Re: Catalans game : Thu Apr 07, 2016 11:12 pm  

That was awful at home against the Catalans 0 40
Why have we got the smallest squad in the league
We made a few quid last year
Our recruitment is poor the CEO Smith has been quiet these last months.
I know that without Hudgell and Crossland we would be finished financially

Where do we go from here. Don't say down to the coast I fear
We celebrate our tenth year in the league
Catalan have been in eleven
I remember playing them in the cup when they were UTC before promotion

Re: Catalans game : Thu Apr 07, 2016 11:14 pm  

roversmad wrote:

Who shall we sign then?

I would actually try and get Livegrove back. Not perfect but a damn sight better and cheaper than Tilse. Sandercock was the reason he left.

Re: Catalans game : Thu Apr 07, 2016 11:17 pm  

Hessle rover wrote:

I'm not saying that one person is better than another, what I despair at is that we all (seem) to accept that what we watch at rovers is the 'norm'. Well i'll tell most of you.....it's bloody awful. The team of 2006 that beat wire in the Challenge cup quarters would muller us right now.
We've seen to of all been hypnotised that what we see is ok. Peacock hasn't shown his worth and the board have been as silent as I've ever known.
I'm just providing a different prospective to what some of you don't seem to get.

Sorry but that 2006 side wouldn't beat the current side as good as that QF win was we got thumped in the semi and the problem with overseas signings now is not that many top class players come over and when they do they don't want to play for a bottom four club so you either take a chance ie campese and hope it comes off or take a chance on a young player from the Queensland cup

Re: Catalans game : Thu Apr 07, 2016 11:28 pm  

fun time frankie wrote:

Sorry but that 2006 side wouldn't beat the current side as good as that QF win was we got thumped in the semi and the problem with overseas signings now is not that many top class players come over and when they do they don't want to play for a bottom four club so you either take a chance ie campese and hope it comes off or take a chance on a young player from the Queensland cup

That 2006 side lost the semi without Webster, the always impressive Michael Smith, and a lot of other influential players. Don't kid yourself, that side would give out team right now one hell of a game.
We've payed top money for our overseas players, I don't get why some fans see it 'ok' that we are where we are right now. It's a bloody disgrace to me!

Re: Catalans game : Thu Apr 07, 2016 11:39 pm  

Rover105 wrote:

I remember playing them in the cup when they were UTC before promotion

Erm, we lost that game.

A player we should have tried to sign, Jamal Fakir destroyed us.

Re: Catalans game : Thu Apr 07, 2016 11:41 pm  

Hessle rover wrote:

That 2006 side lost the semi without Webster, the always impressive Michael Smith, and a lot of other influential players. Don't kid yourself, that side would give out team right now one hell of a game.
We've payed top money for our overseas players, I don't get why some fans see it 'ok' that we are where we are right now. It's a bloody disgrace to me!

I could understand your frustrations if we had our full first team out there playing but we haven't and until we do things won't change

Re: Catalans game : Thu Apr 07, 2016 11:57 pm  

Hessle rover wrote:

That 2006 side lost the semi without Webster, the always impressive Michael Smith, and a lot of other influential players. Don't kid yourself, that side would give out team right now one hell of a game.
We've payed top money for our overseas players, I don't get why some fans see it 'ok' that we are where we are right now. It's a bloody disgrace to me!

None of us are happy, I just don't see what's to be achieved by being the most outraged.

If what you're saying is that those early teams, the Morgan teams, were more than the sum of those parts then I agree.

We were an over performing team then, and that's why you have a coach and that's what their job is.

Currently, we are an under performing team, but we're a club, not a team (there needs to be a distinction between club and team) that's trying to retain our top flight status whilst hopefully becoming more sustainable, and so we're told that there is a plan.

It might be nice if they told us what the plan is whilst we all shell out for season ticket's.

Many of us have expressed that we couldn't understand why we didn't go out and get a strike back rower and a nasty prop. We all put that down to Chester's recruitment objectives, but he's gone and we're none the wiser as to why that didn't happen or why we're not in the loan market.

I am aware that I've stepped on both sides of the line, it was entirely intentional.

Re: Catalans game : Fri Apr 08, 2016 6:50 am  

roversmad wrote:

Who shall we sign then?

After the pay off we won't be able to sign anyone as to just "get rid" mid season would cost a fortune and it would all come off the cap. So, back in the real world Tilse is staying and after all, he really isn't as bad as some make out. I await the stats being published to show this.

Re: Catalans game : Fri Apr 08, 2016 6:51 am  

Gallanteer wrote:

I would actually try and get Livegrove back. Not perfect but a damn sight better and cheaper than Tilse. Sandercock was the reason he left.

When you say "cheaper" does that include the transfer fee as well as the pay off to get rid of Tilse?

Re: Catalans game : Fri Apr 08, 2016 7:02 am  

SirStan wrote:

When you say "cheaper" does that include the transfer fee as well as the pay off to get rid of Tilse?

Possibly. He's playing for Bradford at the mo. I notice you didn't dispute that he is better than Tilse. My son calls Tilse the BFG because of his lack of aggression.