Firstly, credit to Cas for a deserved win. From what I've seen of them in 2025 that looked like one of their best performances of the year so far, so well done to them.


As for us! We didn't look right straight from the kick-off. As someone else said earlier you can usually tell with us what kind of a night it's going to be in the first ten minutes and so it proved tonight. We looked disjointed in attack and vulnerable in defence wide out. We never really got going and the little flurry at the end was simply too little too late stuff.


Think tonight showed how crucial Asiata is to this side. We got away with his absence in France but not tonight. We created little and at times played panic football as the game slowly slipped away from us. I personally don't have too much of a problem with their work rate but too many players had bad nights for the result to end any differently. We don't have the individual quality to dig ourselves out of a hole when it's not going well, we literally either win as a team or we lose as one as tonight.


If we're looking for some positives out of games like this, then it's that this is part of the learning curve and rebuilding process we are currently going through. Unfortunately nights like tonight will come up on the route, think the key is not to get too despondent when we lose and try not to get too over excited when we win, not easy with us lot!!!!


I wonder if this side struggles with going into games as favourites? The two dispiriting performances this year have come in games when we've been expected to win. Maybe being the underdog suits them, they don't feel the pressure so much and subsequently don't clam up like tonight.


A disappointing night unquestionably, but there's thirteen rounds still to play, suspect there will be a few ups and downs over the next three months, it is the Fc rollercoaster after all. I see the usual suspects have already pronounced us dead and buried. Maybe they'll be right, but I wouldn't start dancing on our grave just yet. Hang on in there everyone!! 

Fair summary.

2 poor teams but you looked far more organised than us and thoroughly deserved the win.


We look so nervous playing at home and didn’t appear to show the same desire to defend our line that we showed at Catalan?

Don't you go to derby games? Rovers have won the Clive Sullivan trophy year after year for ages now.

Rovers trophy cabinet;

Challenge Cup, Clive Sullivan Trophy, Roger Millward Trophy, Man of Steel Trophy, Coach of the Year Trophy. What you got in yours?

You forgot the one for having the neediest supporters in Super League.

Surely the mos and coach of the year are individual awards, not club ones? 

Well done for ending the 40 year drought. Glad you got to see it before you popped your cloggs bob.

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