Jake the Peg wrote:
I think a lot of people are getting a bit ahead of themselves with next year's team/squad (happens every year to be fair). Overall the team isn't any stronger for me, probably weaker in a couple of areas than what we had at the start of last season (mckinnon>mcdonnell, loss of moa, inexperienced right centre/wing combo, losing the attacking threat of manu). I think we'll be 5th to 7th depending on how other teams do. Really, only holdsworth is a significant improvement on what we've lost (don't want to get into a manu v ellis debate and ellis could well be great for us but can't see that he's going to be a significant improvement for the team as a whole).
I know we could have picked up more points if we'd not thrown some games away, but so could all teams, and conversely, we could also have lost a couple we won if things had panned out differently.
Really don't see the current squad as being as good as leeds, wire, les cats or wigan. Hope I'm wrong
I can see what you are saying, but for me the biggest weakness last season was halfback and this showed in the Warrington play off game, that has been improved massively just by signing Holdsworth.
The main area of improvement and strength for me next season is our
squad it looks much stronger, we now have young players that we know are capable of stepping up, which we haven't had for the last few year and I think gentle will be a better coach now that he has some SL experience.
Next season if we can play our strongest lineup we could see the likes of Horne, Crookes, Arundel, Pitts, Galea and Green not getting a game.