and Blair put in good performances. Couple of good offloads from Tilse as well!

2 points never the less pal, Widnes was flying early on in the season, it's been a crazy half season this far.

Steve Quinn was Fevs kicker that day.

Let's not get the story wrong here. stone's head goes into the Fev players face. It was a penalty. We lost, and deserved to.

Dixon?

Did disco Dixon play yesterday? Kr have ruined more wingers then Lesley Vanikolo!

What's happened with him?

On Good Friday 2015, he looked a constant threat. Now he's become Rovers Chief Turnstile Operator and out of favour?

He may never have been the greatest defender, but has his nightmare at Wembley last year completely ruined his confidence as a player?

Got injured playing for Newcastle over the weekend.

Can't see anything but a convincing fc win in this.

rovers have everything to gain and nothing to lose in this one. No one gives them a chance so it's a free hit for them. I expect campese could be back and they can't be far off full strength now so anything other than a top class performance will likely see us lose.

Play to our potential, do what we do well and we'll win comfortably. It's all about attitude

Thanks for the correction on Steve Quinn but as I stated earlier, it happened about ten yards directly in front of me and I know what I saw. Sorry to disagree.

So all bar Michaels fit. Some tough choices selectionwise for Radders this week. Does Carlos come straight back in and Fonua to the wing or is it a straight swap for Naughton? The Tank has to play but who drops out?

I'd go:

Shaul
Fonua
Carlos
Yeamo
Bin Man
Pryce
Sneeeeeeyd
Scotty T
Houghton
Watts
Mini
Washy
Ellis

Tank
Manu
Thompson
Bowden

I'd leave him out, St's a much bigger task the week after?

Only Thornley and maybe clarkson to come back in defiantly no Campese

They're always difficult games to predict vs Rovers.

On form and on paper we should win, but this fixture is different from the others with the hype, history and rivalry that goes with it. Some players raise their game, some go into their shell a bit.

As Jake says, if we turn up with the attitude we've had the last few weeks, we'll win.

If we have a high completion rate and remain patient we should win this comfortably.

Its up to the senior players to keep a lid on things and not let some of the younger players get wound up by the opposition.

If we play like we have we win. If we go away from.what we have been doing we might struggle as make no mistake this is rover's grand final.

It always is against us. A typical small-club mentality, obsessed with looking upwards at their neighbours and getting the 'little' wins.

Unfortunately for them, this attitude of 'as long as we beat Hull' runs through their clubs core - from Neil Hudgell to the majority of their fans. They'll of course say this is boll@cks, and for some fans it won't apply, but we all know it's true for most of em.

The West Brom of Rugby League. They're there, but as far as the playing side of things go, they're irrelevant, nobody other than them cares.