Re: Hull KR at home this Thursday evening : Fri Feb 21, 2025 9:36 am  

Still buzzing ,thought last week's performance was good ,but more impressed with last night ,Trueman out with a bug ,Hall past fit to play, but last minute call because of the bug .Fans go on about Warmsly ,but though he did well I see we got the (,if we lose let's blame Lino fans in again ) all the kicking had to be done by him ,as we had no experience 9 playing but thought both the young 9 went well ..The one player who is not impressing me is Russell .Had a chance to shine but did not bring a lot to the team last night .But the brand of rugby we are playing is on a different planet to any thing I have seen from Wakefield for a lot of years .And if we keep playing as a team to that standed every week, who ever is in the team, we are going to win more than we will lose

Re: Hull KR at home this Thursday evening : Fri Feb 21, 2025 9:36 am  

First time that I can remember, coming away from a game delighted with the team performance, albeit miserable that we lost. Effort and skill all 100%. Special mention yet again to Mike who just isn't human with the mins and workrate he produces!

Re: Hull KR at home this Thursday evening : Fri Feb 21, 2025 9:39 am  

Spookisback wrote:

my thoughts after watching the game twice..

mike Mckmeeken adds so much by being just out on the pitch... His influence tonight was off the scale...
The middles (after a sticky start) equalled and sometimes bettered their much vaunted opposites.
Vangana had his best game in a Trinity shirt.. He added impetus from the moment he took the field.
Caius looked more settled and his contribution to field position set up the opportunity for John Stones try.
I thought the halves were excellent, particularly with ball in hand (the kicking game wasn't great but neither was HKRs so I think the wind played a part in that)
defensively we look so organised.. Two weeks running we concede our first try to a fluky kick.
ollie Pratt grows every time he plays... May that continue... Big effort from Hall considering his sickness.
Max Jowitt is fast becoming the best full back I have seen in a Trinity shirt in 50 years.
And the team energy is outstanding!

It seems like we mostly drew the same conclusions - apart from how we thought our halves went. I thought they were okay shifting the ball, but thought Russell in particular kicked poorly. Swap Trueman in and we win that game, in my opinion. Overall I'm proud of last night - we're going to be alright this year, especially when we get some bodies back in spring. Imagine our side with Scott, Trueman, Hood, Nikotemo (or Griffin) and Rodwell back in it.

Re: Hull KR at home this Thursday evening : Fri Feb 21, 2025 9:50 am  

Butcher wrote:

It seems like we mostly drew the same conclusions - apart from how we thought our halves went. I thought they were okay shifting the ball, but thought Russell in particular kicked poorly. Swap Trueman in and we win that game, in my opinion. Overall I'm proud of last night - we're going to be alright this year, especially when we get some bodies back in spring. Imagine our side with Scott, Trueman, Hood, Nikotemo (or Griffin) and Rodwell back in it.

Griffin, as a starter, is done for me, he was starting to become a liability in the Championship and he's another year older following a serious injury. He's back up now.

Re: Hull KR at home this Thursday evening : Fri Feb 21, 2025 9:54 am  

After comparing the 2 sides before kick off and expecting a KR team with a point to prove after their Cas match I thought we would do well to even come close tonight so I left the game immensely proud and upbeat about the season ahead.

Powell post match comments are right, the boys are a superb team, showing up for each other and giving everything till the end.

Pleasing points for me…we looks so dangerous when attacking out wide, our defence out wide has also massively improved. We can compete with a depleted squad against one of the biggest packs in the league, we have more quality in depth than I first thought.

Special mentions to Jowitt, Storton, Pratt and Smith tonight who had fantastic games.

Finally, I’m not sure who had a worse game the ref or Jarrod W Hargreaves. Both were awful.

Re: Hull KR at home this Thursday evening : Fri Feb 21, 2025 9:59 am  

Droopy wrote:

After comparing the 2 sides before kick off and expecting a KR team with a point to prove after their Cas match I thought we would do well to even come close tonight so I left the game immensely proud and upbeat about the season ahead.

Powell post match comments are right, the boys are a superb team, showing up for each other and giving everything till the end.

Pleasing points for me…we looks so dangerous when attacking out wide, our defence out wide has also massively improved. We can compete with a depleted squad against one of the biggest packs in the league, we have more quality in depth than I first thought.

Special mentions to Jowitt, Storton, Pratt and Smith tonight who had fantastic games.

Finally, I’m not sure who had a worse game the ref or Jarrod W Hargreaves. Both were awful.

The ref had the worst performance but it was close.

Re: Hull KR at home this Thursday evening : Fri Feb 21, 2025 10:02 am  

Droopy wrote:

After comparing the 2 sides before kick off and expecting a KR team with a point to prove after their Cas match I thought we would do well to even come close tonight so I left the game immensely proud and upbeat about the season ahead.

Powell post match comments are right, the boys are a superb team, showing up for each other and giving everything till the end.

Pleasing points for me…we looks so dangerous when attacking out wide, our defence out wide has also massively improved. We can compete with a depleted squad against one of the biggest packs in the league, we have more quality in depth than I first thought.

Special mentions to Jowitt, Storton, Pratt and Smith tonight who had fantastic games.

Finally, I’m not sure who had a worse game the ref or Jarrod W Hargreaves. Both were awful.

Agree with all that, but on the last part would have Touchie Griffiths as the worst on ground, did not even see Burgess in touch, never saw a forward pass or a high shot.

[Wildthing]

Re: Hull KR at home this Thursday evening : Fri Feb 21, 2025 10:04 am  

Oliver Pratt was trending on Twitter last night after the game.
He's getting noticed and rightly so.

Re: Hull KR at home this Thursday evening : Fri Feb 21, 2025 10:17 am  

Big lads mate wrote:

The only thing between the teams way that doylam with the whistle, amazes me their interpretation of the game

Don't want to ref bash, but he made some shocking decisions.....
Anyone remember the Kelepi tackled without the ball in the in-goal at Wire and he just played on??

Re: Hull KR at home this Thursday evening : Fri Feb 21, 2025 10:54 am  

burtonsrlfc wrote:

First time that I can remember, coming away from a game delighted with the team performance, albeit miserable that we lost. Effort and skill all 100%. Special mention yet again to Mike who just isn't human with the mins and workrate he produces!

For me, McMeeken is the difference. With him playing 70/80 mins a game in the front row it’s essentially like having 2 international quality players in the team. How long he can do it for, I don’t really know. When Rodwell and Atoni are back that’ll take the pressure off him hopefully but he’s unreal is the lad. Genuinely international class who if he carries on playing like this will walk into the test team against the Aussies later in the year.