The obstruction rule is complete rubbish given that RL is supposed to be a collision sport. The only saving grace is that it’s consistently applied (but only when the sky cameras are there).

With regards the first try of the game, at half time it was shown that the rovers players elbow clearly makes contact with the ball and hence it as play on.

Rovers biggest issue today was their last tackle play. The kicking was woeful. You had the possession and territory but were not good enough to use it.

Hull took their chances. With 13 men on the field, Hull win by 24+

Average poop, like the majority of SL, enjoy your cup final win, your lot certainly don’t sing and cheer like they did today if they beat any other team. But don’t forget to tell me it’s our cup final in the way out.

It was 7 months ago but yeah I am still enjoying it.

Enjoyed both of them,thanks all the same.

Hull may well be in decline, one of the reasons is Hull normally sign up any decent Rovers players, but this season....

I loved our Cup final wins!

2016



2017





OK. It's your Cup final.

IF Hull are average, just how bad, in your opinion are rovers then?

Cup finals.... great days out. I have seen Hull in six cup finals in the SL era, seen the, win three of these. Remind us how many cup finals rovers have bee next in, or more accurately how many points they have scored in those.? Sorry, pointless question, literally.

I'm finding it a bit embarrassing and cringy fans slagging Hull off when they've just beaten us with 12 men we have to except there way ahead of us at this time a bit like when we came up the first time but things change it will take a couple of seasons to get back on par with them yesterday's defeat was harder to take than the 20pt lead we blew because with a bit of composure and game management we should have won comfortably but in the end we looked like the team with 12 men

We are crap right now, end of. If that’s enough to give F.C. fans that arrogance that they’re the best team on the planet again having beat us, then good for them.

Calm down, you're not that good.

Yesterday was a total embarrassment for Rovers losing against 12 men and to be honest not the best Fc performance either which makes it worse. The truth is despite all the promises from Hudgell you have probably one of if not the poorest squad in SL. The so-called best coach in the world who would have players from Australia and home fighting too join the club has been a joke. The wizard (sheens) would have Rovers playing fantastic rugby and become a real force in Sl , Rovers were a shambles in defence against 12 men so who is to blame Players or Coach, cannot see anyone on this forum knock Sheens but if any other coach they would , he lives on his past .
The biggest laugh is there are still some who think Rovers can get top four??? now that is being deluded

tbf that try of rovers should have been given, if where gonna disallow trys like that well where stuffed, as someone earlier said defending teams are milking it, imo what you missed yest was a general in the team, you have one but unfort for you he was sat in the stands, is he gonna be like long was for us in missing games, not his best game yest but have liked what I see in atkins

Sheens and most of this squad got us out of the Championship, so there’s a still plenty of residual goodwill, I imagine. The roots of our problems go back further, but, while lessons from that time need to be learned, there’s little to be point apportioning blame now - it’s been done to death already and those responsible have acknowledged their mistakes. And in the case of the board, it’s largely because them of that expectations have been raised to a level where we regard our current situation as difficult.

While results haven’t been good, and our performance patchy, it feels like everyone at the club at least understands our situation now. Whether there’s much that can be done about it is another matter. What would be embarrassing is if we lost our poop over it. Plenty of sports fans have endured much worse, including plenty of Rovers fans.



Certainly somebody is suffering from delusions here.

Im not prepared to blame refs or VR despite some very dodgy calls both ways.
We fell into Hulls trap of dragging us down the middle, what we did well in the first half we didnt do in the 2nd, and how can a team thats a man down create overlaps far easier than a team with an extra man?
Hull out thought us big time in my opinion.

Im also not a fan of the game being refferee'd by the video ref either, if the ref doesnt see it then IMO its missed, i dont like that the VR can stop the game i.e the Washbrook shoulder charge.

If we made top 8i would be happy but at the moment I would settle for 9 th

Very true. The game was to big for the ref and he didn't have the confidence to back himself hence the constant intervention of the VR. Radford intimated this afterwards.

On a separate note I've just been to Aldi and bought myself a couple of bottles of BF which I will enjoy while watching the game again. £1.25 - 5.4%.

Life is a bowl of cherries.

You'll be fine, whether that's in the middle 8s or not. You do need to keep Maguire and lunt on the field though. The obstruction try being chalked off was ridiculous and probably changed the game, but ill take it as repayment for an equally poor decision against us at Leeds. Overall I thought the difference was experience, we've played with 12 men on 5 occasions for periods over the last 12 months. We were just more patient. You have the talent, you just need time.

Just a sad Mrs B wannabe. Then you were always a little creepy with the lady posters.

Still single?

Yours against Leeds? Where’s our payback for the one we had against Leeds?

That came in the form of a ridiculous decision, that left you with 72 minutes to play against 12 men.
A gift that you failed, miserably, to unwrap.

MOD MODE.

While I have limited sympathy for WUMs who succeed in winding folk up and attract flak, as a general point to several posters, I’d be grateful if you could limit or tone down the personal insults. Ateotd, I assume it is what they want, so apart from the AUP, why give them the satisfaction? (Rhetorical question). Ta.

The way the decision was reached was a bit odd, and you can make a case for it being an ‘orange’, possibly. A tad harsh and others will get away with less for with similar, but it was hardly ridiculous.

Hull capitalised more often of the decisions that favoured them, and even with 12 were the better team.

it wasn't a ridiculous decision but maybe 10 minutes to cool down and think about it would have been right, it was very late and at the head ,a bit silly really as the ball had long gone but imo not particularly malicious so yellow card ,officials and video refs are erratic and continue to blight the game every week

It’d be nice to win a few more for confidence and general enjoyment.

But if don’t make 8th (and it looks like a stretch currently, as we might very well need to win something like 8 of our remaining 15 before the split), then the benefits of 9th vs 10th vs 11th vs 12th are pretty marginal. Assuming they don’t change the system. Obviously it’d be nice to avoid the spoon, and better still get 4 home games in the 8s. But I think after Widnes, we need to look at the table and think about how best to manage the situation.

The slight nagging doubt is if they do something odd to the structure of this part of the season to re-jig the leagues for next year. However, even if they’re changes, they’re much more likely to use the 8s to do it. MPG between 2nd and 3rd for 10 teams or between 6th and 7th for 14.

Depending how the fixtures fall the difference between 9/10th and 11/12th could be pretty big. With Toronto, Tolouse and Catalans in the middle 8s I wouldn't be fancying 4 away games as there's a good chance 2 of them could be abroad.
But you're definitely a better team than Catalans and as the season plans out I reckon you'll prove better than Widnes. Huddersfield are a bit unknown quantity now due to their coach change. But you've got enough to secure 4 home games ahead of Cats and Widnes.