: Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:31 am  

Anyone fancy digging up the 22nd July posts when people predicted Salford and Crusaders not getting 6 points between them?

Fair enough, they're all Salford so far but I think these two could still surprise us this this season, let alone over the next two years.

Re: Celtic to get zero points? : Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:40 am  

declaration wrote:

They have looked poor the little I've seen, and despite constant patronising talk of effort and progress, they have today been battered at home by Quins.

They've already lost once to Salford and even Warrington, so their games down there will be massive.

It will make a mockery of licensing to have a team lose every game in a season. It's alright to say they are building for the future, but they could have done that in NL1, couldn't they.

I think the RFL have done this too early and risk alienating the Welsh public with a team of losing Aussies.

what the people of wales have seen is just how competitive the superleague is and how tough the league is. Nobody is daft enough to think we should throw 17 welsh kids to the wolves so actually people are relatively patient.
The comp is about winning and losing, implicit in that is the possibility of teams losing every game which does not relate to licensing in my opinion.
More pertinent is exactly what is the point of this discussion at the moment?

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:03 am  

The only mystery to me is how anyone could genuinely think CC could possibly be a competitive mid-table side in their first year, starting from scratch, against a raft of teams and hundreds of opposing players who have had plenty of time in the SL School of Hard Knocks.

Personally I'll form a view on them in Year 3. But must say that so far I have found them to be probably more competitive than anyone had a right to expect.

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:07 am  

In Cas' first 11 games last year we lost 9 and won 2 - against Leeds and Saints. Celtic will pull some wins out of the bag. You can't expect them to be seriously competing in their first year in SL.

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:17 am  

Sammy Stripes wrote:

Warrington havent looked like winning or playing competative rugby for a while, should they have their liscence taken from them too? How about wigan?

Leave us out of it!!

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:43 am  

roversmad wrote:

When???

Drunk when posted.