Re: Good Friday Derby: Record score for Hull KR : Sat Apr 08, 2023 2:53 am  

Keiththered wrote:

An acknowledgment at last that FC are not a big club.

Big enough to play an important role in your life. You certainly come across like these are your most important opponents. You can't stay away from their fans.you want to be with them all the time.

Re: Good Friday Derby: Record score for Hull KR : Sat Apr 08, 2023 2:59 am  

Dave K. wrote:

Let me just reiterate, I'm no way saying Smith should be sacked but he isn't untouchable and blameless like many seem to think, I get tinkering with your squad with so many players out of contract, but surley no one thinks Shaul and Evans will be kept on, so why play them? Pete says I doubt the result would have been different if Litten and Brown had played, but surley that's better for the future.

Radford did alot of damage to the club later in his tenure, losing players like Litten and Abdul by not giving them a chance for example, I hope the same doesn't happen here.

Litten and Abdul got plenty of chances under Radford. They just didn't take their chances.

Re: Good Friday Derby: Record score for Hull KR : Sat Apr 08, 2023 3:06 am  

It could have been worse. That performance could have been at Wembley in a cup final and we could have conceded an extra ten points on top.

Re: Good Friday Derby: Record score for Hull KR : Sat Apr 08, 2023 4:17 am  

giddyupoldfella wrote:

Litten and Abdul got plenty of chances under Radford. They just didn't take their chances.

That's nonsense, particularly about Litten, played 28 games and in that time I'd bet he played a token 20 minutes in most games, even if Houghton was injured he would rather play Fash or Hadley at hooker.

Abdul had some good games, never really got a good run, since then we have had Reynolds, Gale and McNamara, Abdul had more good games than the three combined.

Re: Good Friday Derby: Record score for Hull KR : Sat Apr 08, 2023 4:32 am  

giddyupoldfella wrote:

Big enough to play an important role in your life. You certainly come across like these are your most important opponents. You can't stay away from their fans.you want to be with them all the time.

Obviously FC are important as you provide the derbies and the banter. Despite what many people say derby matches are different and provide interest in the City. Our derbies are important to the City and RL in general. I want FC in SL as the competition would be poorer without you and the interest our rivalry engenders. However I am entitled to wallow in your present distress. It was good to see the hurt on the FC fans’ faces as we walked back to the car. Not that there were many of them by the time we left the ground. Sport goes around and comes around and at the moment you are on a big down. The playing staff and finances appear in a parlous state long may your suffering continue.

Re: Good Friday Derby: Record score for Hull KR : Sat Apr 08, 2023 5:15 am  

I have no issue with most Rovers fans coming on here to mock us, we would do the same, it's what sport and being rivals is about.

Although if during this spell of dominance they don't win anything it will soon be forgotten, plenty of other times in SL Rovers have been a better side, but no one remembers it, as in the end they didn't achieve anything.

Re: Good Friday Derby: Record score for Hull KR : Sat Apr 08, 2023 6:22 am  

Make no mistake about it, we are in serious trouble and i don't think this group have the fight in them to escape relegation

Re: Good Friday Derby: Record score for Hull KR : Sat Apr 08, 2023 6:31 am  

Imagine being Pearson and having to pay that bunch of feckless clowns after that performance, I wouldn't be able to look him in the eyes after collecting my pay cheque knowing I'd just not bothered doing my job. Any other career you'd be disciplined, just as this lot should be for impersonating a "professional" rugby team.

Re: Good Friday Derby: Record score for Hull KR : Sat Apr 08, 2023 7:04 am  

Yippee try yay wrote:

Imagine being Pearson and having to pay that bunch of feckless clowns after that performance, I wouldn't be able to look him in the eyes after collecting my pay cheque knowing I'd just not bothered doing my job. Any other career you'd be disciplined, just as this lot should be for impersonating a "professional" rugby team.

I want to see an awful lot of them dropped because they don't deserve to be playing. But then at the same time if we drop them it means they're getting paid a good wage to sit on their booty every weekend instead of been involved in the tough games, which this lazy bunch would probably absolutely love.
Paying them off to get rid also means they'll get a nice payout bland an early retirement, which is seems pretty clear that's what a few of them must be hoping for.
Contracts give these players too much security and comfort. No matter how much effort they put in they'll still get paid, whether they're playing first team or not.

Re: Good Friday Derby: Record score for Hull KR : Sat Apr 08, 2023 7:08 am  

giddyupoldfella wrote:

Litten and Abdul got plenty of chances under Radford. They just didn't take their chances.

They're both better players now they're out of the FC environment, wasn't Abdul's nickname at FC 'kebabdul' due his lack of fitness whilst with us?