I might be delirious but after yesterday's game I wish we had radford in charge. The team would still be locked in the changing room now.
I can't think that Chester has the balls to drop or call a player out.

If you could see any technical improvement at the ruck I would be more confident but there was zero evidence of it yesterday. Quick play the balls sucked players into the middle leaving the fringe a mess. Our coaches have not fixed this in a year.....
We look weaker than in the super 8s with no Chisolm(sorry Sandra he pulled off some great plays to change games last year). In fact we were a shambles in beating semi pro teams on occasion.
I really fear for us and did before yesterday.
Our best hope is Campese but reading between the lines he's a month off at best. By then he'll have missed Cas Wakefield etc. We're hoping others suffer injuries and fall outs to save us. Only Widnes haven't made obvious improvements.

Shouldnt worry too much about Chester can see Peacock in charge after six games

tbf its only a friendly, imo still think you will do ok this season

whats up with lunt? not the dodgy calf again is it

Thanks for the unwarranted vote of confidence in us. There's me thinking Blind Faith was a 60s supergroup!

For my part, I think you will need to justify your rationale to be taken seriously.

We know it's only a friendly, but we played some really crap rugby after the semi final CC win last season, including the whole of the middle 8s. There was nothing in our performance yesterday to suggest we had moved on or learned anything from that time. We look stuck in a consistently inconsistent groove and seem content to turn up with a defensively generous mindset. Fine when you are playing lower standard opposition, but way short of the SL top 4, which is supposed to be our aspiration.

A better showing against your lot next week will do little to allay my fears, unless we learn to defend week in week out.

Someone quoted Chester as he needs his ankle clearing out. That's a month minimum but Chester usually gives a day rehab for a fractured skull......get back out there Daryll....Oh don't worry about vomiting...play through it...

I can't see exactly what our coaches have been working on. There is no defensive structure that I can see. So; is the players who are not following the laid down defensive structures or is it the coaches who haven't done the business on the defensive side of things. It's alarming the number of times our players are simply out of position or just wave their opposite number goodbye. I know it was just a friendly but for goodness sake you expect the players to want to do well; to show some passion; will to win; to remember the game plan [if there was one and put in a shift. Defeat whilst not pleasant is more palatable if the players have at least tried. It's going to be a long hard season.

That's the third time at least that ankle has been a problem for him. A bit worrying it's causing problems now, after several weeks off. Could it be why he doesn't run from DH much anymore.

TBH I think although you might of been saying that jokingly I can see that coming, in fact I think he will deffo put his boots on again before the end of the season for you and im not joking either

Think it could be the Testimonial aspect - we did the same against Featherstone for Whitings game.

Can see it being quite a competitive hit out on Sunday

Can he play hooker or half back........we're fu#ked. I expect Cas to royally bum us opening day.
If they do then we should have a new player/coach.

I can't believe I'm typing all this but .. ......Chester has us playing particularly n defence like an amateur team.
Relying on Lunt and Campo's fitness without adequate cover and no back row is a catastrophe waiting to happen. I'm afraid we're about to witness one.
I hope I spend the next month being ridiculed on here but...

Looking at today's Hull Daily Mail, Chester knows any failure this season and he'll be out.
The three players out for the first month is desperate tho. Right on the eve of the new season. Bad luck just never leaves our club when injuries arise.
I'll leave my summary about our team after the Derby, but with who we have out and shipping neatly 40 points again, I'm fearing the worst.
I'm with you Burton. No wins in the first month and I want the club to act immediately.

Really really really really really dreading this season,press has us favorite's to finish bottom .......bang on,I remember the optimism 10 year ago on our promotion .how contrasting ,fed up

FFS it was a friendly. Perhaps we should have played a team from 2 divisions below us and stuck 60 on them. Expectations will have gone through the roof.

You may be called roversmad as a user name but hopefully not mad,rovers will finish bottom FACT rovers will get beat by 20 to 30 pts by fc on Sunday FACT cas will smash us on opening day FACT GOOD NIGHT

Friendly or not no team should ever come to KCLS and be 38 points to nil up that just shows the pride our players have in the shirt

Have you got Saturdays lottery numbers

Going to bed before 8pm and writing FACT after each sentence merely confirms your age.

That has nothing to do with it.

I don't doubt the players commitment or effort.

It's that we are a shambles defensively and no direction without Campo in attack.

The players lack confidence not effort.

Good to know you pay some interest in rugby Rafa.

Here's a prediction based on wishful thinking.

In his new role as mentor and new club culture creator, JP's first major success is to convince our players that fast starts and defensive intensity could become a winning formula, based on his personal playing experience in a successful team.

PS - By week 1 of SL 7th Feb would be good JP, so no pressure then.

We're incapable of scoring 40 points in one game so I wouldn't worry

Radford in. 12 months on and he is a God, judging by the lack of negativity in general on your forum.

Is there ever going to be a moment that the massive gormclops's on this board remember that Jamie Peacock has said about a thousand times that he's not interested in coaching?

For absolute FFS, one meaningless game in and this is where we are?

Jim Henson is laughing his poor rotting corpse off at you people.