Andrew Vause

Can anyone tell me when I mentioned this last week about rumours of Connor going to Cas that my post was taken down? I have excellent sources and never post unfounded rumours, it was hardly inflammatory either. Isn't the Featherstone Rovers Rugby Forum about discussing Rugby issues? Disgraceful. I've been a member since 06. That's me done now on here. I hope the 3 remaining people enjoy the rest of the season.

Rumoured to have signed for HKR next season, and to be warming up for SL by moving to Cas short term.

I should have qualified "in a league fixture." I think the defeats you quite rightly alluded to were Challenge Cup and other miscellaneous tin pot cup games.

aye, right enough.

To be fair, I think the team was garbage last year also, not quite to this year's vintage but still poor. Donny at home, Sheffield both times, Swinton both times and losing at home to York for the first time in 60 odd years were particular low lights. Just thinking about the players that have been at Rovers now since 2023 (I know they didn't all play v Bradford) Brad Day, Caleb Aekins, Connor Jones, Gareth Gale, Josh Hardcastle and Gadwin Springer. And from last year; Ben Reynolds, Connor Wynne, Louix Gorman*, Connor Barley* Danny Addy, Maddox Jeffrey, Jimmy Beckett.

9 years ago v Leeds in the Super 8s. 6-62 ish.

I don't quite think you know had bad we are this year Roger, but thank you for your optimism. 2005 feel.

His passing is awful.

Don't reply the W and what keeps a ship stationary.

At least we only have Bradford next week.

Who you thinking of in particular. Reynolds? 3 months, Springer dunno. Had Ford still been in charge would you have afforded the same response?

There's a smell of 2005 in the air this year.

Some fan early on saying that people are whinging, so I'll try to 'whinge' objectively. Whilst I wasn't Ford's greatest fan, what he did at York proves that he can coach a successful team. Cooke deserves a chance before we all make a judgement But onto yesterday. It was tripe. Both teams were tripe btw, not just Rovers although our Tripe stank the room out more than theirs. I started this season,undoubtedly like many others with a fair degree of optimism, yes there isn't much to play for but I assumed that we would be in with a good chance of challenging for top 3 and surpassing last season's offerings, that were some of the most disappointing since pre Daryl Powell (Bastian not withstanding). The people that said it was Rovers' worst performance were either not around v Whitehaven 09, or Leigh 08 or the whole of the 86/87 season, I could go on. Yesterday though wasn't pretty. We've been spoilt down here for the majority of seasons since 2010. In most of those season it looked like we could rip the majority of teams a 'new one'. Now things are different. We scored 2 relatively close range tries yesterday, apart from that I do not remember another line break in the game. Sheffield's 3 tries were as a result of paper thin defending on the right (how I hate this next modern word) edge. We had no organisation at half back, many times we ran into blind corners. How many times can you remember us being put into touch on the first tackle on 2 separate occasions? How wise is it for a skipper to get sin binned for dissent? Yea the ref was cr@pola but they all are, they aren't the reason for our lack of spark. We play Catalans Dragons imminently (as seems the case every 2 or 3 years) in the cup, if evef there was a pointless tie, this will be it. No revenue, no chance of progression to next round and a high risk of player injury. On a positive note, the pitch looked well yesterday and it was really clean under the seats, and apart from the said aberrations for the tries, the defence looked good, although Sheffield only did the bare minimum required in attack. We got a decent ish crowd (did the usual in front of a decent crowd) again after the performance there may be a drop off for the next home game which will a tough test against Bradford. I get the 60-24 roll over days are over (they can be the most boring games) and I'd put us as clear 2nd favourites v Bradford, thus a spirited performance as a tonic to the last 2 league games would be most welcome.

Why don't you engage your brain before you throw diarrhoea down in type? Are you that ignorant to the fact his father back in France is gravely ill?

As for halves, heard that there's a very familiar name to Featherstone coming back but it's not the person that sounds like a bottle of beer with a blue star on!!