Can't believe I watched 80 minutes of dribble for a 10 minute section at the end





Agree about the Wane comment though. Whether their is any truth in it is a different matter.



Smith was name dropped at the end too....

Glad I’m not the only one who finds it a hard watch. Thought it was just me!

I didn't mind the video Harrison did with Matt Shaw when we signed Walker, but most of the time it's a struggle.



If nothing Hull related is on I give it a miss.



It comes across as an ego massaging exercise....

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... kr-7554566 Pretty much what Cooke said on Humberside the other night. Probably helps allay any fears he isn't a disciplinarian like Wane and Madge

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... kr-7554566 Pretty much what Cooke said on Humberside the other night. Probably helps allay any fears he isn't a disciplinarian like Wane and Madge

If we are talking about past glories, at least they were in this century. Rovers have (or had) a 10-5 bar or stand at the cowshed, celebrating a game that was 42 years ago. There is a whole generation of Rovers fans that hear that tale from their grandparents, so what does that say.

In truth, with a couple of shrewd signings, on paper , our current squad is decent and could go very well. Fully agree with other posters about Griffin and Tag, but they didn't become bad players overnight, and, until his achilles injury, Griffin was being touted as a world cup candidate for England. Surely a good coach could take him back to somewhere near that level. His performances this season have been abject, and on the face of it, unprofessional, but we don't really know what had happened behind the scenes, we actually form opinions on rumour. Maybe things have happened that we haven't been told about, which have played a role in the whole situation and I am sure AP will know the whole truth, which maybe why BH has gone? Flogging Danny Houghton for 80 minutes made no sense to any of us, apart from the coach and he is still a good player to have in the squad, if we play him at the right time and for the right length of minutes, to mentor Balmforth, who is not yet at the level required, but could be soon.

In any case, a new approach is definitely needed, we could be serious relegation candidates next year, Leigh have a squad that already would compete with the mid table SL clubs as is, and they will strengthen further if they manage to win their competition.

Strange that Korbin Sims and Albert Vete did not perform for TS despite him signing them. As soon as he left they were different players. Albert dominated FC on Saturday.

Could be a whole host of factors in that, it could be coach, style of play, fitness or injuries.

Doris the HKR tea lady could have dominated our pack on Saturday. Not a high bar to be fair.



Vete has been abject whenever I’ve seen him, so a couple of above average performances aren’t really a transformation.

Nobody is saying Smith is the perfect coach, if he was he would be coaching at a top club in the NRL, but the fact remains he has done a good job at every SL club he has been too, including improving them and leaving them in a better position than when he started. If we can say that about him when he leaves, then he has been a good appointment.

Indeed





We made it easy for them on Saturday and suddenly they think they are all world class players





Must have missed the last few months where the Dobbins have been beating everyone on their march to glory

Whilst Rovers were deserved winners in the game in all honesty and putting things in to context even a team of under 16's would have dominated us as we were so poor. Also factor in the fact that Vete will also have been putting himself in the shop window with no new deal with your club.



It was a very poor season for both sides and neither should be happy with the position in the league they've achieved.

Albert Vete had no need to put himself in the shop window, he signed for Castleford a few weeks ago.

Right you are, but do you think Tony Smith would be a good appointment?

Thinking about Hodgson going along with Purtill and the statements made a few weeks ago about other possible incomings in that we were waiting for the world cup etc. I just wonder if changes were already being seriously considered so that if a coaching change was made any new Coach would at least have some opportunity to make one or two additions of their own?

Could the wait until the world cup just have been a smoke screen to pause anymore recruitment or am I just being a conspiracy theorist

I like it

My response to KTR points was not just about the derby game, re Vetes derby dominating performance I said to put in to context etc and then about his so called improvement in form since Smith left his post.

From a coaching point of view yes. Unfortunately he has a bit of a history of spitting his dummy out, not just at KR. If Mr Pearson can avoid upsetting him I’m sure he’ll improve your club’s performances.

Big meeting today which will decide some futures, incoming, and outgoing!

Must admit I find it strange when they say they are waiting for the world cup.



Surely every player taking part in the World Cup is known to the club in some form?

Would like to think the new coach would have some input in to such a meeting?

I think he'll be front and centre

haha, clever! bye bye taylor and griffin hopefully

Can't see Taylor or Griffin going without us having to contribute a large part of the salary - similar to Fonua this year.



Griffin is the one that told Hodgson to F off in training after being asked to do something he didnt want to do - walked off the training pitch - so he would be first out.

You've given me way too much credit for that!



Didn't even realise

Been told the same from one of the sponsors earlier this morning.

Pearson wielding a very big axe by all accounts and wants big changes throughout the whole club.