Brigg Rover

I was extremely confident going into the CC game as Hull had not really been in a game of the intensity that we could bring. Now they have, and after that they have gone on and played well against Warrington. Whilst we have lost to Wigan. This game will be a lot closer I think and it would not surprise me if Hull manage to pull off a win. If this game was played 5 times think we win 3 and Hull win 2. Hopefully this will be one of the 3!

We played a friendly against Bradford a few years back and Leon Pryce's brother played 7 that day. Karl i think his name was, we all said he has to be the biggest guy we have ever seen put a 7 jumper on!

Outside of North America please name me a sport where teams are making a profit and growing? The last interview I saw from one of the Football financial experts was that every single team in the Premier League is losing money! What is your solution to the so called problems we have? If everything is going wrong and the sport is dying and will be dead in 20 years, what is your solution? I am sure everyone here would love to know what we should be doing to save ourselves.

Salford are as a team are the perfect example of a team greater than the sum of its parts. Well coached with a good number 7. That said we are at home, playing full of confidence with a pretty much fully fit squad. The most pleasing thing for me has been our defense. 1 try a game conceded in each of the last 4 games. I think Salford will need to score 3 or 4 trys at least to beat us, and at the moment if we turn up totally on it I don't think they can.

As a Rovers fan I am happy with the signing. The behind the scenes benefits in training with standards setting for the young players he will be invaluable. If you listen to Roosters players he is the club leader in training, that is what we are buying. If you think his coach doesn't know exactly what he is going to get from JWH and is still happy to put him out there, you are mistaken. His coach wants him to play exactly the way he does. Sometimes it goes wrong but the good far outweighs that.

And despite this terrible record the Roosters have kept selecting him every week he is available. Guess you guys know far more than Trent Robinson.

To be fair it would be difficult not to be alright at the moment with us top of the league and your lot bottom! Apart from the weekend though were the game was totally spoilt to the point were we were walking out of Elland Road as the hooter went. Pretty much missed the last 15 mins of the game in fact the only thing I saw of the Evalds try was him putting the ball down, didn't even know we were back in their half! The daft part of it all was when we went to Cas a few weeks ago there was no trouble at all! Guess because it was a Thursday night they muppets hadn't been on the ale all day.

Yes their fans did cause trouble at the 91-92 Challenge Cup semi at Headingley against Hull FC.

No it wasn't Football fans it was Cas fans. A group of about 50 to 75 turned up with about 20 minutes of the Rovers game left. Clearly been on the ale, which is no problem. Signing and chanting, again no problem, but then it the problems started when some of them started standing on seats and banging the roof and the back of the stand. The stewards all cleared off, very helpful! They then started goading the Rovers fans and trying to start trouble. Within 10 minutes of them arriving it all kicked off. There were a number of kids in the area where the Cas fans had gone, these were the kids who had been on the pitch at the start of the game holding the big Rovers flag they have on display. We then had parents trying to get to their kids to get them out of the way and it all just went completely peared shaped. After another 5 minutes the police and stewards finally turned back up to deal with it. Complete shambles totally ruined the day for a great many people.

Must admit was a bit gutted when I saw he was out. He is a bit of a turnstyle in defense.

It is often very difficult for the lower sides to back up after a big effort like Cas did last week against Wigan. If Rovers come out hard and keep the intensity up for the first 25 mins and don't give away penalties or drop ball then they should have the firepower to come through this by 20 points.

No idea. 100% he would have been off in the NRL. As soon as someone starts staggering they are off.

It doesn't answer your question but why would anyone want 10,000 fans in a stadium that holds 25,000? The atmosphere is not the same as 10,000 in a ground near capacity. Plus by moving into the MKM we would be losing so much revenue. Massive share of gates receipts to the stadium management. Can't host events that we can benefit from. No chance to develop your own identity. It just does not work in RL. You need massive TV income to be able to share a ground like that. RL clubs rely on gate receipts for a large proportion of their income. You need to be able to control your own destiny. To your actual question, there have been times when Rovers have averaged more than FC, but it was a long time ago think late 60's was the last time. I have to say though that it is possible over the next 10 years if Rovers can maintain their trajectory of growth and can gradually increase the capacity of CP. I have never seen so many young teenage fans, boys and girls, than I do at Rovers now. I think this could carry on thus growing the club. If FC continue to struggle you may see some drop off in their support.

Saints were a lot less threatening after Welsby took that head knock when he tried to tackle Broadbent when he score late in the 1st half. Not sure if it showed it on TV but he was down for about a minute after the try, then he got up and staggered backwards 3 steps. How the physio who was with him didn't take him off for an assessment I will never know. If you then watch the rest of the game every kick he caught he then passed it to someone else to take it up. His involvement in the play overall dropped off and he was a lot less effective. Before that he looked like he could rip us apart every time he got the ball. Saints may want to try looking after the man who is head and shoulders the best player in their team a bit more. On Rovers, we are playing well. We now need to back that up with a strong away performance. We also owe Warrington one from the game at our place. Hopefully Hiku will continue to improve his defense in the centres and stop backing off players close to our line.

That would be great as far as I'm concerned. The guy is the biggest loser in RL! All the great teams he has had and coached and the amount of trophies won is ......................... None! The guy could be 50 nil up at half time in a cup final with the oppostion down to 11 men, and I would still back him to find a way to lose.