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Re: challenge cup draw : Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:37 pm  

teddypicker wrote:

Good to get then win, no doubt a big boost on and off the field.

Doesn't mean a great deal though, bigger tests to come. We're a much bigger team than Leigh.

Bring on the 8's.

Do you mean our the players look bigger than theirs or that we are a bigger club?

I like the poetical reference in your location, by the way. The bard of Salford's finest.

Re: challenge cup draw : Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:42 pm  

Well played Hull KR....fully deserved. Not bothered about the cup, but just wanted to see us win an actual game. At least you have 'pace' in your backs, unlike us !

Re: challenge cup draw : Sat Apr 22, 2017 5:22 pm  

Well, that was fun. Not something we've able to to say often lately, and not often I've come away from a game hoarse recently.

I think teddypicker can only mean we're (open to debate) a bigger club as Leigh were noticeably bigger physically.

We had a game plan today and executed. There's still things to work on but we put in an eighty minute performance. Leigh look to be massively lacking confidence and belief, they're body language was awful at times.

Great to see Shaw in clear air, the lad has pace, I've no idea where he came from for his second try. Josh Johnson looks a player, made great yards and Jordan Abdul had his best game that I've seen him play in a Rovers shirt, really put in a proper half backs display of game management in that second half.

Big defensive effort from the whole team in defending five back to back sets in the second half.

More please Tim and Rovers.

Re: challenge cup draw : Sat Apr 22, 2017 6:34 pm  

Just got in, splendid afternoon over at the LSV. That was a good performance from us but I'm assuming Leigh have played much better than that as they were pretty shocking.

Still a lot to work on but as a calibration exercise, we came out of it pretty well. Great atmosphere in our end too.

Re: challenge cup draw : Sat Apr 22, 2017 6:37 pm  

very good performance full of character and passion, young guns lawler, mulhern, greenwood , special praise, along with the ever improving Heffernan,if we can repeat this in the eights a good chance of promotion

Re: challenge cup draw : Sat Apr 22, 2017 7:31 pm  

What a great afternoon in the sunshine, that was possible the best game I've seen Abdul play this season and Johnson definitely deserved to be mensioned in dispatches.

Did Leigh stop counting spectator's at 2:30pm ? three and half thousand ?

Re: challenge cup draw : Sat Apr 22, 2017 7:48 pm  

Well played guys - a thoroughly deserved victory. We seem totally incapable of exerting any pressure inside our opponents' 20 metre area - scores of 6; 10; and 10, in our last three games tells a story - and certainly isn't going to win many SL games. Hopefully, our confidence will come back before the middle 8's, because we haven't seen the last of KR this season!

Also, a huge well done to your travelling army, who attended in large numbers, and got well behind your team. As for the attendance - well if you guys brought about 2,000, surely we provided more than 1,800?! (Mind you, that attendance was announced about 10 minutes from the end, when a good few of our fans had done the 'walk' more commonly associated with our neighbours from across the borough of W***n!! )

Re: challenge cup draw : Sat Apr 22, 2017 8:05 pm  

I thought we'd get out muscled in the forwards but we didn't Johnson and Mulhearn were excellent Blair ran himself into the ground and Abdul was very good and apart from a couple of brain farts we controlled the game it doesn't make any difference to what will happen come the middle 8s but it's nice to beat a SL side with a few out injured

Re: challenge cup draw : Sat Apr 22, 2017 8:24 pm  

Just need Jake Webster first try tomorrow and a really good weekend

Re: challenge cup draw : Sat Apr 22, 2017 9:19 pm  

Abdul, Lawler and Heffernan stood out for me. Johnson put a lot of effort in but does almost always end up on his back. He dropped the ball twice today too. Looks a decent player if he cuts the errors out.
Mention for Salter who defended very well.
Quinlan needs to get more of the ball. He creates something almost every time he gets it.
Great effort defensively. Lunt led the side well and Abdul ran the game. Where did that kicking game come from?
Good atmosphere. Shame it's not like that at home.
Anyone but Wigan or Leeds in the next round. The sharks in the next round would be fun. Nothing to lose for us if we did get them.