Full name Hull Kingston Rovers
Rugby Football Club
Nickname(s) The Robins
KR Rovers Reds
Website Official site
Founded 1882; 134 years ago
Current details
Ground(s)
Craven Park, Hull 12,000), since 1989
Old Craven Park, 1922-89
Craven Street, 1895-1922
Chairman Neil Hudgell
Coach(s) James Webster [1]
Competition Super League
2015 season 10th
Rugby football current event.png Current season
Hull Kingston Rovers (also known as Hull KR) is an English professional rugby league football club based in Hull, England. The club formed in 1882 and currently competes in Super League, having won promotion from National League One in 2006. Hull Kingston Rovers are one of two professional rugby league teams in the city along with Hull F.C., who play in the western side of the city, while Hull KR are based in the eastern side at Craven Park. The River Hull is usually seen as the divide between the two clubs in the city. Hull KR's nickname is "the Robins" which originates from their traditional playing colours[2] of red and white.
Full name Ville de Perpignan Dragons Rugby League Football Club
Nickname(s) Dragons, Dracs, Dracs Catalans
Short name Catalans
Website www.catalansdragons.com
Colours Catalanscolours.svg
Founded 2000 (as Union Treiziste Catalane)
Current details
Ground(s)
Stade Gilbert Brutus (13,000), (2007-)
Stade Aimé Giral, (2006-07)
Chairman Bernard Guasch
Coach(s) Laurent Frayssinous
Captain(s) Gregory Mounis, Remi Casty
Competition Super League
2015 season 7th
Home jersey
Home colours
Away jersey
Away colours
Rugby football current event.png Current season
The Catalans Dragons (French and Catalan: Dragons Catalans) are a professional rugby league club in Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, France. They play in the Super League, the only team in the competition from outside England. The Dragons play home games at Stade Gilbert Brutus.
The club was formed in 2000 by a merger of XIII Catalan and AS Saint Estève into Union Treiziste Catalane (UTC). They won the 2005 French Rugby League Championship and the Lord Derby Cup in 2004 and 2005. In 2006, they were granted a Super League licence, taking the name Catalans Dragons. UTC continues to compete in the French Championship's Elite One Championship as a feeder club for the Dragons.
Catalans Dragons climbed to second in First Utility Super League with a 40-0 win over Hull KR at the KC Lightstream Stadium.
It was their fifth successive win and their third on the road, while Rovers' first game back on home soil since conceding four tries in the final quarter of their derby against Hull FC continued in the same manner.
Catalans got on the front foot right from the opening kick-off with Willie Mason taking the first hit-up in his return to Rovers, where he spent a brief spell before an acrimonious departure in 2010.
At the end of the first set Jodie Broughton touched down, and from the restart Pat Richards won a penalty, from which Vincent Duport scored his side's second.
Broughton strolled through for his second of the night in the 22nd minute before Christian Inu jumped higher than Kieran Dixon to score the French side's fourth try.
Things got worse for Rovers just before half-time when Gregory Mounis picked up a pass from Olivier Elima to score from close range.
Rovers were caught napping nine minutes into the second half when Richie Myler, who was in great form throughout, nipped through from two metres out.
Ben Cockayne's sin binning summed up Rovers night in the 54th minute and Mason used his gangly frame to ground the ball.
Catalans coach Laurent Frayssinous described his side's win as the best away vitory in his coaching career.
He admitted he was more satisfied with the way his side defended in keeping Rovers scoreless in front of their own fans, one week after the Robins won 30-10 at defending champions Leeds.
"We have a good squad," Frayssinous said. "I have never been worried about what people say about us.
"We want to keep on working hard for each other. Consistency is the key.
"We defended very well as a team. We are getting better and better and so is our technique.
"In the past we have been described as an offensive team but after the last two weeks I am glad to say we are a very good defensive team too.
"It's very pleasing to travel back to France after a win.”
Rovers coach James Webster admits the fifth game in 18 days proved too much for his battered and bruised side.
"This was a game too far for us," Webster said. "I know the other teams have had the same number of games in the same number of days, but we started below them.
"We've been up for the other games, but the dam burst for us.
"Some of the players haven't been in the environment before because they have been playing for West Hull or the under-19s.
"We now have nine days to prepare for the cup game against Oldham which will give us time to do some training on the pitch which we haven't been able to do lately.
