Div wrote:
It cannot be pleasant watching your team get tonked week in week out but the fact is the system we have in Super League makes it very difficult for a team winning a franchise to assemble a squad good enough to compete in the timescale allowed. If you really thought you were going to be competing for the top 8 in your first season back then you are very misguided.
Probably easy to say looking in from outside but you need a degree of patience and accept the fact it may well take the 3 years before the next franchise application to build a team that can genuinely compete most weeks.
See you on Saturday !
No-one thought that we'd be top 8 - NO-ONE!
But the standard of RL, from a fully pro squad, is atrocious. We are getting, not just beaten, but hammered week in week out. The two home wins are looking more and more like some strange anomaly.
Fans just wanted to see a well organised team defend well and show a bit of fight and spirit. What we have is a total shambles that is conceding record defeats.
The atmosphere, amongst the Widnes fans on Monday, was the worst I've ever known. It was like a morgue. The Bradford fans were noisy and e enjoying themselves, despite what their club is going though. We, on the other hand, are plain sick of the same old poop. People are clearly voting with their feet, as we only got a crowd of 5,600, with about 1,000 Bulls fans in attendance. If you think that is bad, and it is, wait until you see how many turn out against the Saints in the Challenge Cup game.
Betts is out of his depth and incompetent. He needs to go ASAP.
