KR

I thought our first set of six at the start of the game turned out to be our best set. After that things went downhill despite our efforts. Too many errors killed us. We had chances to score, particularly in the first half, but failed to take them. The Burgess knock on chance in the first half was the sort we were taking every time in the second half of last season. Hull KR did a good job on us. There were no frills from them but their forwards got on top and their kicking game caused us problems. If we reduce the number of mistakes (which shouldn't be too difficult) we can compete much more effectively than we did lasty night.

My god, the negativity on here 🤦‍♂️🤣 it’s one game lads. Things will start to click. We just need to stay in the race and peak later in the season (as we did last year).

Typical early season game for me, missed tackles, handling errors, set play confusion and defensive line like a dogs leg at time. I have no worries whatsoever it will all come good.

Come On Dixon - Harsh indeed - Would like to see you heap praise when we do turn it on.   Do you read the Obituaries in the paper before you get up in the morning?  Our last 7 matches in SL have thrown up 6 superb performances and then tonights.  Be more positive please.

When you look at what Wigan did to Wakefield then compare that to what ZkR did to Wigan it gives some insight into our performance

KR play Oz rugby…close hard tackling ( with the line near or offside a lot of the time but non given and slowing down the ptb) but solid, 5 runs and a punt. Of course they’ve got a guy who can hammer the ball. They also seemed to run a lot at Ackers and Croft

We of course play open rugby, and would probably have won if the Ackers break was backed or the odd fumble didn’t happen. But KR play the percentage Oz game, pressure all thro the match til our dam broke. They stifled Wigan but Wakefield stood off, which was the difference.

I don’t think we respected them as we should, we should have played positional pressure RL for 15 min in the second half but it’s a learning curve and perhaps our defence has to be a bit faster and tougher and we have to earn our right to win by playing a bit more for field position as we did against Leigh

Warrington will be interesting as it looks to be their year😉

Looking at it again, I don’t think the ref was strong enough with their line or their ptb play.

There's definitely been inconsistency in the games I've watched this year. Not just between games but from the red in the same game. PTB infringements and offsides are the most obvious. And I must have missed the law changed that says forward passes are oka... Sky commentators never mention them now, at least on channel four they pointed out where they thought forward passes weren't given.

What's really annoying me is how they still haven't stamped down on every player on every team being offside on their goal line. Show me one player who has both feet on the line... not only that but the defensive players around the PTB are neither square or onside. The worst though has to be scrums. They are embarrassing. Just hold the ball with your foot and you are all but guaranteed a penalty for offside. The refs never have them pack properly and the second rowers have a huge gap between them and the loose forward inside binding in any way, on either side. "Get in, bind" is totally ignored. They are practically always uncontested (I'm not against this as I think they are dangerous) so just get rid of them. If they are being kept, at least make the payers pack properly.