Whilst I agree that Super League has perhaps gone a bit weaker as a competition, the result over the past few years is that there is much more home grown talent coming through to represent their teams. This is brilliant because instead of seeing a bunch of mercenaries, you're seeing lots more players, playing their heart out for their home town clubs, and thus gradually improving the talent we have here.

You only have to look at the pool of talent that the England coach as to pick from now. A few years ago there wasn't a decent winger we could pick, and would instead have to chuck a half back on the wing (ie Pryce). Now, we're spoilt with them. And as a result we're much tighter defensively down the flanks internationally than we've been for as long as I can remember. We're spoilt with forwards.

Talk to a fan of a football premier league team, they would love to have local, or even just British lads, representing their clubs rather than foreign imports and watching a team that has lost it's character and is unrecognisable.

Let's get behind our coach and team and stop harping on about the good old days. We're spoilt with the team we have. In my 30 odd years of watching them I've never seen us in a relegation dogfight. Let's judge KC 10-15 games in. He's got lots of young lads, let's see if he can gel them and get them playing some good rugby.

COYS