ALI G
I met" Shirts" and "Are you " in the Empress and the ot
her members of the Village People FET ,Eddie and Hitler were already in the Tigers Lair along with Belo !FET and Eddie that went into their Kray Twins pose and posed for a pic ! We then posed for 
our yearly Derby Day picture "Are You " always the shy one took the pic as we stood outside the Lair ,FET went for his Sunday Vicar pose and i went kinda faint and held onto his arm ,it must of been because i had not eat
en any quiche ! Eddie just looked his normal daft self ,Hitler cracked his face and Shirts looked like a nice boy ! Anyway i took my place in the West Stand upper and looked at the East Stand hordes who packed out the North Stand . Vella was injured and Scott Wheeldon took his place in the team . Vella was a big loss to the Rovers pack and we looked a little jaded or tired i don't know but Rovers pack were not really firing against a fired up FC pack ,to be fair i thought Rovers backs were superb and Charnley the Wigan youngster will never forget his first ever Derby try scoring appearance in a hurry .
This was one of the most ferocious Derby's i have ever been to ,we had some biff as both teams went hammer n tong to gain the upper hand .Clint Newton did his Phil Lowe impression as he ran the ball in like only a 2nd Rower of his quality can do ,wonderful stuff . Shaun Briscoe was back on his old stomping ground and promptly nearly gave us all heart failure when he ran into Latus when they both went for an high ball ,why don't they call for it ? Then Briscoe got smashed when he put his head were he can only put it and got it all wrong and i feared for him it was brutal ! All credit to him for gett
ing up and carrying on . Anyway i noticed forum member Fuzzy up in the West stand so i took his picture ! Benny C let us all know he was on the pitch having a fight with Balsawood the FC winger fighting like a girl ,and all credit to Jason Neth for giving him a smack ! Having watched the brawl i must say the FC players were pathetic with their shirt pulling and holding Rovers players down whilst their team mates got stuck in .The FC fans sang to "she fell over " to Clint and then Benny C the treatment with another ditty of " your supposed to be in jail " so original when Raynors making pillow cases somewhere in a jail in England ! You know what i cant stand this club we have in the West of our city i hate everything it and their fans stand for, i detest them ! Phoneys the lot of them and the abuse they hurled at the Rovers fans as they left the West Stand upper was shocking !
We nearly shut them up with a minute left on the clock but it wasn't to be i came away a little disappointed but very proud of the teams effort to try and win the game they did us proud !
So bring on the Bulls ,enjoy the pics this is Alistair Gee for RALLYROUNDTHEROBINS.COM 10-5 Over n out !
An outstanding team effort and i take my hat off to every player that played in this game , Vellas,Watts and Billy Joel battered the Leeds pack leaving Dobson to pull the strings to unlock the Leeds defence and Leeds just crumbled before our very eyes ! The East Stand was rocking and sang their hearts out to inspire the team and a young rookie centre Charnley from Wigan was soon having his name chanted to him ,this confused Ben Cockayne and he waved back to the East Stand thinking they were singing Charlie ,charlie when infact they were chanting Charnley ,Charnley !
Leeds did their warm up and they were looking a lttle worried , Maguire and Sinfield got some stick from the Wellers . 
njoyed the game and talked about his days at Rovers and i told Jon how i remembered him flattening the York centre Fatti Sinni from NZ in front of the East Stand in an NL1 leage game and funnily enough Jon remembered that tackle and said " yerr i remember him ,big bloke i put him on his ass ! " CLASS !
The Rovers team came off and Ben Galea sniffed his arm pit before going back down the tunnel and you got the feeling Rovers were gonna be smelling of Roses at the end of the match .
Josh Hodgsons fan club was waiting near the tunnel and he gave them all a big high five ,this really annoyed FET as he was too late to join in with the high fives with Josh !
Even Scooby Doo was in the Well tonight .
Back to the game ,well what can you say ? nobody saw that result coming did they ,what an effort to put a shift in like that to take the spoils with a patched up team against the mighty Whinos ,lets hope Rovers can take this form into the Derby at the home of the Tigers ,enjoy the pics this is Alistaire Gee for Rallyroundtherobins.com 10-5 over n out !
Gee 
The Wakey fans were well impressed withour T.Shirts and FET ,Mr.ED and Eddie went for the Resevoir Dogs pose as they walked towards the ground .
Just look at Adolphs face he puts the fear of God into me does that bloke !
We took our place behind the sticks with the Rovers hordes who again helped put a few bob in the home teams coffers and the game begun ,was Cookey to have one of them games when he turned it on or was he going to have a Mare ?
Well he had a nightmare nothing went right for him his pass to Newton was superb and Newton was off down the wing on an 85 mtre run to the line and Cookes face was a picture has he said sorry to his Wakey team mates .So often Wakey have been a bogey team to Rovers but without their little general Sam Obst they looked pretty oridinary to say the least .Coranation Streets Alec Gilroy was enjoying the game just to the left of us and Richard Slater the Rovers number 13 in our early NL1 days took time to chat with us watching both his old teams slug it out on the pitch .
I watched Cookey at the end of the game and every Rovers player shook hands with him ,thinking back on his Rovers career i thought to myself thanks for the memories Paul you saved us in 2007 and his Derby displays well we can always watch them time n time again taunting his old team mates and fans in those never to be forgotten games when Rovers broke the Scummers hearts !
We then made our way back to the car and Eddie put his Neil Diamond cd on and started singing " Love on the rocks " as for me i found time to talk to a horse i often do it around Hull its a favourite past time of mine talking to horses ! Shame i never had any quiche to give him no wonder he had a long face !
This is Ali G for Rallroundtherobins.com ,10-5 over n out !
Me i watched it from the comfort of my leather chair and annoyed our lass who kept asking me " what you got your hat on for in the house " ?. Must be why i look so angry on the pic !
Any way the BBC did a fine job of presenting the game and Morgan gave his pre match interveiw and told us how he would hope to be leading the team out at Wembley instead of sitting in a warm studio commentating on the game .The Rovers team got in a huddle in the changing rooms but it all looked a bit quite to me there was no RallyingRound to be seen and i feared the worst .The game itself well if only Billy Joel could of held onto the ball as Robinson some how got in his way to dislodge the ball and the chance was gone . Rovers had no answer to the Giants 6,7 and 9 ! Kevin Brown and Danny Brough tore Rovers apart at will and in Robinson they had a hooker who tackled anything in a red shirt that moved and had pace to eat up the yards ! Rovers on the other hand had a 6 7 and 9 I' Anson,Dobson and Murrell .
They were like lambs to the slaughter poor Chaz had a nitemare the game just passed him by totally out of his depth against the Giants ,Dobson working his nutts off on his own and the Giants closed him down effectivley closing down the Rovers team along with it .
Murrell well, as you all know this is my main gripe with the team and while Morgan insists on starting him at 9 in front of Fisher and Hodgson i will continue to stay away and watch my lawn grow on a weekend ! Kris Welham spoke to the Hull Daily Mail during the week and told us how Morgan is happy with him shooting out of the line to nail the opposistion ,well the Giants had done their home work on that one and Rovers left side of defence had more holes in it than a Tetley Tea Bag ! Clint Newton now needs a taste of a spell on the bench his contant questioning of the ref Silverwood was embarassing and he gave away far too many penalties when he should be setting the example . With Galea and Webster the only attacking threat Rovers had to offer it really was a bad day at the office for Morgan and his team .Anyway thats it from me i can smell the coffee from the kitchen !
This is Alistair Gee for Rallyroundtherobins.com 10-5 over n out !
The Quinns win away ,i noticed in that game Fisher got 80 minutes under his belt and Murrell and Clinton got a taste of sitting on the bench ,it must of woke Clinton up as the big man finally came to life against the Wire i cant knock him for that or the team either ,were the Wire weakened by the loss of Carvell and Briers that much ? It was Rovers best display of the season and i had already decided after the Derby defeat i was not going to the Wire game .After retiring from running a footy team for 10 years ,7 of them in the Hull Boys and 3 years in the Mens Sunday League i am now free to enjoy my weekends off in with no commitments to anyone .
I was quite happy to miss the Wire game and watch the lawn grow i even had a mole ,a frog and a tortoise to keep me company ! To be honest i thought Rovers were going to serve up another load of shite but they proved me wrong ,oh and the East Stand found its voice again !
How many of you were baffled by the omission of Fisher from the squad after his superb 80 mins against the Quinns ? So was Radio Humberside and when Morgan was asked why he kind of said "we thought about Fish ,but decided Murrell and Hodgson had more to offer the team today" ?? Even Charlie Mullan had a pop in the Daily Mail were Murrell was nominated for the "must do better award" . Fisher will be gone end of season he will be joining Wakefield .
Jason Netherton had a stormer, so often the unsung hero for Rovers and Watts gets better and better and both English ,and Fox was to fast for the Wolves and took a leaf out of Byron Fords book with his show boating down the wing !! So everybodys happy now that Derby defeat is just a distant memory and its all rosey in Alis garden !
Onto the Cup against the Shuddersfield giants ive seen Rovers been on the end of many a defeat against these ,this is the big one its a must win game can the Tinkerman finally get it right for this one ,ill put my kiss of death on it now ill take Rovers to win in front of the cameras but ill give this game a miss its my weekend in at work and if it wernt i wunt of gone anyway as the Rallyround Crew would only blame me if Rovers lost !
Have a safe journey ,this is a chilled out Alistair Gee reporting from his garden in Sutton ,10-5 over n out !
ad got Eddie Palace excited as she waved at me after doing her bit on the pitch with her big balloons !I was hoping Josh Hodgson would be starting at hooker with Fish on the bench ,lets face it Murrell whos been Mr .Average all season should not of started the game ! But Tinkerman Morgan knows best and decides to leave Fisher out all together as hes rested ,yes rested Fisher was'nt injured,ask him he was rested for the Quinns game and Murrell goes straight in at hooker and keeps his place in the team ?
I cant fathom this out one bit and its not just me the "Trust In Justin Brigade" can defend him all they like its the same old story ,same old s#### !
Rovers saw the return of Chaz I' anson at number 6 but the real number 6 was running amok in Wakefeild on his home debut against Cas !
We bring a forward over from Australia who just runs the ball in and never breaks a tackle or offloads and he starts every game ? Why ?
The game itself well the pick of the forwards was Jason Netherton ,Newton had a go and had the big pudding Lauaki in his pocket .Rovers matched their forwards man for man but our attack was a shambles ,with the same old boring predictable Rugby League !
Morgan should resign now he has took this club as far as he can ,surley he must of known when he got up to do his after game speech in the Bar when hardly anyone clapped him onto the stage . And on the way home to tune into Humberside and listen to him defend Murrell at hooker was laughable ,can anyone see any of this current squad making the Super League Dream Team ? The Wellers shouted their disaproval towards Chris Chester ,i felt a bit sorry for Chris hes no mug and knows what the fans want ,but its not going to happen !
So onto the Quinns game were Morgan promised some changes ,well hes cocked it up already by leaving Josh Hodgson out of the 19 altogether ! I wont be there and i wont be at the Wire home game either ill get more enjoyment watching my lawn grow then watching Rovers serve up this dross on my weekend off ! James Webster for coach asap !
This is a totally pissed off Ali G at Rallyroundtherobins.com ,who smelt the coffee months ago and saw this coming ,the Cooke saga ,Danny Brough going to Shuddersfield and them drums will be banging even louder soon in East Hull you have been warned cos Rallyroundtherobins will get to know it first !
Hope this wasnt to extreme for some ? 10-5 over n out !
I bet Cookey was pissing his pants as he sat somewere in Hull watching his old team mates make a complete set of idiots of themselves on live tv ! With the bongo drums in East Hull banging loud n clear the Monday after the Saints win ,we all knew that Cookey had played his last game for Rovers ! And why on earth the silence coming from the club carries on his beyond me ,i dont get it at all .We had the Daily Mail informing us Morgan as every faith in Scott Murrel cos he does everything at 100 mph ! Now that made me laugh that !
Then we had Jake " i think im injured again" Webster informing us "he was happy to be playing again in his natural posistion at centre " shame he didnt tell Tinkerman Morgan that earlier ?
Then Morgan refusing to talk to Radio Humberside about Cookey whilst giving an interveiw and he just sits there saying nothing at all ? Pathetic !
And a few days later Morgan tells the Daily Mail " we are the under dogs Wakefield are wounded after shipping 50 points the week before " Classic and we were at home at Fortress Craven Park ! So a 2nd half display from the mighty midget Sam Obst as he ran riot ,Rovers never laid a finger on him the entire 2nd half ! And when Huddersfield bound Danny Brough kicked ,he kicked the ball that high it had ice on it ,infact Obst n Brough kicked Rovers to death they had a simple game plan and every player in their team just rolled up their sleeves and got on with it ,their forwards were dominant and bullied our liteweight pack !
Rovers Clint Newton is a shadow of the player we had last season and instead of mixing it in the forwards he stayed out on the fringes next to Jake Webster ,just incase Jake hurt himself again! Webster makes my blood boil hes ok running onto a ball but forget anything else hes homeward bound come the end of the season ,his mistake were he left the ball for Briscoe to collect was his for the taking and he should be dropped for that alone !
Vella looks shattered and should be rested before the Derby and hes no longer a Captain on the pitch he does nothing to inspire his team mates ,give it to Benny Galea asap !
Dropped passes ,knock ons, missed tackles we saw it all in the 2nd half ,its time for heads to roll within the team ,nobody should be guaranteed a place ,will the Tinkerman change it for Leeds away ? I doubt it but we the fans are not going to stand for it much longer i dont buy into this we are only 5 games into the season and you dont win cups in March !
We all knew our squad was weaker than last season and now we are seeing it out on the pitch .Infact for the first time ever i heard Eddie Palace say " i think ill give Leeds away a miss " and FET agreed ! Bonus points was the debut of Josh Hodgson he looks a star and gave his all on the pitch and Alis Sausage Pasties that went down a treat in the well !
Enjoy yourselves in Leeds as the two wounded teams clash ,i cant see a Rovers win and i can see Keith Senior now awaiting a sackfull of Trys , i hope i am wrong ,im Rovers till i die and i make sasauge pies ! This is Ali G for Raalyroundtherobins.com ,10-5 over n out !
Cas by the fireside
So in a week were the bongo drums were beating loud n clear by Monday night around East Hull of Cookey being dropped from the team to face Castleford !
We even had an exclusive rumour on the Rovers unofficial forum by the Ticketmaster which was soon locked by the Admin ! All i will say is if you thought Stanley Genes book was a good un well you wait till the King of East Hull pens his memoirs and blows the lid off his Rugby L
eague Career ,i will be first in the Q to buy a copy !
The Rallyround crew went in Eddies hearse to Cas and Alis sausage rolls were just a fading memory to the lads as the Sausage Meat looked kinda sad as it waited for Hulls number one quiche and sausage roll maker to pop it back in the fridge ready for the Saints game !
As for me i made the short journey into Ings to visit my mate 'Madge Mann' who was a fine host with pizza and chips on the menu as we settled down to watch the game on Sky .
Now after slating the Rovers team last week i waited for the team to be named by Tinkerman Morgan ,we actually had a natural stand off in the team with Chaz I'Anson picked to play and not carry the water bottles !
Jake Webster took to the field looking like an Eygptian Mummy ,i thought his arm was gonna fall off at some point ,he had more strapping on than Nick Fozzards elbow !
Ben Cockayne kept his place in the team after last weeks howler and to be fair to him his try saving tackle on Castlefords Ainscough and his try would of given him a much needed confidence booster and i was happy i didnt have to show my Ass in Hammonds window as Briscoe returned at full back .
Scott Murrell had his best game in a long ,long time in a Rovers shirt and looked as though he had a point to prove to me and a few others ! His 40/20 kick was a beauty and his try all about determination and belief ,lets have more of it Scott !
Joel Clinton made his debut and he showed what a quality player he is going to be for Rovers .So with the Ticketmaster rumour now confirmed i was at a loss again with Cookes exclusion from the squad and we had Mick Vella propping at loose forward ?
The game itself well Rovers looked miles faster and sharper and passed the ball at more speed than last week and were unlucky to find themselves trailing Cas with Ainscough running riot as they raced into a 10 -0 lead even though one of them came from a forward pass ! Have a look it was miles forward !
Rovers were playing as a team tonight and showed character and determination to get that result for the Rovers hordes who had made the short journey up the m62 for a live televised game and again they outsung the home fans and came over loud n clear on the box ! Stand out players for me were Liam Watts and Rhys Lovegrove who were outstanding for Rovers .Lady Luck smiled on Rovers tonight with Watts match winning try finally breaking Castlefords hearts and their coach Terry Matterson crying like a baby on his after match interview.
So will Cooke return for the Saints game on Sunday ? All will be revealed on Sunday this is Ali G for Rallyroundtherobins.com ,10-5 over n out !
Hudds @ Home
So my first game of the season on a bitter ,freezing cold day in East Ull .
With new Rallyroundtherobins signing NickHKR signed up on a 5 year Rallyround contract just last week things were looking up as we look forward to Nicks ramblings on his travels supporting Hull KR . It as been noted Nick that you need to get your haircut and have a shave more often on matchdays ! So take note or no quiche for you son .
After last weeks poor show at Wigan ,was it just me who expected more changes to the team selection than Justin Morgan gave us to face the Giants .
Kris Welham kept his place after his horror show at Wigan ?
Jake Webster playing at stand off again ? Baffling ,your having a laugh arnt you Justin he has'nt got a clue and neither have you at the moment .
Ben Cockayne at full back had a mare and if he keeps his place against Cas and Chaz Ianson stays as water carrier i will show my ass in Hammonds Window !
Murrell who had spoken to the Hull Daily Mail earlier in the week about playing anywere for Hull KR long as hes playing ,well can i suggest the reserves !
Over the years at Craven Park we have been blessed with a conveyor belt of first class numer 9s and i have seen a few Flash Flannagan ,David Watkinson,Ray Price ,Mike Dixon all masters of their trade in that posistion ,but for some reason Morgan insists on picking and playing an out of form Murrell who is clearly out of his depth in the posistion at number 9 .
And it may be only 3 games into the season but we the fans deserve better than this shower of shite we witnessed on Sunday ,it was pathetic ,the worrying thing is we have seen this happen before a clueless ,guttless effort in a Rovers shirt ,we had 2,500 fans missing from the last home game ,so much for them fans returning after their first visit to Craven Park and a visit from X Factors Olly .
And who can blame them we have a team of players that insist on passing a ball either too high or too low ,i dont know of any other team that does this ? We are clueless with no recognised number 6 ,and Dobson is wasted now in the team.
Clint Newton needs to pull his finger out and get some kind of communication going with Cookey instead of looking at Cookey like it was all his fault when clearly it wasnt !
The game itself well what can you say Shuddersfield will never have it so easy in a game their massive pack were willing runners and Shirleys Ponytail never really got dirty ,Shuddersfield didnt really need him ,they won at a canter .
The two Hodgsons were superb and the speedy Hull born winger David Hodgson had pace to burn and bagged a hat trick ,how Liam Colbon would of relished some of his ball time and ran down the wings instead of running aimlessly into a opposistion pack that
was waiting to smash you ! Highlite of the day for me was Eddie Palace bringing his Billy Joels greatest hits CD to get signed at halftime ,the poor old sod was getting mixed up again withthe new Kid on the block Joel Clinton who was freezing and shivering as he was introduced to the crowd at half t
ime . The quiche and sausage rolls went down a treat as Hitler n FET filled their tums .Me i left at 22-0 with 12 minutes to go and i was joined by hundreds who had made that choice to leave early and rightly so ,we pay good money to be entertained and on this showing a live Sky game away to Cas next on the horizon i can see one of the poorest turnouts from the Rovers hordes who expect better ! Have a safe trip to Cas i wont be there .This is Alistair Gee for Rallyroundtherobins ,10-5 over nout !
So here goes no doubt i will ruffle a few feathers again with my season preveiw but its only my opinion so dont take offence .
David Mills should be paid up and told your never going to make it in Super League .
Jake Webster will never play for New Zealand again whilst he keeps on getting injured during his game time in a Hull Kr shirt and will struggle to get through the full season with Ratu wanting that centre shirt.
Scott Murrell i cant understand how he gets picked at all ! Chaz Anson would play him off the park at 6 n 13 and should be given more game time .Murrell at hooker ? No chance too slow and offers nothing in attack !
And if Cooke is to play at 6 lets give him the ball more and let him run at defenders what a waste of talent this East Hull kids been ,hes a local lad playing for his beloved Hull KR and the team should be built around him ,infact Morgan should give him the Captains arm band but we all know thats never going to happen dont we .Cookey would of been gone last season if Wakey could of afforded him and Danny Brough would of been playing for Rovers ,but it wasnt to be . So as we look at what will be his last season at Rovers i really hope Cookey turns on the style either at 6 or 13 and shoves two fingers at those that wrote him off !
All hail Paul Cooke The King of East Hull !
So with money being a bit too tight to mention at Craven Park my wish for windows and air con in the Robins Nest are a bit like Eddie Palace fathering another child ! Not a chance !
More pies are required on match days as they always seem to run out ?
The players dug outs should be lowered into the ground as they get in the way for those watching in the Well but again thats not going to happen .
Rufus the best mascot in Super League should be knighted and i hope its Lee in the suit and nobody else .
To those of you that stand in the East Stand lets have a new chant of East Stands Barmy Army ,c mon Evo ,Piddy n Garthy get it sorted theres no finer sight from the West Stand than the East Stand in full voice it really does look an awesome sight .
To the players of Hull Kingston Rovers when you pull on that shirt remember were this club was a few seasons ago in them NL1 days ,and give us your best on match days thats all we ask and nots let have what happened last season after that Challenge Cup defeat at home to Warrington when it all went tits up ! And we the fans suffered !
To Justin Morgan play players in their natural positions and dont be a Tinkerman !
As for me i will be at Rovers when i can get there due to a new career change and doing shift work on weekends so dont be to hard on me when you see me at a game .
And having to work with a few Dullas at work i can tell you they all know the words to Red Red Robin and are closet Rovers fans really !
So as i go get my ingredients for another quiche i wish you all a happy new season and remember we are Hull KR ,wear your colours with pride regardless of the result !
This is Alistair Gee for Rallyroundtherobins.com. 10-5 over n out.
