Re: That London : Fri Feb 15, 2019 10:52 pm  

We may not have been far off last week but Wire certainly were. Could they have stepped up if necessary? It was a pumped up Rovers vs a flat Warrington and we still lose by a good margin that is what disappointed me.

If (say) Wakefield or London had done the same how impressed would anyone have been?

It is very early days I am not writing Rovers off by any means but the last gasp win against Hull puts a veneer on things and we could so easily be 0/2 with alarm bells ringing.

I expect a very tough encounter against London I don't think we will be able to snuff them out like Salford did. We should be able to win the game though and hopefully build up a bit of fluency before we meet the Red Devils ourselves. That game will be the acid test if we really are very close to where we need to be we won't have to worry but for me we must improve a fair bit yet.

Re: That London : Sat Feb 16, 2019 9:44 am  

To be fair we have 6 new players that need to gel so were not quite the finished article yet (hopefully)
What bugs me though is that year after year we seem to miss more tackles and drop off more tackles than other clubs, we never seem to improve in that area. We all know the team can score points and we scramble in defence well but the amount of missed/dropped off tackles will always hurt us.



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Re: That London : Sat Feb 16, 2019 12:42 pm  

We made Warrington look off because of good pressure and asserting ourselves in to the game well. Even some of their own 'fair minded' fans will acknowledge this.

Re: That London : Sat Feb 16, 2019 1:57 pm  

moxi1 wrote:

We made Warrington look off because of good pressure and asserting ourselves in to the game well. Even some of their own 'fair minded' fans will acknowledge this.

To be fair when one of the 'little' teams plays well against or beats one of the 'big' teams its because the 'big' team had an off day and never because the 'little' team played well.


Well thats what the experts always say anyway haha.

Re: That London : Sat Feb 16, 2019 6:30 pm  

bishops finger wrote:

To be fair when one of the 'little' teams plays well against or beats one of the 'big' teams its because the 'big' team had an off day and never because the 'little' team played well.


Well thats what the experts always say anyway haha.

Spot on.

Re: That London : Sun Feb 17, 2019 6:33 pm  

A wins a win I suppose scoring early didn’t seem to do us any favours because we were crap for the rest of the half Cunningham outplayed Drinkwater Atkin should be in the halves and I thought Dagger went well Masoe is becoming a luxury we can’t afford Garbutt went well again need a big improvement next week but I don’t want to take anything away from London who I think will be a lot better than people were predicting pre season

Re: That London : Sun Feb 17, 2019 6:40 pm  

Straightforward enough with the game comfortably put to bed by three quarter time. With Salford demoralised we go 3 from 4 into March. And although we have four games out of five away next month we should be building nicely as most are against teams we should be beating. What a signing Garbutt is proving. Hats off to getting him on board.

Re: That London : Sun Feb 17, 2019 6:49 pm  

Zook Ema's Hose wrote:

Straightforward enough with the game comfortably put to bed by three quarter time. With Salford demoralised we go 3 from 4 into March. And although we have four games out of five away next month we should be building nicely as most are against teams we should be beating. What a signing Garbutt is proving. Hats off to getting him on board.

I bet the Leeds fans are not happy we have garbutt hope he stays fit great player

Re: That London : Sun Feb 17, 2019 7:32 pm  

Really poor attitude from the players today, it looked like they'd gone out with an its only London attitude, but this side isnt good enough to be like that.
I said in an earlier post about us missing tackles and dropping off them, i bet were close to 40 missed tackles today.
Great to get the 2 points but a massive step up in effort needed.

Fair play to the London fans that came, made a lot of noise

Re: That London : Sun Feb 17, 2019 7:55 pm  

First half really looked like a relegation battle we were dire and London should have been further in front. Had they gone for goal when they had the opportunity they would have been but half time 4-6 definitely flattered Rovers.

Opening 20 minutes or so of the second half Rovers looked like a different team. Defence - we decided not to let London run the first 10 meters unopposed as we had done in the first half and there was more energy on attack. Suddenly it was one way traffic and Mitch Garbutt produced 2 superb finishes Craig Hall got another after good work from Vaivai.

22-6 after a quality spell of rugby and Rovers decided they had done enough for the afternoon. Cue firmly in place on the rack London got another after excellent work from Abdull and Rovers seemed happy enough to see out the game at 22-12.

London will be relegated I have no doubt, things will only get more difficult as the season goes on. Rovers sit in a play off spot which may well produce optimism to match that of the 28-14 defeat at Warrington.

Rovers really DID play well for about 20 minutes today and we won the game . The fixture list has been kind for the opening weeks and we seem to be getting the breaks we haven't done in recent seasons. We are nowhere near where we need to be IMO but with 2 wins from 3 and a home game v Salford next week, yes I would have settled for that.