I am on holiday & will miss the game anyone know if KR TV is covering the game please.

Too few first teamers today. I hope Chester bloods the whole first team for the next two friendlies. Knowing how undercooked we were last year.

Sounds like we made the same mistake Hull did against Featherstone last year. Too many inexperienced players against decent Championship opposition. Which wouldn't matter if it was just to give the young lads experience, but I do think for a testimonial match its a little bit of a shame.
If it's just an unwanted additional game for the coach then a Legends game or some other sort of novelty element would seem a sensible alternative to me. If Chester wanted a chance to test the kids, then have both, maybe as a double header.

Does anybody give a shizzle about these games?

Other than it being Netherton's testimonial I can't see a reason to attend.

Can anyone who attended give any insight to the new boys and how they played? Marsh seemed to have had a decent game before he limped off. Also interested to find out how last seasons lads went aswell, Welham after he's being "training the house down" and salter?

Welham played well actually the others to look good IMO were Dixon and Larroyer sadly none of the young lads shone except Marsh and we had no direction when he went off. Salter seemed a bit off the pace even in defence. Wasn't easy for anyone to look particularly good as we looked so disorganised and under done but then that was to be expected.

ive heard Keal Carlile was top notch though

Lol neither of them offered anything out of dummy half that u didn't see coming tho not entirely there fault as the ruck area was painfully slow.

Played at scrum half thought he was ineffective although Fax to their credit snuffed him out with constant pressure whenever he had the ball - he was on the receiving end of a few big hits from Ambler and their stocky centre Taylor. He did have opportunities to run the ball from dummy half but it doesn't seem to be in his DNA. Boudebza tried but Kaye dominated that area of play (and was my MoTM).

As someone has already remarked, Fax were very tight whereas Rovers were disorganised and lacked any real penetration. What disappointed me most was not seeing the defensive resolve Chester is suppose to be accountable for, but this was more apparent when Horne went off injured, who had his usual good show.

I agree with the comments about Kris Welham, he looks as though he has shrugged off last seasons doldrums but could have shielded his wingman more, something's never change.

The player I was most disappointed with was Josh Guzdek; I know he is coming back from injury but he did himself no favours yesterday.

The opposite cannot be said about Matty Marsh, who after a slow start began to dominate and probe before his injury; he took a couple of 'unfriendly' follow through's but Fax came over to play, even Jason Netherton got the treatment, and that was a striking difference to me and reflected in the final score.

The consensus from those I spoke to after the match was how Rovers coaching staff had underestimated Fax, that's one theory, but you have to trial the youngsters and it did seem the right time to do so. At least Chester and Poching have more insight on the progress of the u19s, for sure they will be very happy with Matty Marsh.

I see yesterday as a real missed opportunity, we have virtually a new team to gel together and a very limited time to do so. Our next 2 matches are against SL opposition and will be pretty rugged affairs so why wouldn’t Chester give his 1st team a run out yesterday.
Realistically what did we gain from that, I struggle to see a positive, Carlisle at 7? Will that ever happen, Playing our 2nd string everywhere else will give us an insight into how they play but unless they are in a team with other 1st teamers it doesn’t give a representative view.
For me we’d have been better playing our 1st team against a championship 1 team just to blow off the cobwebs and get some combinations going.

Maybe Chester does not want other super league teams to see how bad or how good the first team players are

Only positives i could see from the game was boudabza looked lively. I thought Greg Burke looked a useful player and matty marsh looked ok. Dixon looked Sharp and has some real pace about him.I thought the rest were average at most and got dominated by a team that came to take the game serious

Pretty much sums it up. For want of a better word Fax just looked hungrier than the Robins. For KR's youngsters it should have been a chance to say come and get me but Im struggling to think of any of them that got the better of their opposite number although I wouldnt mind Welham if any of our centres did get injured. A good indication of how eager Fax were was charging down about 3 kicks and the KR kickers not having chance to breathe when they got the ball. It were a chance to blow some cobwebs off but I think Chester will have been wanting to see a lot more than that from some of his players.

I attended the game yesterday, as I am sure many others did to see at least afew minutes game time from some of our new big name guys.Sadly I was dissapointed, what did we gain from yesterday? surely this ws the time to experiment with the movesand plays for the coming season, this is after all virtually a new team.
Halifax were aggressive in defense and attack, we were slow thinking short of aggression and ideas.

It was common knowledge that none of the overseas lads (new & existing) would be playing yesterday, so in that respect, I wasn't dissapointed.

Any guesses on attendance?

To be honest this seemed like a game Chester didn't want and the team that was chosen seemed to confirm that there was a couple of 17year olds playing majority of the 19s and a couple of fringe players I don't think we took Halifax lightly I just think it was an expected result what I saw was that Dixon is very fast Burke played well and was pleasantly surprised with the French hooker

Jason said almost 3,000 and was over the moon with the turnout.

With regards to Dixon he is a lot smaller than I remembered. No question he is very quick but light weight.
seem to recall brown brushing him off we ease at one point. Will be interesting how he goes next week.

He's not smaller, but Brown appears to have gained 2 stone since last time these 2 met.

Brown showed his strength (literally) and highlighted that weakness in Dixon's game in the March 2013 game at the Stoop, so that shouldn't be a big surprise. Dixon isn't a powerful player, but hopefully makes up for that in other ways.

Thinking back to the game and our dual reg with Halifax, it would be interesting to think how many of our 'second string' players that played on Sunday would actually get into that Halifax team. not many I would wager.

Id take Welham, no one else stood out imo.

what about young Matty Marsh who the local press reckon was running the show until his injury?

If he starts playing like last year please take him but if he gets back to how he was no chance