Mr. Zucchini Head wrote:
It's funny how excited some Rovers fans are getting after a couple of decent wins. We are a work in progress, there is plenty to be positive about, but realistically I don't think we will be able to mount a true challenge until next season, maybe even the season after that once Smith has the squad he wants and has had time to really instill the culture and the ideas he wants.
And yet, despite my tempered expectations, I'm still pretty certain we will finish above Rovers when all is said and done. They've got some good players, but a fair few plodders too, and they have no squad depth. When we are into May/June and the injuries are racking up and the games are coming thick and fast they will drop like a stone.
SL is, in my often-stated opinion, a stale ‘product’. You don’t need Tarquin’s barometer, just look at the table for any of the previous seasons and you’d likely have a pretty good guide to the year ahead. It is extraordinarily hard to get excited about mounting a true challenge this side of ecological catastrophe and the end of modern civilization.
That said, it is at least refreshing in the narrower context of Hull KR to have coaches talking both retrospectively and prospectively about winning games. It has been some time (2017 season in the Championship, aside). We’ve been so flaming diffident. In fairness to previous coaches they’ve not had the stability or resources (I’m not buying all this richest club nonsense, btw… we’ve got some high calibre people on board but I’ve seen little meaningful indication, so far, that we’re now rich, never mind richest) that we seem to have now.
I think we look pretty good for depth this year, and it is the first time since Morgan that it feels like we haven’t had to choose between having a little bit of quality and a little bit of depth.
