the artist wrote:
i always say this - rovers would be better off putting the same effort into all their games. Instead they get up for games against us, but then always seem to be unable to replicate it in the games that they should be winning or at least competing in. if anyone has too much time on their hands i would love to see how their games go following a derby match
Excluding play-offs and middle 8s, Rovers SL record today stands at 133 wins, 10 draws and 174 defeats (.435 as they’d have it in the US).
Against Hull FC in regular season SL fixtures Rovers record is 17 wins and 20 defeats or .459.
In the next SL game following a derby Rovers record is 16 wins and 19 defeats or .457.
There are two fewer ‘next games’, as I haven’t counted them when they fell in the next season e.g. the last derby of 2008 was in the final round of that season
There’s no obvious pattern I noticed beyond a tendency for Rovers to win more derbies and more next games when they were better. For example, under Morgan, Rovers were 9-6 up in regular season derbies and had a 8-6 record in next games. Since then it has been 8-14 and 8-13, respectively.
Irregular Hoops wrote:
Didn’t they have a record defeat (Wigan?) three days after a derby victory?
We did and then beat Saints the game after that. However, given that Wigan did the double that year, it wasn’t an obvious game to target at the expense of taking two points from a more winnable match versus the 2013 edition of Hull FC.
