Liverpool Rover

If it was going to be a success we would still have it now. In Australia people may be able to put their club loyalties aside for those three nights when State Of Origin is on but over here Yorkshire vs Lancashire will always be very much second to clubs.

With the way that rights work it probably won’t be as easy as simply just adding Super League to its channel.

That first half was so unrovers like defensively though the second half was better. The attack was poor and never really looked like scoring for most of the game. At least we have two home games coming up so there should be an improvement.

The scheduling is something that needs to be sorted out for next year as always having two or three games starting at the same time defeats the purpose of having every game being broadcast live, but suppose clubs have their preferred times for home games and don’t want to give them up.

Rovers have a strong squad and being one of the best defensive sides in the league means we will always be in with a chance if the attack does well. I think we can go there and win but it will be very tight.

Huddersfield will be buoyed by last week and I fancy them to snatch a win here.

In this country I feel it gets overlooked with the “sport is all about results on the field”.

I think that is why fandom forms a big part of it.

The number 6 shirt was retired at Hull KR after Roger Millwards passing.

I've seen the Namo tackle several times and still can't see what he did wrong. He went for the hip area, didn't fall on Isas legs and didn't seem to me to trap Isas foot under him. It's something that you see every game every week.

If you don't have 5 6 and 7 It is highly unlikely you will have 1 2 3 and 4 which means you won't have 8. This is why how a club performs off field is just as important as what happens on it, maybe even more so.

For all the territory Leigh had in the first half Rovers defence mainly stood firm but once Rovers got into the game in the second half they were the better team. Even without the players Leigh were missing I thought it was still a strong enough team that they had out.

King has mainly been starting on the bench this year.

Rovers and Leigh have backers that were willing to put big money into their clubs, not many other non SL clubs have those kinds of investors. It wasn’t licensing that caused Bradford and Crusaders to demise, it was coincidental that it happened during licensing.

This will be the closest of the QFs but Saints at home against a weakened team will be tough to beat so Saints will get a close win.

Caught up with the game tonight. The quality dipped in the second half but it was still an entertaining game with both teams having to work hard to get a win. I thought Catalans would miss Abdulls kicking in a tight game like this but it wasn’t the case.

This country is obsessed with football. The EFL Championship is probably one of the best attended leagues in Europe and with the amount of money in the game there are a lot of EFL clubs who can be promoted to the Premier League and do well, so maybe in football P&R isn’t broken. However in both codes of rugby it is different. The RFL and RFU championship equivalent league in football would be well down their pyramid. Before starting this post I had a look at some of the RFU championship grounds and a lot of them are woeful for what is meant to be their second tier and will no way support a fully pro premiership team. Rugby League has a wide disparity of clubs condensed in to three levels that in football would be spread through ten so while League 1 clubs are only two tiers below Super League in reality they are miles away. P&R works in football as it has a strong pyramid to support it, RLs pyramid is too weak.

I won't be watching any live as I will be at work so I will be watching the Hull derby when I get back home.

The Sydney suburban clubs playing a full suburban grounds look a lot better than playing in front of 10-15k at ANZ Stadium.

The defence has been good but against a team with Warringtons firepower the attack is definitely going to need an improvement but I think it will be a very narrow home win.

The only club I could find that offered any kind of official club trip to Perpignan was Leeds. It's baffling to me that no other club seems to offer fan or corporate club trips to try and bring in some money to reduce the costs of teams travelling over, but then realised that it probably requires too much forward thinking for English Rugby League clubs.

If the NRL buys the RFL wouldn't they be taking on the legal action claims as well?

I think it would be better if we followed Union with the referee going to the video referee and asking if there is any reason why a try shouldn't be awarded?

Penrith should have been out of sight with how difficult Wigan were finding it to contain them and the amount of times they were in Wigans 20 while Wigan could only get into Penriths half on the back of penalties, although to their credit they took their chances. I can only guess that the in goal areas were probably shallower than what they would be used to in Australia which is why they decided not to use grubber kicks when they might have done. Wigan still had to defend what Penrith were throwing at them so credit to them. Penrith can feel hard done to though by the Wardle try and the ball steal penalty though.

Another win off the back of a great defensive display and there is still plenty of improvement in attack, get that right and along with the defence we will take some beating. Whitbread is proving to be a good signing though we are missing Abdull IMO, not just for his goal kicking but he was the one who led the team around the field and I still think Evalds should be the full back with his pace from deep. Under the new guidelines the Donaldson high tackle should have been a red.