Hull KR may sit three points clear at the top of the Super League table but they still have work to do as they strive towards improvement. That’s the message from Willie Peters after watching his side thump Leigh Leopards on Sunday afternoon as first met second in the table.
The Robins were simply too strong for the Leopards on the day and they blew them away in the first half with four tries. Oliver Gildart got the first, while Kelepi Tanginoa’s effort was sandwiched by Mikey Lewis tries as the stand-off showed glimpses of his Man of Steel winning form.
Tom Davies grabbed Rovers’ fifth in the second half and rounded off the rout with Leigh failing to lay a glove on their hosts, who went three points clear at the summit with five games played. KR won’t be getting ahead of themselves, though, and Peters still sees improvements to be made.
“It’s exactly where we want to be but we’re certainly not getting carried away,” Peters said after the game. “We understand there’s a lot of games ahead and it starts next week for us against Huddersfield.
“You can only play what’s in front and in the first five weeks we’ve been able to go through unbeaten. There’s been a couple of games that we could have easily lost but we found a way and it’s just about building and improving.
“I believe there’s always improvement, we’ll have to wait and see how much but it comes back to how committed the players are and us as staff, what we put into our weeks and making sure we’re staying consistent. If we do that and ask more of ourselves, we’ll keep improving.
“If we want to dip the toe and come to training and not go all out when it’s time to do that then you don’t improve. With this team I don’t question that, I know what we’ll get.”
Hull KR managed to put the game to bed in the first half with their attacking flair and quality. It was the clean sheet that Peters left Craven Park cherishing most, though.
“Keeping a side like Leigh to zero is a difficult thing to do but the players have done it again and that’s a credit to what they do,” he added. “What they’ve done in the pre-season and what they’ve done in the week is all around focusing on our defence and getting that right and we did today.
“We’ll always look at defence first. We believe the points will come off the back of our defence. It came late in that first half, we scored points, and I think we needed to because it was 10-0 and if you go in 10-0 with that wind, it’s not the lead that we wanted. It was all based around our defence and what we did on the back of it.”
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