But clearly they eat away at you for months



Tonight was closure on Rovers best season for the best part of 25 years.
A double over Saints, continued domininance over Hull FC.
4th in the league ladder, 4 Dream Team players.
Attendances standing firm in the face of a recession coupled with an away following thats the best and most vocal in the British game.
Players committing themselves to extended contracts along with the best young coach in the game also extending his stay.
The emergance of Kris Welham who played in every single league and cup game.
Roots of strong Academy and Reserve sides growing firmer.
Its a work in progress that has improved year on year for the last 5 seasons.

Compare that to your club and it puts things into perspective so enjoy your night.

No offence but with all that back slapping there is no wonder Rovers fans get so much stick on RLFans.

You talk rubbish GML, how do we compare your list above with the winning of the 9's and the fairplay league, which as we all know is the true mark of a top team, Leeds must be spitting feathers at missing out on these two top prizes

Oh the old ' I cannot argue with that so i best do some smiley faces ' reply.
Poor.

So basically your admitting to yourself there, that Rovers have had there best season for 25 years and it ends with a season were you have lost every big game this season. Wire in the cup, Leeds and Wigan in the play offs ? Your calling this all a success ? Are you for real ?

Compare this to a club who have reached a major final in the last two seasons and still claim that there seasons was failure. Now that puts things into perspective, you guys are flash in the pans and we are the bigger club.

Losing your two play off games is the mark of a top team is it ?

I was there today, I think a lot of rovers fans talked a lot of sense as well. Sadly, I fear a lot of what you have said is true. I do believe that it is not all as rosey as you think though. Fozzard has gone cos you cannot afford him for example. However, you recruitment policy of up and coming players is to be admired. A lot of people will disagree, but then I don't really care.

A season that promised so much and delivered so little. Your away support is notoriously over exaggerated, you played saints when they were out of sorts twice, we've been crap all season. None of your academy has broke into the 1st team except Welham who is crap and will be replaced by Ratu and to top it all off you have 2 bites of the cherry and embarrass yourselves. Well done

As opposed to you laughing at us saying there was something to celebrate in making a major final (and getting £250k for it), yet you launch a list of "achievements" that ultimately yielded nothing in terms of either silverware or cash (Hudgell having said there was no money in the CC quarter final, nor the play-offs)

Well done on bringing one player through your homegrown system as you go into your 4th season. Surely Cas and Salford have more to celebrate in this respect in terms of first team players? Roots of a strong academy is a throwaway claim until it delivers consistently.

This is not about the relative performances this season of Hull and Rovers, that's not even a debate. It's about you all pouring scorn on a major final appearance for us last season, then being unable to take the hypocrisy of claiming "success" when ultimately you failed to make a semi, let alone a final.

Maybe they should be more like your lot and aim for mediocrity, and still fail. What's the aim for next year winning the mascot race.

The have E Bird on royds as we speak

That difference being that after winning the Cup in 05 and making the Grand Final in 06 Hull fans proclaimed you as now being a Top 4 side.
That on the back of being in the SL far longer then Rovers and being handed a decent squad of players after the Gateshead merger.
Rovers have continued progressing so yes its been a successful season.
Had we finished 11th or 12th and made the Cup Final then it simply would not have been although many supporters would love that.
Time will tell if we are a flash in the pan which i doubt very much and if your such a bigger club then your performances on the field need to back that up.

No this thread just simply highlights that such is the poor fair you are served up across the river your life revolves around coming on this forum and embarrassing yourself.

I believe in a forum where people try to be honest and interesting rather than provocative. An off-season of fair and open debate without petty points scoring and name-calling. I believe that together we can build a better future for RL discussion on the web. Brothers and sisters in RL, I believe.

Choosing to not answer the point that you said we couldn't claim anything to celebrate in reaching a major final, but you can do so when you failed to reach a semi final. OK.

Ah. But how much time do you have left? Tonight was not only the demise of all Justine's proclamations, it was also the end of Play-Off, Semi and Final game revenue and Prize money.

Tricky closed season ahead, methinks. Again.

Oh, stop it. Where's your sense of mischief? Don't you get fed up with being the only one on here that talks sense?

You are so mild you're yoghurt. Not from Hull,then?

I reckon at the time though we had good evidence to suggest that.




Would this be the same decent set of players who finished 7th that season ? Then after that the main success was built around the likes of Horne, Yeaman, King and Cooke all from Hull's Academy.


You've made the play offs, whilst its progress its nothing to get carried away with. You don't see Cas fans proclaiming World dominance because they made the play offs this season. The constant fact Rovers are referring to were they were a few years ago has all the ingrediants of a club who are just happy to be there rather then to compete.


That it will. We'll be back on top again don't worry about that.

I suggest you go back and recheck your info

Brilliant season. Our 3rd in SL and we finish top 4. Well proud of the lads. Disappointed about tonight, on another day we could've got the result. JM was right - aim as high as you can and keep progressing.

I'm glad the hull fans are having such a good night, shows exactly how far we've come.

Gavin Miller - Legend wrote: That on the back of being in the SL far longer then Rovers and being handed a decent squad of players after the Gateshead merger.

Could never understand that argument GML.

Just because you clearly werent good enought to be in Super League for all those years suddenly gives you an excuse for not getting to major finals etc over the last couple of years!

Who's fault is it that you could not reach Super League til 2007? Dont think its ours.

To true but!
within those two seasons we were in a challenge cup "FINAL"

rovers was almost 3 decades ago! FACT

WINNERS OF FAIRPLAY
rovers 3rd
WINNERS OF FLOODLIGHT NINES
rovers knocked out in semi final by HULL F.C.