Mum Keeping Mum

The mother of Rovers manager Steve Hall was not commenting today on whether or not she was in the Jolly Poacher pub in Christchurch yesterday. "This is a press beat up and Rovers had nothing to do with incident involving the Hurricanes" said Hall "and I understand in any event the hand bag was a little black Roxy bag belonging to a 22 year old, and I can vouch my mum is no spring chicken". Hall said fog was not likely to be an issue in the Rovers semi-finall next week "We've obviously talked about playing in fog but at an indoor venue it is unlikely to be an issue" said Hall "however if need be I guess we could bring some smoke to impair visibility on the field". Rovers chariman Dean Rossiter confirmed the Rovers club did not endorse smoke bombs even if Rovers did go three or four goals behind.