{"id":708238,"date":"2026-07-24T04:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T04:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708238\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T04:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T04:22:13","slug":"willie-peters-agrees-with-jon-wilkins-hull-kr-criticism-after-doom-loop-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708238\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Peters agrees with Jon Wilkin&#8217;s Hull KR criticism after &#8216;doom loop&#8217; comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peters was asked about the comments in his pre-match derby press conference<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ex-England and Great Britain international Jon Wilkin made 31 appearances for Hull KR as a youngster.\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0_OH9_6736.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Ex-England and Great Britain international Jon Wilkin made 31 appearances for Hull KR as a youngster.\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Ex-England and Great Britain international Jon Wilkin made 31 appearances for Hull KR as a youngster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Hull KR boss Willie Peters believes Sky Sports pundit Jon Wilkin is right following his claim that the Robins are stuck in a &#8216;doom loop&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Rovers fell to their third defeat in four games last Saturday at Warrington Wolves with the club turning in a lacklustre performance on both sides of the ball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It was the same story the previous week when Peters&#8217; side lost at home to Wakefield Trinity and they even failed to get over the line on that occasion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">As such, Wilkin was damning in his comments after the contest at the Halliwell Jones Stadium, which Rovers lost 34-12, claiming that Rovers have become stuck in a cycle of negativity as they slip further and further away from being the side that won the treble last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Wilkin criticised the uncharacteristic lack of discipline and errors, while he also pointed to just how soft the club have been defensively, with one negative leading to another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">And, Peters agrees with the pundit in reference to the last two outings in particular.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cAt the moment he\u2019s right, if you\u2019re going by the last couple of games,&#8221; the Rovers boss conceded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cWe can use any excuse, and there are a lot of reasons. We\u2019re talking internally with the board around why we\u2019re in this situation or why I believe we\u2019re in this situation, but that doesn\u2019t help the next ten weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cYou\u2019ve got to push through it, you\u2019ve only got two options\u2026 you either run towards it or say, \u2018I\u2019ve had enough\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cThis team, this club and this community aren\u2019t about that, that\u2019s been our DNA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve spoken about who we are and what we\u2019re going to be about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peters was asked about the comments in his pre-match derby press conference Ex-England and Great Britain international Jon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[20372,5903,20370,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-708238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-hull-kr","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-league","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}