Barry said at half time…Rovers deserve to be more than level. More than level? What does that mean?
They weren’t even level!

Bang on IMHO

Well, first of all, great entertainment, despite the errors. And a great effort to get the win. I listened to Joe and Bilko for the first half, and went down the pub to watch the second half, so I didn't see Junior's try-saving effort. I'm looking forward to watching the whole game back. I agree with NK that Shorrocks did good in some key areas. Super finish from Miski, who seems to have exceeded all our expectations.

"I've seen all the possible angles" apart from the one that showed he'd dropped it!!! Theyvtried their best give him the 2nd one aswell!!!
Definate 'strip' on Smithies but no guarantee Smith would've kicked it.
Ellis was very good. Mago is actually improving need to use him Paleasena style near the line maybe

So you don't rate Field then?

Absolutely spot on Jon! Are we also ignoring the short turn around plus the fact that most of that pack had to play tonight's game on the back of long minutes too?

Discipline was awful. Harry's place kicking was poor. But for guts, resilience and an ability to score remarkable tries from anywhere on the field that was absolute top draw.

Credit Hull KR too as they contributed to a real spectacle. They should do well this year and are putting themselves firmly in the contender bracket....although the still frame that Hall's first try was given on clearly showed at least 3 inches of separation. He also didn't celebrate (as he didn't for the 2nd no try either to be fair). We'll gloss over that though as HKR were worthy of being in this game.

Not perfect by a long chalk. But if we show that level of effort and guts when we get bodies back it bodes well.

Our backs are absolutely outstanding, Smith had a dodgey game but has been great the majority of the year. The two centres are going well and great finishes from the wingers. Stick Field in for Hampshire in the next couple of weeks and that’s some back line.

The pack was terrible tonight and got rolled all night, we are down 5 probably first choice 17ers from the pack so not too unexpected. Havard has been papering over the cracks in recent weeks.


Big time players make big time plays in big time situations Bevan and Farrell were outstanding tonight.

Barry’s IQ is in single digits.

He was on about the Leigh game.

If French went down, we’ve got another freak back in the next week or two anyway, so we’ll just stick him in there instead. Playing them both together would be fun though.

Mixed bag from the forwards. I thought Ellis was absolutely superb with the ball and Mago/Nsemba added plenty of go forward from the bench. I can’t say I’ve been hugely impressed with Liam Byrne this season and I was hoping to see him really step up last night in the absence of Havard/Cooper/Singleton etc but he’s nowhere near his best.

We can cut them all a bit of slack though. We’re down to the bare bones in there, they were playing at a club who are buzzing and against a club that’s filled their squad with experienced forwards. They were missing a couple of forwards but they feel like Cas of that crazy season they had, in that they have a stock pile of forwards, who might not have had careers at the trophy winning clubs but they’re big, experienced and have a point to prove.

They said that about Field. But we've been without him for weeks now, and yet last night we were still able to score at will against your lot, who were playing out of their skins, and still didn't win.

Coming off the back of a defeat against Warrington in SL and missing two massive players in Coote & Abdul. Hardly played out of our skins.

Wigan are arguably better with just French playing, I think sometimes the two of Field and French playing together doesn’t work. French has gone to a different level this season and there’s no shame on saying that he makes the world of difference to that team. Saying that, in 165 mins of us playing Wigan this season, French has only made one break but how frustrating being a fan of Rovers that it was the one break that lost us the match.