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Titans Chat / Re: Blackheath v Roth latest scores
« on: March 15, 2026, 12:14:42 pm »
We lost fair and square to a good team, but the referee was poor, some of the penalty decisions were baffling to say the least, and he can’t spot a non straight line out right in front of him. The game needed a good referee, and unfortunately it didn’t get one.
Not an excuse, on to next week. If Povey is injured, I wonder if we’ll be able to get the Scottish lad Rutherford back. If not it’ll have to be Lloyd at 10, and when he plays there, we miss him in the midfield.

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Titans Chat / Re: Team Lineup To Face Blackheath Tomorrow
« on: March 13, 2026, 02:22:25 pm »
I think this the strongest team we have available, the way Jack Baldry has been playing at 8, missing Callum Bustin is less of an issue, although Bustin always has a score in him.
Massively looking forward to a day in London tomorrow to see this match, Blackheath will see this as their last opportunity to finish top (which it is). Absolute belter a match up.

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Titans Chat / Re: What lies ahead
« on: March 02, 2026, 09:11:24 pm »
The biggest obstacle to promotion could be the truly awful mud bath of a pitch, with another 3 games still to play on it. I watched a lot or rugby over the weekend, in our league and others, the pitch at Clifton Lane was by far the worst. It’s rained everywhere in the UK, not just here, you have to wonder why the pitch is as bad as it is.
It brings into focus the work that needs to be done at the Ground, if we get promoted to the Champ.
We’re in a great position now, I feel it’s ours to lose, despite a few difficult games still to play. But they need to sort that pitch out.

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Titans Chat / Re: Updated end of season prediction
« on: February 24, 2026, 05:35:46 pm »
If it goes to the last day, Sale at home will be difficult, they have shown a level of consistency through the season to demonstrate that they’re a good side, and could beat anyone on their day. Our result there, on the opening day, was 1 of our best away wins of the season, if not the best.
On another note, if we do get promoted, and the facilities are deemed good enough, at Clifton Lane, it will be interesting to see the plan for the Ground and the squad. And if Harvey isn’t lured away to a bigger club. We’ve been in that league before, and held our own, but Richmond, who you feel will have good resources, have struggled this season, and a relegation play off place is probably the best they’ll get.

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Titans Chat / Re: Team v Park
« on: January 30, 2026, 02:53:26 pm »
This is pretty much Harvey’s ‘go to’ team, with the exception of 8. I agree Rosslyn Park will be massively up for the challenge. Plymouth at Dings Crusaders, they should win, but we lost there, so you never know.

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Titans Chat / Re: Clifton game
« on: January 11, 2026, 01:28:47 pm »
Poor show by the club yesterday, to be playing a club from Bristol, or anywhere for that matter, and postponing the game at 1pm is amateurish to put it mildly. It was obvious that the game was in doubt, a request for an official to get down to the Ground should have been made earlier. From the outside, it looks like they gambled on the pitch thawing, and it didn’t.
The comms out of the club was equally poor. Many people contacted via X to ask the question, none of them received a reply.  No apology either for the late call off.

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Titans Chat / Re: Leeds Tykes v Roth latest scores
« on: December 22, 2025, 08:31:38 pm »
Rob Povey has done ok since coming back, he’s by far our best 10, but he was the guilty party on Saturday at missing touch with a penalty or 2.
I thought our backs would be licking their lips at the wide open spaces at Headingley, but it was actually their back 3 who impressed, albeit the ball was put in the right areas for them, and that’s what we didn’t do.
It’s going to be tight, it’s a really competitive league, but you’re right, we seem to have lost a little something recently, and we need to get it back to win this league.

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Titans Chat / Re: Leeds Tykes v Roth latest scores
« on: December 22, 2025, 11:42:28 am »
Yes, got to agree with this, I’m not sure about some of the penalties he gave them in the 1st half, but that meant they had territory almost the whole half, had they executed more, we’d have lost by a few more points.
In the 2nd half, they kicked intelligently, and we didn’t, so once again almost all the game was played in our half.
Too many errors, tactics not great on the day, and unfortunately Leeds played well, we got what we deserved, or a point more than we deserved.
The wheels do seem to have fallen off at Rosslyn Park, for now anyway, but Plymouth have found form, and a few others too.
Our result at Sale, on the opening day, looks better now than it did at the time.

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Titans Chat / Re: Harvey Interview
« on: December 08, 2025, 09:20:56 pm »
Harvey is a fantastic coach, he’s changed the mindset at the club, and the mindset of our supporters. Too many of our fans were happy when we were in Nat 2 playing Wharfdale, Sheffield Tigers and Hull Ionians, as they were local games.
Harvey saw the potential of the club, and has upped the ante big time.
Now, it’s regarded as this league, or the 1 above, is the place that our club should be striving to play - exciting times.

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The 2 European finals are not listed. Will they not be showing at the clubhouse. An English club in both finals?

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Titans Chat / Re: Titans Squad 2025-26
« on: May 13, 2025, 09:03:23 pm »
What’s happened to Rob Povey?

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Titans Chat / Re: The Great Escape
« on: April 03, 2020, 08:53:55 pm »
Can I ask why the majority want us to retain as much of the current squad as possible for next season? The squad was nowhere near good enough, we need winners. Things improved latterly with bonus points but we still only won 2 games. We need a completely different mentality at the club, we need winners on and off the field. And, importantly it’s not all about this season, the current decline has been going on for years. Tonight I am absolutely gutted and want to blame everyone. Rotherham Titans should not be playing at the 4th level of professional rugby.

I also read people blaming Posa, why do we never blame the people who recruit the coach? This is a desperately sad day for our club. There is no sugar coating that.

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Titans Chat / Re: Team for Saturday
« on: February 15, 2020, 08:58:31 am »
At the Back - I’ve not been watching different games, save the sarcasm! That’s my opinion which is what this forum is about - isn’t it? I say this because our set piece has in the main not been good enough this season. Line out awful and scrum often taken apart too easily.
When you look at it in the context of last season in the same league, from 1 to 8 we were much better, our scrum, with Dan Richardson in particular exceptional, and a proper ball carrier in Seb at number 8, was 1 of the best, if not the best, in the league.

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Titans Chat / Re: Team for Saturday
« on: February 14, 2020, 09:24:45 pm »
For a must win game, not only that but a must win 5 point game, Backs look good although personally I’d rather see Boxhall and Hollingsworth as the half back pairing.

The problem is that the backs haven’t been the issue this season. Will the forwards be good enough tomorrow? We will see. It has to be a bonus point win in horrible weather or we are staring the abyss in the face.

We played badly at their place and should have lost, tomorrow is not a gimme!

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Titans Chat / Re: Roth v Chinnor latest scores
« on: February 02, 2020, 09:51:06 am »
David Mitchell, a couple of pints after the match yesterday meant I couldn’t differentiate between an optimistic and a pessimist! 😀 However, you get my drift. I look forward to seeing this battle plan! It’s not a case of glass half full or half empty. I just can’t see how we can do something in the last 8 or 9 games that we haven’t done for the 1st 20! It’s more about being realistic.
Can this team suddenly find a level that’s capable of beating Richmond on Saturday, or Rams 2 weeks after that. As to survive we will have to win some games like that.

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