: Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:51 pm  

ST STEPHEN wrote:

Well done Hull KR. They played well. and deserved the win.

Fans were great and if theyd have filled the Eddington End it would have been an awesome sight when the hooter went!

JUst wondering (as you dont get a good idea of actual number when in the crowd) how many Rovers fans IYO did we bring?
Awaits the classic, always hilarious "oh Rovers fans think they take 6,000,000 fans everywhere (school girl giggling)."

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:17 am  

ST STEPHEN wrote:

Well done Hull KR. They played well. and deserved the win.

Fans were great and if theyd have filled the Eddington End it would have been an awesome sight when the hooter went!

Can't imagine many teams do that apart from Wigan and Wire though

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:46 am  

MSH wrote:

Is there a difference between the genders in East Hull? 6 "girls" came out of the lads bogs in the pub last night, and 2 minutes later, went back in again. This seemed to support my view that there is only one gender in Hull

Maybe they just followed your supporters in there thinking they were girls

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:01 am  

EL CAMO wrote:

JUst wondering (as you dont get a good idea of actual number when in the crowd) how many Rovers fans IYO did we bring?
Awaits the classic, always hilarious "oh Rovers fans think they take 6,000,000 fans everywhere (school girl giggling)."

i would say about 1,000 - which is more than any other Yorkshire club will bring over on a Frdiay night.

on the whole, HKR deserved to win - we made too many mistakes and gave the referee too much opportunity to penalise us.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:50 am  

saints35 bulls0 wrote:

i would say about 1,000 - which is more than any other Yorkshire club will bring over on a Frdiay night.

on the whole, HKR deserved to win - we made too many mistakes and gave the referee too much opportunity to penalise us.

I would say about 1,000 too. TBF, I think Leeds would bring more, but it was a good turnout considering the distance between Hull and St. Helens. Both team always bring good support to the respeective venues.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 12:49 pm  

It was a very strange game. Neither side seemed to get going really.

Michael Dobson had a top game, his kick that set up Peter Foxes try was a great piece of vision. Hull KR look a better side without Cooke hogging the ball. They will need a couple more players to become championship contenders but they are not that far off. Also they will have to become dominant against the smaller teams as well as picking up points at the big teams to be successful this year.

Saints did not have a bad game but seemed to lack structure and balance. I am still unsure who was playing stand off in the second half. Looking at the team sheet someone who did not watch the game would assume that Saints had suffered through lack of experience, when in fact it was the senior players that let the team down. Wilkin, Wellens/Gardner and Long were at fault for the Hull KR tries. The young players did there part and were not shown up at any point.

Ian Smith had a poor game but was not the reason why Saints lost even though I disagree with the penalty call. The man is one bad ref and he had a bad game in the Warrington game as well. Fans are always going to be upset if a game is close and there are a number of poor refereeing decisions. I just wish Saints did not seem to get him all the time. He is the worst ref in the League by a distance in my opinion.

To sum the game up an encouraging result for HKR and not the end of the world for Saints as the performance showed they have a strong squad.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:34 pm  

saints35 bulls0 wrote:

i would say about 1,000 - which is more than any other Yorkshire club will bring over on a Frdiay night.

on the whole, HKR deserved to win - we made too many mistakes and gave the referee too much opportunity to penalise us.

I would say about 1,000 too. TBF, I think Leeds would bring more, but it was a good turnout considering the distance between Hull and St. Helens. Both team always bring good support to the respeective venues.

how can you spout crap like that, hull kr always take 4-5000 to away games,no doubt the rovers lot will be onm soon dismissing you as
lepers just like the bradford chairman for not telling them they took 5k to odsal

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:40 pm  

Good to see you laugh at your own 'jokes'. I do think some more original material is long overdue though.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:53 pm  

EL CAMO wrote:

JUst wondering (as you dont get a good idea of actual number when in the crowd) how many Rovers fans IYO did we bring?
Awaits the classic, always hilarious "oh Rovers fans think they take 6,000,000 fans everywhere (school girl giggling)."

I'd say between 1k and 1.3k, probably closer to the latter. The Eddy End is quite a sizable stand and holds a good 4k, so even half full is a good following.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:09 pm  

MSH wrote:

I'd say between 1k and 1.3k, probably closer to the latter. The Eddy End is quite a sizable stand and holds a good 4k, so even half full is a good following.

The clubs can give a good idea as to how many as they are allocated tickets to sell by the home club, according to HKR they received 2,500 for the Bulls game and when I rang for one last minute they had none left and told me to ring Odsal direct, that would lead me to believe that there were 2,500 there unless some bought them and did not bother going.