I watched that again only last weekend, and he was indeed, despite the best efforts of Bill Arthur who repeatedly tossed him an excuse only for Sinfield to rebuke it.

Cant see Leeds thinking of either Hull side as a rival TBH, Leeds/Bradford they would say; then i reckon Saints/Wigan come before either Hull side for them,

East Vs West is our derby end of, Just like wigan/saints, leeds/bradford, cas/wakey.

See, I think that sometimes. But, having moved to Leeds, and playing alongside Leeds fans and working with Leeds supporting teenagers in a school, there is a huge dislike for Hull FC there. They may pretend we don't matter much to them (because let's face it, they beat us most of the time), but if we were as successful as Wigan and Saints have been, they'd see us as a bigger rival most likely. Leeds/Saints rivalry is only fuelled by success, and when that goes so will the rivalry (you could say the same about Leeds/Bradford I suppose, that one has died down now Bradford are crap).

Interesting about Huddersfield. Not many consider them a rival. They're one of them teams that not many are that fussed about ("just another team" kinda thing).

You're right, Leeds do seem to have a strange thing about Hull, and it seems to be a bit vice versa. Over hang from the Schofield Crooks factor? I don't know.

I think with us and Huddersfield it's probably partly jealousy on our part in that they came from way further from behind the eight ball than us to become a moderately successful side. We were both in similar positions (although, as I've said I think their's was far, far worse than ours) a lot of that is to do with the fact that imo Kirklees is a progressive council and the Uncle Ken factor and that I think a lot of Rovers fans feel that if we'd had the breaks that they've had (and don't get me wrong, I don't decry them any) we'd have done better in terms of fans and revenue than they have.

I'm not sure I've expressed that all that well, I'll happily expand for fans of either team.

The team I used to hate and always wanted us to beat was Whitehaven.............simply because we never could beat them.............well away anyway.
Infact the year we went up I knew it was our year because if I remember right we went to Whitehaven and won.

No we didn't, we lost away at Whitehaven and Leigh (we put out weakened sides as it was the back end of the season)

I remember losing to Leigh as I belive that was the first time Kris welham scored a first team try or was it his first team hat trick.
But I could have sworn we beat Whitehaven at their place.

We got mullered 48-12

Wow how did I forget that.
I did have a wedding to arrange and and a honeymoon to the states to look forward to so.
But am I right about Welhams scoring in the Leigh game.

Yes, he scored after 3 minutes.

Thank god for that

Doncaster. Back in the day when they had $hithouses like Alex Fisher, "Singe the whinge", Holroyd et al playing for them

God yeah particularly the infamous game at CP in 2004 when Holdstock broke that guy's jaw.



Think that was the game when Donny players appeared to be encouraging Rovers fans onto the pitch after the game to brawl.

The maddest thing I've ever seen at an RL ground that. Ellis flicked the v's in my general direction, was going to court about it. Then he snuffed it, which was a shame, great player in his day.

Phew, wasn't sure if I was imagining the last bit because it seemed so wild/outrageous.

Remember Donny claiming that their players had just come across to the East Stand because that was when away fans used to use it too, but there was definitely argueing, gesturing etc going on between their players and our fans then.

"Look at that man Muff! Look at that man Handforth! They're just a team of bloody head hunters!"

You don't get commentary like that anymore!

warrington

that's probably a good thing though to be fair mate.

I would rather not thanks.

No-one, there is only FC for me. I am disappointed if we lose to Leeds, cas, Wire, Bulls etc, etc, but I am mortified to lose to FC, it hurts badly. By the same token, if we beat the others I am happy, when we beat FC I am f'ckin extatic and smile for a week.

I think that as everyone is saying different teams it proves that there isnt a set rival apart from FC at all, just different opinions and self basis dislikes.

I consider foxes to be my biggest rivals.

I didn't realise you were in the biscuit industry!

Yeah, I do a mean Ginger Crunch Creme, and I know loads of people who love nibbling on my Garibaldi's.