Best SH in the comp by a distance.

No mention of Orford being a O.A.P. i see.

Think you'll find Reardon played last night.



Both packs were pretty evenly matched, but Rovers were boshed at half back.

he got carried off didn't he, looked pretty bad.

Is anybody able to allay my fears?

I haven't made it to any of the games and thanks to a monumental over sight I'll be in London next week, but from what I've heard on the radio and read we seem to be going in a bit under cooked.

Losing to a Bradford team that haven't really played together is not a good sign.

We also seem to be giving away a huge amount of penalties, one of the best aspects of our game over the last three seasons has been reasonably good discipline, we need to get this back.

Hopefully I'm interpreting things incorrectly?

I know he was playing but not the full game? I meant when (or if) he's available for a full game. You'd have to be pleased to match Bradford's pack though in poor conditions.

Got injured in the second half.

Rovers pack was solid enough and i'd be reasonable happy with the way they played, particularly when you consider they were without Ben Galea for 78 minutes

I've only seen/heard the same as you, so I don't know. I don't think it'll be possible to make a meaningful initial assessment as to how the team looks on grass, as opposed to paper, until the end of Feb.

Maybe we peaked too early last year? Fine balance, because if you leave it too late confidence can go and even when it returns you can end up as the form team outside the play-offs.

Rovers do seem to be giving away a lot of penalties - has this been adapting to new interpretations, indiscipline or random reffing flux?
Are we playing fast or slow ruck rules this year?

Not sure, one of the Hull based contingent of the pmh gang that went last night said that Silverwood never got control of the ruck and hence loads of penalties for lying on and interference were given.

For me, one of our major weaknesses is not adapting during games, if you're conceding loads of penalties for trying to slow the ptb down, then whether that was in the game plan for this game or not you have to stop. Otherwise you'll get penalised for the entire game and in all likelihood someone will end up in the bin.

Edit; Christ, that green's bright, sorry about that, I'll go back to red in future!

I'll have a go, i

Is was only a friendly and to be honest I thought we looked ok in patches last night. If you look at where we were at this point last year we struggled to beat a very poor Salford side in a pre season friendly andthen went on to have an exceptional year.

The discipline thing is a worry, Silverwood didn't help much but we do give the refs the opportunities to penalise us by silly lay ons and moments of rashness, maybe early season rustiness but it is an area we need to sort because pens tend to lead to tries...

We do look a bit light up front, Vella put a stint in although he did look like a player who hasn't played for a while (and he looked like he'd slimmed down a bit) Lovegrove and Watts did well and Wheeldon was pretty solid although he does need to cut out the laying on which he's prone to do.
We definitely need another big prop in though and the sooner the better, whether thats Clinton or someone else I don't know.

The other thing to note was we invited a lot of pressure last nightthat I don't think we would normally do, The dobson short drop out that led to the last try was osmething I doubt we would ever do in a real match.

One other thing, why do we still let Dobbo kick for touch when Cookie has about 20m better range, whether it was a used for a reason in the 2nd last night or not I'm not sure but 1st half when cookie was doing them we had much better field position.

Someone on your 'secret' forum has suggested that the laying on and constantly being penalised was actually in Morgans game plan for all your friendlies. This is in order to see how far you can push each individual ref and then use it to your advantage during the season proper.

If anyone's interested it looks like Kopzcak's leg isnt broken, undergoing further tests today.

Glad to hear it.

Good; I hate to see anyone involved in the world's greatest sport with a serious injury.

Good to hear. Who was the player taken off after Briscoe's try saving tackle and is he ok?

Reardon, just a dead leg, so should be back for our opener next friday.

I hope Kopzcak hasn't suffered ligament damage though, as apparently that can be far worse than a break. Hope its something minor as he looked all set for a big season

I also hope he hasn't so fingers crossed for the lad, a break is sometimes less complicated, particularly with ankles.

I was following the score thread on your board last night and felt gutted for him, it really must be the worst game of the season to get injured in.

unlike you sweet cheeks i dont sit on my fat and hairy all day behind a computer and yes maybe my england is'nt great but that wont stop me supporting MY team.if you want to score cheap points off me that way so be it i just hope your life improves very soon

Why would I want you to stop supporting Rovers?

And my life is just tickety-boo, thanks. Not like my team are 0 from their last 8 games, is it? More good news from the KC today as well with FC breaking 9,000 passes. Good times

To be fair we're not comparing like for like given that our first two losses were in play-off games.

Although 3 were against non SL competition.

It must be really painful for you having to laugh at us losing friendlies

Why would it be painful? After the last 2 seasons it makes a nice change from laughing at ourselves.

mrs B just so i know it is HULL FC you support? i only ask because you do alot of posting on here ( THE HULL KINGSTON ROVERS FORUM) and before you say your also a rugby lge fan i wonder how many post you have on other teams forum??????

Oh stop it. How many other teams does your chairman stick the boot in about in his programme notes? Hull and Rovers - it's a "special relationship"