Re: Rowley : Sun Apr 07, 2024 8:50 am  

We have a major job on to finish 6th.
Wigan, Saints, Cats, Wire and HKR will finish above us.
And we're not playing as well as Hudds and Salford at the moment.

Maybe better if we do finish 7th or 8th and start the next rebuild.....

Re: Rowley : Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:32 am  

Simmo71 wrote:

We have a major job on to finish 6th.
Wigan, Saints, Cats, Wire and HKR will finish above us.
And we're not playing as well as Hudds and Salford at the moment.

Maybe better if we do finish 7th or 8th and start the next rebuild.....

That’s the spirit mate - we either make the play-offs in which case RS will have another year to fix things at Leeds and we are Making Progress. Or we don’t make the play-offs and I think RS will have to go. Finishing lower than sixth this year I think means voodoo dolls all round.

I don’t know - I know I’m very much against the grain on the sunshine forum here but I think RS has a lot of good qualities. Without speaking to the players themselves I couldn’t judge him as a coach. Clearly all is not as it should be still out on the field though. What does depress me though is a big and proud club like Leeds still a laughing stock in the league; which is what we are.

We can look at Covid, the new stadium, financial pressures perhaps etc but those excuses are running out more and mores. At the end of the day if RS goes what possible credibility does GH have left?

Re: Rowley : Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:01 pm  

I still think we'll finish at least 6th, we'll struggle against the likes of Wigan, Saints and Warrington, but outside of them, we can hold our own against the rest.

Re: Rowley : Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:33 pm  

Jack Burton wrote:

I still think we'll finish at least 6th, we'll struggle against the likes of Wigan, Saints and Warrington, but outside of them, we can hold our own against the rest.

That’s not good enough imho…. But appreciate acceptable for the more patient amongst us!

Re: Rowley : Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:45 pm  

Shabino wrote:

Interested to know what you’ve seen from Croft, when we’ve really needed a bit of class?

You are making yourself look daft

Re: Rowley : Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:57 pm  

Shabino wrote:

That’s not good enough imho…. But appreciate acceptable for the more patient amongst us!

Really? We finished 8th last season. Finishing in the playoffs would be a good level of improvement

Re: Rowley : Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:32 pm  

I actually agree sixth ish isn’t god enough, but it might be all we can realistically hope for this year we’ll find out.

Anything below that, as I’ve said if it isn’t down to a biblical injury list, RS should go.

If he can steer is into top half this year; and the club / GH will back another handful of ambitious signings, we might just go into next year with a spring.

In good news, most of the squad is still young enough to improve and benefit from pre-seasons; I feel like we have a natural improvement in us now. We just lack stars frankly.

Re: Rowley : Sun Apr 07, 2024 2:40 pm  

ploinerrhino wrote:

You are making yourself look daft

You obviously don’t watch NRL. Looking one of best halves in the comp!

Re: Rowley : Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:08 pm  

KaeruJim wrote:

I actually agree sixth ish isn’t god enough, but it might be all we can realistically hope for this year we’ll find out.

Anything below that, as I’ve said if it isn’t down to a biblical injury list, RS should go.

If he can steer is into top half this year; and the club / GH will back another handful of ambitious signings, we might just go into next year with a spring.

In good news, most of the squad is still young enough to improve and benefit from pre-seasons; I feel like we have a natural improvement in us now. We just lack stars frankly.

If it’s stars we are missing, then we will have trouble accommodating them given the wages we are paying to a few key members of the squad. We’re already using the Marquee positions, so unless we can pay these new stars less and therefore not burst the cap, we’re not getting them in any time soon.

Re: Rowley : Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:21 pm  

Shabino wrote:

You obviously don’t watch NRL. Looking one of best halves in the comp!

His form in England after his first season at the Midgets is way below Croft