Re: final league position : Sun Dec 20, 2009 3:54 pm  

Depends on injuries, our first choice 17 is better this year than last, and last year our first choice 17 did fantastically, the likes of brierly, thompson, holmes etc may step up this year and improve the team too.

For me the two key men will be hudson and sherwin, if we can keep them both fit then we will make the play offs imo, if not we wont.

Lot of course depends on if we can once again improve our defence, if we averaged one less try conceded per game last season we would have been top 3.

To add to this of course it all depends on how other teams do, one or two teams always massively underachieve (ie bradford and wire last year). Its going to be hard to predict this year, for instance on paper bradford are stronger, but they have a completley new half back pairing, a new starting hooker , and few other new players, they may take a while to gel and several of there players are injury prone (sculthorpe, reardon etc).They could be anywhere between 5th and 10th.

Re: final league position : Sun Dec 20, 2009 5:01 pm  

Top 8 is a must, anything less is a failure even with a "small" squad, what's not to say the juniors don't come up big and perform better then some of the so called bigger names? No top 8 then a franchise is even less likely, down to you now Matterson, this is the year people will finally either turn on him or his doubters will get behind him after bringing this squad to the next level.

Re: final league position : Sun Dec 20, 2009 5:11 pm  

Gaslight wrote:

Top 8 is a must, anything less is a failure even with a "small" squad, what's not to say the juniors don't come up big and perform better then some of the so called bigger names? No top 8 then a franchise is even less likely, down to you now Matterson, this is the year people will finally either turn on him or his doubters will get behind him after bringing this squad to the next level.

I would love to see what matterson could do if he had the same budget to work with that most coaches in the league have (ie full cap or close to it) currentley only quins and celtic spend less than us (with salford about on a par and wakey slightly more) and we still managed to do better than most teams. Spending the full cap could get us another 5 good sl quality players, give us some depth and add competition for places.

Re: final league position : Sun Dec 20, 2009 5:14 pm  

Gaslight wrote:

Top 8 is a must, anything less is a failure even with a "small" squad, what's not to say the juniors don't come up big and perform better then some of the so called bigger names? No top 8 then a franchise is even less likely, down to you now Matterson, this is the year people will finally either turn on him or his doubters will get behind him after bringing this squad to the next level.

100% agree with this.

Re: final league position : Mon Dec 21, 2009 5:12 pm  

tigerman1+1 wrote:

Been looking at teams and theirs squads for this year, I can see us managing no better than 9th this year, whats your view??

If your very lucky

Re: final league position : Mon Dec 21, 2009 5:34 pm  

Im amazed it took 14 posts before a troll came on, if and only if you read the threads again just about every one is just about saying that if we are lucky, we know were in for a hard season, so please rejoin your own board thats a good boy

Re: final league position : Tue Dec 22, 2009 9:52 am  

Strong squad this year have Cas and a good coach in TM. I see you in the playoffs personally.

Re: final league position : Tue Dec 22, 2009 12:25 pm  

tigerman1+1 wrote:

Im amazed it took 14 posts before a troll came on, if and only if you read the threads again just about every one is just about saying that if we are lucky, we know were in for a hard season, so please rejoin your own board thats a good boy

tigerman1+1 wrote:

I can see us managing no better than 9ththis year, WHATS YOUR VIEW??

Touchy or what, you are very insecure for somebody what tries to come across as Jack the lad. You asked for a view I gave you mine. Sorry if it wasnt what you wanted to hear, but with your fantastic player recruitment for the coming season what did you expect.

Re: final league position : Tue Dec 22, 2009 5:20 pm  

mopseyslovechild wrote:

Touchy or what, you are very insecure for somebody what tries to come across as Jack the lad. You asked for a view I gave you mine. Sorry if it wasnt what you wanted to hear, but with your fantastic player recruitment for the coming season what did you expect.

a poor excuse for a troll bring back chissit atleast he has an interesting story of how he came by his name

Re: final league position : Tue Dec 22, 2009 8:30 pm  

Is this sniping really necessary? I'm thinking no...

Back on topic.