I've thought for a while that our middle players have been playing very well and I think we have one of the most underrated packs in the league.

We bullied Hull on Good Friday and we bullied Saints today - even though Paea wasn't quite himself (looked tired) and Tuimavave had to go off injured. Nathan Brown said post match that Saints failed to put Rovers players down 40 times at the play-the-ball which goes to show the physical strength of the players.

Like Sandra said Walker was the pick of the forwards and he really is starting to find some great form - the kid is still only 20 years old as well. He starting to look like a great signing.

I'm also please Beaumont at long last is starting to prove he can cut it at this level and that Cox is finally starting to settle in to the right second-row slot where his 6ft 6" frame can do a lot of damage on the edge.

Our best back was Alex Brown, the lad continues to improve every week and looks like another good signing.

With Tuimavave missing for 4 to 6 weeks with a calf problem we may see James Green make his first appearance of the season next week; another massive homegrown forward at 6ft 7".

Maybe we should have asked the rfl to postpone the game until they had a full strength squad to choose from then

And weren't they just wetting themselves about it!

I still think this 'rubbish' Saints team will finish above both Hull & Rovers this season. Saints will finish the season strong like they usually do although of course they are not a patch on the team of the Tommy Martyn Sean Long days.

Today though Rovers should have won far more comfortably, Saints barely threatened in the 2nd half other than them picking up a loose ball and racing away unopposed.

Why would you do that? Take every advantage you can against the big clubs. You were similarly fortunate with injuries for wire and Hull when you played them

Luckily rovers have been at full strength for every match this season.

Are you convinced by Walker now then Sandra

Is that Rovers fault though. We can only play the side in front of us and today I felt we performed okay. Defensively we still had our lapses but I felt the forwards where hungry and made some cracking yards. Beaumont is really stepping up now he's putting a run of games together. Looked very fresh in that second half and was very mobile for a big guy.

Yup only Burns, Withers, Salter, Gleeson & O'Hara missing today.

Please tell me you are still not playing the 'we had no half backs' card. LOL!!!

I'm still struggling to understand why Thaler didn't go 'disco inferno' with the shear amount of penaties Saints gave away.

According to their board they were given a team warning but I didn't see it???

No clear signal of one. People where shouting to Thaler asking where was the team warning.

Were we really that ill-disciplined? I'm sure the answer to that question is yes, but I can't remember the last time we conceded so many penalties in such a short period of time. Penalty count was 12-7 and I bet most of them came in the second half!

Very frustrating.

Well played, you did well and always have done against us. Never seen us win at your place!

I think Welham enjoyed brownys try more than browny himself!!

Craig Hall was a mile offside after the kick before Brown's try...not that I'm bitter or anything...

LOL? Are you 13?

I'm playing the no halfbacks, no kicking game, no direction, no idea, no best prop, no England 2nd rower, no highest derby scoring centre card. wigan showed how good you were over easter

Don't they do ur head in cos they're really starting to grate on mine

Not really.
What they don't realise is that they could well be in a similar position
Within the next 2 seasons but they are just too deluded to realise it.

and that was just Catalan yesterday

Both teams need a sesnse of reality here.

For all CS's moaning, Hull KR are the only club to have been based in the same town for both Easter fixtures, no travelling whatsoever, thats a huge bonus. They then finish the tri-series off with a home fixture versus Saints who are missing Lomax, Gardner, Roby, Perry, Puletua, Manu, Wheeler, Walker and Flanagan. I'd say HKR got the luck of the draw and good luck to them, but the facts are there for all to see.

Hull got luck with the 3rd game too, with Catalans having to travel again.

Catalans are away again this Friday!!! If Sandydick was in charge there, he'd have a heart attack.

In all honesty I don’t think many on here have much sympathy with CS’S whinge about Easter. It’s a heavy schedule whomever you play, some squads are more able to adapt to the schedule and also to whatever injuries they may get throughout the season.
Yes we got lucky with a heavily depleted saints team but equally Wigan faced a heavily depleted HKR, the fact is that CS decided to throw the game, what he never anticipated was the manner we went down and the subsequent backlash. In reality his tactic worked very well, he beat Cas with Dobbo, theoretically rested him for the derby hedging his bets that Burns and Hall would have enough to beat Hull. Rested the team for Wigan and then put the focus on Saints. If we’d gone down say 50 – 24 to Wigan it would have been a very successful Easter. Unfortunately the middle defeat has tainted the whole period.

Looking at the current state of most of the teams in the league, we would have been unlucky to meet a team without an injury list at least 5 names long including a half back or two.

2nd time we’ve played a team who had a half back available who the coach decided to play out of position tho’.

You make a semi-adult comment and then ruin any credibility by doing that typical FC fan thing and make up a 7 year old's insult for the coach. Well done, now get dressed and go to school.

Your bang on Barham Red, majority of teams are suffering with many players on the injury list, more so than normal I think.

Catalans had Webb, Dureau, Blanch, Bosc, Millard, Bouseque(sp, big young prop) plus Elima, huge players missing for them

I wish someone would grate your head