JAMES Batchelor hopes some home comforts can ease Hull KR’s travel sickness.
Rovers were left looking more like world chumps as they were hammered 58-6 by Leeds in Las Vegas.
Now they swap Sin City for Terrier Town as Willie Peters’ men head to Huddersfield determined to get their Super League season up and running.
And former Town season ticket holder Batchelor is determined to follow in his heroes’ footsteps by doing the business at what is now the Accu Stadium.
“I had a season ticket for 15 or 16 years before having my son,” revealed Batchelor. “I was there pretty much every week. Now whenever I can, I try to get there.
“I had a few favourite players. When I was younger, it was Andy Booth but I’d say more Aaron Mooy, Michael Hefele and Steve Mounie from that Premier League team.
“When I can get there, I go and it’s nice to see his mates again and catch up with them because we don’t get to see them as much as we’d like.
“At the moment, it’s more sort of following it on the phone and when we were in Vegas, and Town lost to Wigan, it was like a 7am kick-off. It ruined my breakfast seeing that result.
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“The Premier League days were fun for the first 12 or 13 months. On some of those, the stadium was a pretty special place.
“At Giants matches, it is very different but if you’re on mentally and focused on the game, you don’t really pay as much attention to everything going on around you.”
Back rower Batchelor insists he is over the jet lag from travelling to Las Vegas and back – now to get last week’s shocker out of Hull KR’s system.
Anything like a repeat would see the Robins risk a third straight league loss as the 27-year-old added: “We were that far off in every area.
“It was a pretty quiet flight back. It’s a long journey home and it felt even longer off the back of that.
“Getting criticism is not nice but, speaking from a personal point of view, I deserved it, I wasn’t good enough.
“We’ve got to own that and then move forward and use that as sort of fuel to build forward.”
