Hull KR coach Craig Sandercock hails Alex Brown hat-trick

“KY EDDY

Are you going for the world record of having the most user names on any internet forum in the world ?”

“Dobson and Rovers are top of the goal scoring charts so it can't be that shabby.........”

“Aww Dr Spock.... After the Insults YOU and your fellow FC fans threw at the Allams is there any wonder I really hope FC lose every single game ? Even more so now we all know how FC have been sponging off the Allams ... Well pleased the Rovers are above Hull S FC.”

“For me the most pleasing performance on Saturday was that of Keal Carlile. As Slammer said, he had a quiet spell in the second half but overall he looked very competent and didn't lack the confidence to scoot himself from dummy half when half a chance presented itself.

Brown obviously took the headlines and he took his tries well, but I was most impressed by the number of carries he made coming out of our own end. He didn't hesitate in coming to look for work. When other wingers make carries during exit sets it is more or less and "easy tackle" for the middle defenders as wingers don't run as hard and they just look to find their front as quickly as posible but Brown probably runs with the same weight and power as a fair few props. I can imagine that this is a real pain for defenders as he has the pace of a winger to go with it.

Burns isn't at his very best yet and quite understandably, however his presence alone is stopping teams from numbering up as much on Dobson which has obvious benefits. His short pass to Patterson for his try was very much akin to one of the many tries that Galea benefited from in previous years. I can see Patterson going over for similar scores a lot this year.

Overall a very pleasing performace. Can't argue with a 92% completion rate. A low penalty count was great to see as well. Conceding 22 points against London could be cause for a minor concern, however some form of fight back was inevitable after the first 40 that Rovers produced as it's very difficult to keep that level of play up. The difference this week though was that London had to claw their way to the line for all but one try and Rovers had the steel to stem the tide. Now that they know how to do that as a team, we could hopefully see a more stubborn defense on a regular basis.

Baring in mind the injuries that Warrington had, I think that Bradford, especially with Sammut firing the way he is, will pose the biggest attacking threat that Rovers will have faced so far this year. Should be very interesting...”

“Where is Eddy today? Pretending to be in France because Hull are below Rovers in the table?”

“swannyred, yes Paterson is a goal kicker. I'm not too concerned about Dobbo's falling strike rate but I know it will be bothering him. He will sort it out but if not there's Hally, Paterson and Burns to fall back on.”

“A good win, but one area of concern for me is the low conversion rate of goal kicks. Most teams now seem to be getting a good percentage of touchline conversions, but ours is quite low. On Saturday 5 from 9 kicks is not great, and in tight games we will lose out. Two seasons ago Dobson would probably have salvaged something from the Salford game, and is not on good kicking form at the moment. Many teams have 2 or 3 competent kickers,so apart from Hall, do we have anyone else? Can Paterson kick goals?”

“eddydunes ...still above you .. observation Holmes how good is that , what a clever chap HCFCscarb fingers crossed the FC Spongers end up getting thrashed every game they play" what a childish post, get a life you cretin.”

“by drspock
Sunday, March 10 2013, 8:44PM
..but with them having the worse defense in the top ten maybe its not...

Still above you...and yes, our opening games the defense has been dodgy but our last 2 conceeded 34, the dullers 36. Oh and did i mention we're still above you.”

“well done the Rovers.

fingers crossed the FC Spongers end up getting thrashed every game they play”