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  1. Sheffield are second favourites with the sponsors (behind Wakefield) for the Championship this season. That might reflect the lack of other credible challengers I guess, but time will tell.
  2. Both teams announced. We are missing Tanner, Yei, Bussey, Massey and Day (plus fringe players Roberts and Arnold) from our forwards as well as Lacans. Gorman plays centre, Bowes and Turner in the halves. Strong team for Wakefield with Thornley returning and ex-NRL Ky Rodwell making his debut.
  3. Comms saying that Hull KR fans chanting "you're getting sacked on the telly" is aimed at Tony Smith, but I think the main target of that is someone else...
  4. Don't think that's right? "If the player marking the tackled player at the play-the-ball dives behind the tackled player in order to drop on the ball as it is heeled, they are guilty of a voluntary tackle and should be penalised. If there is no acting half back it is permissible for a player to dive behind the tackled player and drop on the ball after it has been heeled provided that, unless tackled, they immediately regain his feet."
  5. Yep I've talked about that game on here a few times, Jeff Townend was the hero with 8 goals from 8 I think from all over the field. Clive Sullivan was one of the Hull KR players sent off for an instinctive high tackle, the only time he was ever sent off in a long and illustrious career, and it's the only time I have seen an opponent sent off that I can remember feeling bad about it.
  6. Closest I can think of in recent years is the away Challenge Cup game against London in 2016. We went three tries behind in the first 20 minutes or so and Anthony Thackeray then went off with a broken jaw., but the score was only 14-0 because they missed two conversions. We went on to win 26-48 with Ian Hardman scoring 5 tries. One of my favourite Fev games that, perhaps because there were only about a dozen or so of us supporting Fev that day (there was a big Fev Lions game on at POR the same day and the club got permission to stream the London-Fev game in the clubhouse).
  7. I thought at the time it was close, though it was hard to tell from the TV angle. I don't think there was any malice in it though.
  8. Pre-game interview with Fordy which includes a couple of injury updates too. https://www.facebook.com/FevRoversRLFC/videos/1130409634808732/?mibextid=WC7FNe&rdid=PGYmDzmCRkXp5ijw
  9. Indeed, but just as many would make the exact same comments about Aekins in terms of playing half back versus full back, and realistically it has to be one or the other for the time being.
  10. That was a ridiculously weird month all round from a Fev POV. As you say, in early April 2012 they shipped 60 points at home to Sheffield, including four interception tries for the Eagles. 4 weeks later, they again conceded 60 points at home to Halifax, losing 12-60. Between those 2 games, they beat Castleford 23-16 in one of the club's finest-ever victories, and 2 weeks later were leading Wigan at half time, both in the Challenge Cup.
  11. Indeed, I am not a fan of criticising refs and I'm certainly not doing that here, but I do think there have been different levels of interpretation of some of the new rules in the Championship games I've seen this season.
  12. I'm normally the last person to comment on this sort of thing but I hope we've done our homework on the referee this weekend. I've watched a lot of Championhip games on YouTube this year and in my opinion the younger referees such as Cameron Worsley and Liam Rush are being really zealous on the new interpretations of the rules especially around the ruck and incorrect play-the-balls. We've had regular SL referees in Jack Smith, Ben Thaler, and Scott Mikalaukas the last 4 games and I hope we can adjust because when I've seen Rush this season he has been very strict on these type of areas, and Wakefield have the advantage of having seen him at first hand when they played Barrow recently. Not a criticism of the ref, he's only applying the rules, but we need to be squeaky clean on Friday.
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