Injuries????

plenty

You are obviously delighted at that well done

Galea has done medial ligament

Beaumont has broken leg

Josh rolled an ankle

Suspected broken leg for Beamont(sp), Galea out for around a month with medial ligament injury, Josh strained ankle. Obviously nothing conformed though, Sandercock mentioned all this in interveiw.

More bad news surrounding injuries to key players at the club.

Bad but part of the game im afraid,other players misfourtunes are somes chance to step up !

Get well soon to all the rovers lads with injuries.

Thats bad news,its bad enough any time,but in a friendly is somehow more galling.
Hope they recover soon.

Regardless of who was injured, this friendly was an important part of our preparations. With it being a derby the intensity is increased.

Injuries to key or fringe players can happen in any game, and these may equally happen in the first 10 mins of our first Super League game. Those are the negatives, but the positives in the confidence and fitness levels far outweigh these in my opinion.

Only will we see on 3 February!

Feel for Beaumont - he had to recover from a career threatening back injury previously.

The others sound no worse than the sort of thing that happen week in week out in RL - scant consolation for those players, I guess. At least there's a couple of clear weeks to season's start now.

I reckon galea will be back in 3 weeks or so thought we showed great spirit we've got o'hara to come back most impressive newcomer deffo number 1 Shannon. I think if we had had green on the pitch we wud have seen evenmore exciting rugby,really happy with today's performance.

I reckon galea will be back in 3 weeks or so thought we showed great spirit we've got o'hara to come back most impressive newcomer deffo number 1 Shannon. I think if we had had green on the pitch we wud have seen evenmore exciting rugby,really happy with today's performance.

Tbf, these are injuries that can be covered.
As bad as it sounds, Rovers are lucky that the most serious injury came to Beaumont who was unlikely to figure much. Galea if he is out for a month could only miss two games and with Carlile and Withers to cover the hooking role we can probably live without Hodgson for a couple of weeks.
Unlucky to get these injuries but today's positives outweigh the negatives.

A good run out, friendlies are a nessecary evil, but as someone has said, you could get these injuries in the first SL game, nice to win, but the combinations and fitness are more important I guess

We could have picked up those injuries against anyone, so we might as well play a derby. 50% (after SMC expenses) of a 14,000 gate means Hudge probably pocketed 50-70K for the club. Considering there were about 3,000 of us, that's plenty of Black & White cash in Hudgell's pocket! That's gotta hurt!

I enjoyed that

Ok, so it counts for nothing - but it's miles better to go to work tomorrow with a win.

Clinton & Paea were excellent. Hall (totally glossing over his error) was also excellent.
Real shame for the kid

Good little earner for us n all

Felt sorry for Hally, had a brilliant game and was responsible for 3x the number of tries for us compared to the 1 he was badly at fault for.
He has been like a new signing since August.

and if we do play our home game at the kc it will be more money bring it on

Now that's another subject entirely, and I don't see it happening.

With all those coins banging against his nads,its bound to.

the injuries were obviously the downside of today, but one of the major upsides was Craig Hall's performance, aside from his mistake obviously. I thought he was excellent!!

A good run out for both sides, I thought the new lad at hooker for us did a steady job when he came on. I also think they seemed to play at a lot quicker place than last year?

And Sandercock has already spoken about how slow he feels the PTB is in England

FC's errors and penalties were forced by Rovers dominance in the middle - Paea, Clinton & Mika were devastating.

O'Hara and Watts didn't play, Galea went off injured and obviously Green wasn't playing yet whoever went out there just seemed capable to plug the gaps and get the job done without any fuss - and this is a trait of top teams so I hope it continues throughout the season.

When FC closed the gap a little, Scotty was itching to get back on and made a difference, he has his critics but played well today.

He was good today was scotty he as slimmed of a bit hasn't he fatty Ellis as taken over as the fattest half back in super league wat a pudding he is

The FC thread for today is worth a read, it's all doom and gloom already.