We missed Jowitt badly tonight for the high ball management and Hall and Bill Tupou were pretty poor. Left some big holes.



Need the back three of BJB, Jowitt and Johnstone back to fitness.

We need England back too.

very strange team selection. Probably the weakest team we have put out all season and it showed. Why put Johnstone on the right? to make way for Bill Tupou ,who should be well down our pecking order IMO.

Bill Toupu is not a winger he's just proved that. Three dropped balls/no contest from the wingers gave KR the momentum. We look really tired and have no leadership at the minute. What a difference a few weeks make. Just hope we don't blow all that great work getting us into this fantastic position.

I was referring to recent weeks when we did have the ability to rotate.

The other Tupou had three major errors that helped Hull KR when they were shaking a bit on 16-26. Two crazy throw the ball anywhere passes near the line then a stupid ball steal giving Rovers position for Dixons dive in the corner.

I guess our only fullback will be back for next week

The first problem was our intensity in the tackle. Compare tonight to the performance against Catalan and Dave Taylor et al. So often they offloaded after hitting the line because it was so powder puff, waiting for them to come to us. On top of that we made too many individual errors early on and the game quickly got away from us putting us under pressure and bringing back some of the ghosts of Webster/Smith past. It was compounded by a couple of close calls that went against us just at the wrong time and effectively ended up in twelve point turn arounds. Someone criticised Finn and Miller, bullsheet they are way down the list of culprits, it was softcock manning up by the forwards that set the wrong tone, just poor application/(fatigue if I'm being generous) rather than not trying as will no doubt be aimed at them. The problem is our brittle confidence might now be shattered for the coming games

On a positive, there's a bit of a break before the next game. Give them the whole weekend off. Back Monday. Line in the sand.

Daft thing is that he is a winger, he's played virtually all his career there prior to joining us. It's just he's not a very good one, just like he's not a particularly good centre either. The fact that tonight was his first try for us soeaks volumes, for a threequarter that is a terrible record. He wouldn't be anywhere near my first choice 17 and as such is a waste of an overseas spot in my opinion.

Where is richard Owen?

Have you resigned some of your players up too early, Widnes did the exact same thing, signed all there players up after a good run, then lost 8 on the trot, I know it shouldn't matter to the players, but do some relax or ease off after getting new contracts. Lots of Rovers players off contract looking for a new deal like Kelly, suddenly start to play.

I have him safely locked away just in case Chester becomes really desperate and thinks about playing him.