[Mild Rover]

Re: TV Games - Not Hull : Sat Sep 14, 2024 7:22 am  

hull2524 wrote:

Give over. A lot tipping the big dogs to win it this year. Pundits drooling over the Dobbins. Second favourites. I just think there will bottle it.

Everybody expects not-Wigan/Saints/Leeds to ‘bottle it’ every year, and they’re invariably right.

Rovers being good offers a little bit of novelty in a competition that is mostly bereft of it, and it is one of the two or three subplots that pop up each year to help get us through to the same routine and predictable conclusion of the main storyline.

Re: TV Games - Not Hull : Sat Sep 14, 2024 7:37 am  

I do think Rovers will get to Old Trafford. They've got a home semi which will be massive for them.

When did they last lose at home? Wire in round 4?

Re: TV Games - Not Hull : Sat Sep 14, 2024 8:27 am  

mwindass wrote:

I do think Rovers will get to Old Trafford. They've got a home semi which will be massive for them.

When did they last lose at home? Wire in round 4?

They have a very good chance of getting to OT, however it will only take one forward pass or a sin bin against them in the semi final to send them into meltdown.

[Mild Rover]

Re: TV Games - Not Hull : Sat Sep 14, 2024 8:48 am  

mwindass wrote:

I do think Rovers will get to Old Trafford. They've got a home semi which will be massive for them.

When did they last lose at home? Wire in round 4?

Catalans, round 16.

Home semi tbc. Wire have got a couple of games they could run up scores in. I’d like to think we can knock over Leeds though to complete a 2024 Yorkshire slam. That’d be nice.

Re: TV Games - Not Hull : Sat Sep 14, 2024 9:12 am  

Mild Rover wrote:

Everybody expects not-Wigan/Saints/Leeds to ‘bottle it’ every year, and they’re invariably right.

Rovers being good offers a little bit of novelty in a competition that is mostly bereft of it, and it is one of the two or three subplots that pop up each year to help get us through to the same routine and predictable conclusion of the main storyline.

It’s Wigan saints , Leeds went out that conversation 10 years ago

Re: TV Games - Not Hull : Sat Sep 14, 2024 9:18 am  

Theeaststander1 wrote:

It’s Wigan saints , Leeds went out that conversation 10 years ago

Leeds won the grand final in 2017 and the cup in 2020, you've been out of the conversation for 40 years, easy to get confused over a few years here and there.

Re: TV Games - Not Hull : Sat Sep 14, 2024 9:52 am  

Dreadful decision from SKY to move the Wigan game at short notice. Gives high chance the Rovers game will be relegated to 'win a home playoff game' status rather than chance of winning the trophy. If I was a Wigan fan who works Thursday nights id be fuming.

SKY have the game by the balls, they could tell us games are on at 2am on a Tuesday morning and we'd have no say in the matter.

Re: TV Games - Not Hull : Sat Sep 14, 2024 9:59 am  

UllFC wrote:

Dreadful decision from SKY to move the Wigan game at short notice. Gives high chance the Rovers game will be relegated to 'win a home playoff game' status rather than chance of winning the trophy. If I was a Wigan fan who works Thursday nights id be fuming.

SKY have the game by the balls, they could tell us games are on at 2am on a Tuesday morning and we'd have no say in the matter.

Sky wanting the plate award to be done on the night I guess

Re: TV Games - Not Hull : Sat Sep 14, 2024 10:04 am  

UllFC wrote:

Dreadful decision from SKY to move the Wigan game at short notice. Gives high chance the Rovers game will be relegated to 'win a home playoff game' status rather than chance of winning the trophy. If I was a Wigan fan who works Thursday nights id be fuming.

SKY have the game by the balls, they could tell us games are on at 2am on a Tuesday morning and we'd have no say in the matter.

He who pays the piper.. and all that!
Too be fair, even the Premier League is, too a degree, subservient to the whims of Sky/TNT, and that competition has way more clout than Rugby League.
Without the Sky money RL would no longer be viable in its current set-up. We have no choice but to tug our forelock and fall in line with these sudden decisions unfortunately.

Re: TV Games - Not Hull : Sat Sep 14, 2024 10:05 am  

Jake the Peg wrote:

Sky wanting the plate award to be done on the night I guess

Premier League's way of handling it would have been to have the trophy at Wigan as they start the day in 1st. Having a helicopter made for great TV that time Hall won it for Leeds but then again it'll be wild winds at burger van land in September