Well York were deserved winners.  Much the better side.  Well done to them.


Thought our selections for this one were odd as were the substitutions.  Starting with Hallas at hooker always baffles me.  His service is slow and inaccurate and he's no threat out of dummy half.  OK his defence is good and we perhaps needed to cope with the initial onslaught from the York forwards.  While we pretty much did that having him there did blunt our attack somewhat so we couldn't kick on from going in front early on.


Then, subbing Donaldson and Lawrence together and bringing on Souter, Michael and Waine meant the defence wasn't as solid.   Surely you need Souter on when he can jump out of dummy half when the forwards are making ground?  He should've started IMO.   Playing when the forwards aren't dominating means his option to run isn't there.   We had no impact on the bench at all.   No offloads from Waine and Michael was well contained.   We missed the likes of Scurr, Pele and Doro.  


As I feared the dodgy left edge defence was a real issue.  From the Sheffield game onwards we've looked very soft where Gee, Gill and Meadows defend.  Clearly Applegarth saw that too.  Some of the defensive efforts there were weak.  We're paying for not recruiting well enough to cover the outside backs.   Armitage ought to be in the centres.   


Thought Logan Bayliss was sat on the bench too long.  He was our one forward that always made ground.  If he was carrying a knock he didn't play like it.   When he came back on the field the game had gone.


Despite all that we got within 8 points - though the score did flatter us a bit.  If Hooley kicks his conversions and Armitage doesn't drop that absolute sitter of a pass we're drawing the game.   York were better than us - their forwards ran and tackled harder but we're better than we showed yesterday.


Some changes required.  We need Mason back in the side.  Keyes in for Meadows - Although I don't think Meadows has been as bad as some think - he's a bit of a whipping boy - but Keyes offers more.  Armitage in the centres please for Gill.  No idea who we play on the wing but we need a change on the left.   No more Hallas at hooker pls.  

It was a real missed opportunity, we won’t ever have a better chance to appear at Wembley. 
Gill had poor efforts two of Yorks tries but he wasn’t on his own. 
Don’t want to single people out but Meadows usually defends inside Gill and that avenue has been a weak link all season.
Harris try was poor all round, we lost the collision, the opposition get a quick PTB your defence is not set and the rest is history. 
Hallas gets some stick, usually at 9 and I much prefer Souter there but Hallas has a bit of “mongrel” in him, a compliment not a slur. 
When we’re down on blockbusting props I think that’s why Nobby puts him in. 
With players to come back in,  the end of the season the team may have a different look to it

Agree about Hallas. I'm not his biggest fan, but I feel if it had been him who interchanged with Donno, our defence wouldn't have parted as easily as it did do. 

Ott needs to be the interchange hooker with Souter. As Bullseye said, in our period of dominance we weren't clinical enough.  

Yes I agree Ott has a very calm head on him in the heat of battle. 

Was hoping you guys could join us (Hull KR) at Wembley. You would have been in the Rovers end I reckon you would have brought a lot of fans and added to the occasion. As it is York have hardly sold any tickets at all in fact most of their allocation has now been made available to Rovers.


Obviously York deserved to win and I feel Bulls are still a little short in games like this. You lost the forward battle maybe Scurr would have helped and the surprise departure of Pele was a blow. At Hull KR we waited years and years to get back to Super League and some of your performances remind me of ourselves when we were close but not close enough.


I do believe you will get there but surely not with Brian Noble. You can't turn the clock back and for me it was a mistake to appoint him especially when Craig Lingard was available.


Whatever. Good luck for the rest of the season. Bradford born and former Bull Elliott Minchella will be captaining Rovers at Wembley I really hope to see him lifting the trophy maybe you do too.