Re: Hull KR v Leeds Final : Sun Aug 02, 2015 5:53 pm  

Les Norton wrote:

Agreed. Our followings to OT never shrank, the opposite if anything

I seem to remember the 2011 CC Final when quite a few said they weren't going to go due to fear of us taking a beating from a Wigan team who were miles ahead of us performance wise during that year. Some even predicted a 30+ point loss for us that day.

Re: Hull KR v Leeds Final : Sun Aug 02, 2015 8:07 pm  

ThePrinter wrote:

I seem to remember the 2011 CC Final when quite a few said they weren't going to go due to fear of us taking a beating from a Wigan team who were miles ahead of us performance wise during that year. Some even predicted a 30+ point loss for us that day.

Yep and we were robbed in the end, but more importantly never lost again and won the grand final

Re: Hull KR v Leeds Final : Sun Aug 02, 2015 9:49 pm  

Bookinh tickets in the morning. Watched the hull kr wire game today and they have some threats.

Re: Hull KR v Leeds Final : Sun Aug 09, 2015 11:26 am  

Albert Kelly likely to miss the Final with a knee injury.

Losing Aiton is a blow for us but that really knackers their chances if he doesn't play for KR.

Re: Hull KR v Leeds Final : Sun Aug 09, 2015 12:13 pm  

For a large part of yesterday's game, Rovers were awful.

Thankfully for them, Leigh fell into a heap in terms of discipline and execution under pressure and handed them the opportunities to get back in the game.

If they rock up at Wembley and deliver that first half performance again, they'll be forty points behind by the break.

Re: Hull KR v Leeds Final : Sun Aug 09, 2015 12:16 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

For a large part of yesterday's game, Rovers were awful.

Thankfully for them, Leigh fell into a heap in terms of discipline and execution under pressure and handed them the opportunities to get back in the game.

If they rock up at Wembley and deliver that first half performance again, they'll be forty points behind by the break.

....but they won't though will they. They already have their eye on the Wembley ball....and watch this space regards Kelly I think.

Re: Hull KR v Leeds Final : Sun Aug 09, 2015 1:10 pm  

nantwichexile wrote:

....but they won't though will they. They already have their eye on the Wembley ball....and watch this space regards Kelly I think.

I've been thinking the same thing. I always have an uneasy feeling when an opposing coach rules out a key player from a massive game weeks away. A bit like the one you get when cold called by someone you don't know telling you that you've a holiday in
a competition you didn't enter.

Re: Hull KR v Leeds Final : Sun Aug 09, 2015 1:17 pm  

I'm sure it's genuine, just a bit of extra time to make sure he's 100% and not carrying anything into the final.

Re: Hull KR v Leeds Final : Sun Aug 09, 2015 2:57 pm  

Kelly will play. how fit he is is another matter

Re: Hull KR v Leeds Final : Sun Aug 09, 2015 5:00 pm  

Kelly offers very little that any time should be worried about, fit or not. He's easily targeted out of the game, and has looked lost since Campese's injury. People talk about him like he's some sort of Joey Johns reborn, but I don't see it. There's a reason not one NRL side wanted to take a punt on him instead of him coming to a mediocre, mid-table SL side.