Disappointing. Not so much the result, which ended roughly how most thought it would, but thought our performance was below par, we made it far to easy for them and once they scored the outcome became inevitable.

There was a massive difference in our performance when Herman and Knight were off, but even with those two on we were still unable to ask many questions of their defence. The little scoring spree was really a case of too little way too late. Whoever beats rovers this year will have to match their physicality for eighty minutes and we didn't this afternoon, hence the result.


Think we need to be positive and view afternoons like this in the wider perspective. We've taken great strides so far this year from the depths of 2024 and if we can learn from defeat then we are still progressing.
Dust ourselves down, pick ourselves up and go again next Saturday against Wire. I'm still enjoying watching this team dig in and have a go even if we fall short as we did today.


As for our dear neighbours; they look the finished article even though they weren't fully at their best today. Their appointments and recruitment over the past three years will most likely bear fruit at some point this year. Think it will be a surprise if they don't win at least one of the major pots in the coming months. Hard work will always reap dividends and we have to follow the same path if we wish to be back challenging again at the top. 

I thought we did ok and it's where we are at, we aren't nowhere near ready yet but we are showing plenty of grit but still need to cut the errors out, think if we'd have scored at 0.0 things might have been slightly different but still encouraging times ahead for me. 

A couple of key turning points were rovers scoring off that god awful kick for their 2nd try and then us failing to score off the pryce break on half time.  If they don't score there or we score off the break I think it's a different game but these small margins are what win and lose games.  rovers were much better at exploiting them than us

There's a good after match press conference with JC on the club youtube feed.  The big man is clearly disappointed but honest, both of which are good for me.  We're not a million miles away and if we can get everyone on the filed for a few weeks I think we're a match for most in the comp.  Very encouraging as we're miles ahead of where I thought we'd be but maybe a reflection on how poor the standard is in the comp overall

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Where can I find the game/ player stats for the ccq?