Re: Hull KR at home this Thursday evening : Fri Feb 21, 2025 7:53 am  

Great team effort the mentality to win is clearly there. The team stepped up last night everyone who pulled the shirt on put in a great shift. With lots missing and up against a top team with it's front line pack on the pitch I thought we were excellent. We didn't get the rub of the green or anywhere near the 50/50s but our defensive structures are top drawer and the attack will just get better. A shout for young Harvey he really showed up last night against some big blokes.

Re: Hull KR at home this Thursday evening : Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:09 am  

Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:

That awful last kick from Lino really took the gloss off our performance.

A bit harsh that init and rather petty.

Re: Hull KR at home this Thursday evening : Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:13 am  

Massive respect to our players, they looked like they were going to take a battering in that first 15/20 minutes but they squared up to the challenge and met it head on. HKR are one of the teams that sets the benchmark for this league, and with half a team missing we matched them and gave them a scare.

Re: Hull KR at home this Thursday evening : Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:25 am  

Honour in defeat last night.
Plenty of talking points and if's and buts, ultimately, we pulled up just short.
A monumental effort and if the conversion at the end goes over, we go on and win the game.
Great to see BV bouncing and cant wait for the next round.

Re: Hull KR at home this Thursday evening : Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:33 am  

Hull Kr play a very boring though effective game. They played near identical tactics to the Grand Final. It’s not expansive, it’s a grind and they keep you in it set for set. They have very powerful wingers and a very good pack who aim to gain 4/50 metres, get on our 3/40 and pen you in on the left hand side with a short but high kick.
Our kicking game was poor last night when we really needed it to get out of our own half to alleviate the strangle hold especially in the first half. We did fantastic to go set for set and for large periods looked by far the better team. I feel it was the little 1%’s that cost us at the end unfortunately, kicks out of play, poor kicking, knock on et al. But being neck and neck with last years finalists with I reckon 7 shoe in starting 17 players is absolutely incredible and I actually feel more proud of the team today than I did last week.

Also a special mention to the Ref with some bizarre calls

Re: Hull KR at home this Thursday evening : Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:44 am  

Great effort from the lads, a chance to nick it at the end.
2 moments for me the kick out on the full by Jowitt and the knock-on which was unsuccessfully challenged, turned the momentum back in KR's favour, we was on a roll both times.
Cant wait for the saints game! decent bit of rest for the boys get some bodies back and into em!

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Re: Hull KR at home this Thursday evening : Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:51 am  

I don't actually think our kicking game was so bad last night.
The key one was Max's u fortunately which led to the try.

We were getting hammered on our line and couldn't get out of our 20 sometimes and the kicks weren't long to get us downfield but Lino was kicking them high to give us a chance to get there. Rovers have a great kick return so if we'd given them open field to run at we could have been caught out.
Plus the drop out for Tom. Worked once, an inch off twice.

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Re: Hull KR at home this Thursday evening : Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:54 am  

Also worth saying they scored off a piece of luck, though clearly a good kick and reaction, and a piece of individual skill.

We scored off two edge to edge team plays. Both executed perfectly. Max's pass to Tom was world class.
Bodes well for rest of season.

Re: Hull KR at home this Thursday evening : Fri Feb 21, 2025 9:06 am  

PopTart wrote:

I don't actually think our kicking game was so bad last night.
The key one was Max's u fortunately which led to the try.

We were getting hammered on our line and couldn't get out of our 20 sometimes and the kicks weren't long to get us downfield but Lino was kicking them high to give us a chance to get there. Rovers have a great kick return so if we'd given them open field to run at we could have been caught out.
Plus the drop out for Tom. Worked once, an inch off twice.

Russell’s kicking game isn’t the best. I don’t mind Lino’s as like you say he kicks it up high to get out kick chasers there. They’re all little 1%’s. And yes there first try was beyond lucky. Apart from the Lewis try which was fairly soft, they didn’t look like scoring.

Re: Hull KR at home this Thursday evening : Fri Feb 21, 2025 9:20 am  

Pat Bateman wrote:

Russell’s kicking game isn’t the best. I don’t mind Lino’s as like you say he kicks it up high to get out kick chasers there. They’re all little 1%’s. And yes there first try was beyond lucky. Apart from the Lewis try which was fairly soft, they didn’t look like scoring.

Exactly, a lucky bounce off a crossbar was the difference.

I said as soon as the ball was passed to Max it should have gone left to Russell. Max was under all sorted of pressure to get that kick away.

But you know what. The players should all be praised after that. We will beat many teams playing like that this season. Keep it up because it’s working.