[Mild Rover]

Three scores up and... : Sat Feb 23, 2019 5:09 pm  

...we lose.

First of all, i’m going to count some of our blessings and acknowledge some current difficulties.

The last couple of seasons the team has achieved its main goals, and we’re up and running this season with a couple of wins, including a dramatic last gasp victory in the derby. Also, we are missing a few and we’ve got a few still settling in. Plus we know we’re unlikely to be challenging at the very top of end the league, so defeats are going to happen. This, isn’t all woe is me.

But what the poop is it with us chucking away big leads quite as often as we do? It’s like it is in our metaphorical DNA, the flip side of the coin to ‘never write off the Saints’, whoever is playing or coaching. ‘Never bank on the Rovers’. Does it just feel like it happens to us more than to other teams at our level, and much more often than we do it to others? Or is it a real thing?

Has it happened so often that the crowd gets tense when we go 14 up, and that transmits itself to the players? Or something like that?

Bloomin’ heck.

Re: Three scores up and... : Sat Feb 23, 2019 5:16 pm  

Mild Rover wrote:

...we lose.

First of all, i’m going to count some of our blessings and acknowledge some current difficulties.

The last couple of seasons the team has achieved its main goals, and we’re up and running this season with a couple of wins, including a dramatic last gasp victory in the derby. Also, we are missing a few and we’ve got a few still settling in. Plus we know we’re unlikely to be challenging at the very top of end the league, so defeats are going to happen. This, isn’t all woe is me.

But what the poop is it with us chucking away big leads quite as often as we do? It’s like it is in our metaphorical DNA, the flip side of the coin to ‘never write of the Saints’, whoever is playing or coaching. ‘Never bank on the Rovers’. Does it just feel like it happens to us more than to other teams at our level, and much more often than we do it to others? Or is it a real thing?

Has it happened so often that the crowd gets tense when we go 14 up, and that transmits itself to the players? Or something like that?

Bloomin’ heck.

It’s early hopefully the real rovers will turn up I hope

Re: Three scores up and... : Sat Feb 23, 2019 5:26 pm  

My daft thick Rovers mate has just texted me to say it was all the refs fault.

Re: Three scores up and... : Sat Feb 23, 2019 5:30 pm  

WIZEB wrote:

My daft thick Rovers mate has just texted me to say it was all the refs fault.

he must be thick if hes your mate keep trotting

Re: Three scores up and... : Sat Feb 23, 2019 5:37 pm  

rover 2000 wrote:

he must be thick if hes your mate keep trotting

He's as mahogany as you.

Re: Three scores up and... : Sat Feb 23, 2019 5:47 pm  

WIZEB wrote:

He's as mahogany as you.

are you a hampton of withernsea or gisumville

Re: Three scores up and... : Sat Feb 23, 2019 6:06 pm  

rover 2000 wrote:

are you a hampton of withernsea or gisumville

Yes. I'm on the electoral roll.
I gave you to much credit.
More balsa than mahogany.

Re: Three scores up and... : Sat Feb 23, 2019 6:28 pm  

Sau should have seen red. Again we are on the wrong side of it Tomkins perfectly good try wiped off. Lack of speed at PTB.Missed tackles and poor end to sets. Should have won that but until we have our key men playing with heads up and controlling things we invite teams back in. Hastings milking penalties and being generally grubby doesn't mask the fact he's the best half in the league

Re: Three scores up and... : Sat Feb 23, 2019 6:34 pm  

WIZEB wrote:

Yes. I'm on the electoral roll.
I gave you to much credit.
More balsa than mahogany.

Disappointing today but looking forward to listening to Radfords heroes tomorrow. I like a bit of beach fishing so With is fine place

Re: Three scores up and... : Sat Feb 23, 2019 8:17 pm  

We'll always be perenial under achievers untill we sort out our defencive problems, missed tackles, dropping off tackles, shooting out of the line.
We never improve in these areas year after year, no matter who the coach is.
Last week half time came at the right time, unfortunatly it went against us today because we went in thinking the job was done and we never got going again. Credit to Salford for jumping on us as we dozed off