Fc better on the night, bit disapointed but showed some spirit & did not give up. At least no contentious referee descisions. 1 game each & one more to come.

Yep only one team in it to be fair. Bit like Easter lol

They usually do. The best side winning, I mean.



When we won 5 from 6 in 2008 and 2009, we were halfway decent and Hull were plop. When they picked up a bit under Gentle and we were relying on potential and erratic talent, they had the better of the derbies. This season they've gone with form again, pretty clearly.



The 'out-enthused', 'they just wanted it more', 'derbies rarely go to form' stuff ismore often about trying to make it feel more of an aberration, and that [ireally[/i your defeated team is still the best of the two.

Right now we aren't, but we get another go later in the season, and we need to start picking up some wins between now and then.



Hopefully we'll have a couple of bodies back for Cas and Widnes - those are really pivotal games for Rovers.

Deserved win for the dark side. They totally outplayed and outmuscled us save for the 15 minute purple patch midway through the second half. We never looked like winning as they had the desire and intensity from the start.



The ruck area was a real issue and Ben Cockayne's errors were costly. Looks ominous for the remaining games unless we can get Shaun Lunt and some of the big guys back soon.

Hull played well, we didn't, no excuses.

To be honest i do not think they would have beat us with our best starting 17 but if they did it would have been close we did not have a front row at all, but i was pleased to see they did not give up not like the team of old, please get bodies back has soon has possible

Obviously with everybody fit, we'd have a better front row, by extension a stronger bench, more options in the backrow and a more natural looking 1-7.



But Hull do have a very strong pack. Our weakness in that area may have exaggerated it, but even when they were struggling they made metres and just lacked a cutting edge. Even when we beat them pretty comfortably at the KC, I vaguely recall Radford saying they made more metres. Plus they've mostly been pretty good in defence. Chuck in a bit of confidence and a bit more fluency in attack, and right now, on form, they're top 6 quality.

They'll do well to finish that high, because of their slow start - but if they carry on like this, avoiding too many injuries, it's not that unlikely.



Equally, the wheels might come off again. We know all about slow starts, picking up form mid season, then things petering out disappointingly from Sandercock's time in charge. We've compressed all of that in to half a season so far!

Metres yesterday:

Hull: 1540

Rovers: 1101



Easter:

Hull: 1464

Rovers: 1362

Who won the scrap that broke out amongst the KR fans?

Won't have been us, we lost every battle yesterday.

Our season average metres is 1190 per game. On average, the opposition gain 1406. We have even managed 2 wins in spite of conceding more metres. In the long run though, we can't concede so much yardage and expect to succeed.

Do you mean the one that started with the tanked up Hull fan throwing a bottle into a woman's face?