Re: Reasons to be cheerful 1,2,3 ... : Mon Aug 22, 2016 2:11 pm  

Finishing above Leeds for the the first time since Adam was a lad.

Re: Reasons to be cheerful 1,2,3 ... : Mon Aug 22, 2016 2:26 pm  

Willzay wrote:

Meant in the super eights. I was responding to Dave K who was comparing situations with Hull last year in the eights.

Sorry thought you meant overall...apologies. Yes, yesterday was particularly terrible.

Re: Reasons to be cheerful 1,2,3 ... : Mon Aug 22, 2016 3:25 pm  

Granted I haven't seen you play in the 8's yet, but your rugby before was good. It certainly cannot be a full comparison to Hull as we are better resourced, but I still think you are better for being in the 8's as you can prepare for next year, for example Rovers can't even babe their coach until they are confirmed back in SL.

Re: Reasons to be cheerful 1,2,3 ... : Mon Aug 22, 2016 4:51 pm  

At the start of the season all I wanted was to have a team that could beat the others if they were down on numbers or off form. I got sick last year of poor teams coming to belle Vue and hammering us even if they were playing rubbish.
This year has been brilliant as we have taken advantage of most teams who were not at their best. It's been entertaining, exciting and best of all we are not in the middle 8s.
I know it's frustrating now but we've already had the best season we could have hoped for so I can forgive the poor form now.

Re: Reasons to be cheerful 1,2,3 ... : Mon Aug 22, 2016 8:58 pm  

Huddersfield might get relegated.

Re: Reasons to be cheerful 1,2,3 ... : Tue Aug 23, 2016 2:05 am  

Dave K. wrote:

Granted I haven't seen you play in the 8's yet, but your rugby before was good. It certainly cannot be a full comparison to Hull as we are better resourced, but I still think you are better for being in the 8's as you can prepare for next year, for example Rovers can't even babe their coach until they are confirmed back in SL.

No arguments there Dave.

Re: Reasons to be cheerful 1,2,3 ... : Tue Aug 23, 2016 3:40 am  

MAIN reason is that we are not in the middle 8's!! that is reason to be overjoyed!!

if we don't make changes to the squad with players in key positions I really worry re next year- we got lucky this one

Re: Reasons to be cheerful 1,2,3 ... : Tue Aug 23, 2016 8:55 am  

Big lads mate wrote:

No worse than the seasoned pro's, tackled ok , run it in OK but took a big hit in the 2nd half and came off, one for the not too distant future.

Thank you, I watched him closely on the England academy tour and thought he was excellent. Impressed me more than Leeds' highly rated Cameron Smith.