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Re: Is our pack good enough? : Sun Jan 21, 2018 12:00 pm  
Just goes to show the importance of an intermediate open age reserve level. Nobody can expect kids to be big enough to go straight into super league.
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Re: Is our pack good enough? : Sun Jan 21, 2018 3:47 pm  
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Bloody Hell its all doom and gloom.

We're all doomed I tell ya, doooooomed!


its not doom and gloom..we will be better than last year (not too difficult)..BUT we have to have realistic levels of expectation....otherwise the new coach and the team will be put under too much pressure based on unrealistic expectations.

I expect a top 6-8 finish and a decent cup run....more than that is a bonus IMO....we are building again....heading in the right direction....but I really don't expect us to make the top 4 or a final....because we are still short of enough top class players to achieve that IMO. Hope i am wrong.
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Re: Is our pack good enough? : Sun Jan 21, 2018 3:59 pm  
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its not doom and gloom..we will be better than last year (not too difficult)..BUT we have to have realistic levels of expectation....otherwise the new coach and the team will be put under too much pressure based on unrealistic expectations.

I expect a top 6-8 finish and a decent cup run....more than that is a bonus IMO....we are building again....heading in the right direction....but I really don't expect us to make the top 4 or a final....because we are still short of enough top class players to achieve that IMO. Hope i am wrong.

"6-8"....
So you're happy if we get one more point than last year and "everything else is a bonus"..?

Ok ... I'm out...but I agree I hope you're wrong.
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Re: Is our pack good enough? : Sun Jan 21, 2018 4:03 pm  
It's not doom n gloom its maybe a bit like 2009. .... not good enough to win the big prize and we may finish midtable. But with a new coach and still a smattering of quality players we could get to Wembley.....
I expect nothing better because we are a hooker a good prop and a good winger short.

If Price wins a trophy with this team he will have already done infinitely better than Tony Smith.
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Re: Is our pack good enough? : Sun Jan 21, 2018 4:32 pm  
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"6-8"....
So you're happy if we get one more point than last year and "everything else is a bonus"..?

Ok ... I'm out...but I agree I hope you're wrong.



Rubber, there is a difference between being happy with mid table and expecting it. There was a lot wrong at the Wire and it had been brewing for a while. It will take time to fix that due to hysteresis.
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Re: Is our pack good enough? : Sun Jan 21, 2018 4:48 pm  
Hysteresis. Now there's a word that you don't see very often on a RL forum.
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Re: Is our pack good enough? : Sun Jan 21, 2018 4:55 pm  
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Rubber, there is a difference between being happy with mid table and expecting it. There was a lot wrong at the Wire and it had been brewing for a while. It will take time to fix that due to hysteresis.

Woah Woah Woah


We finished 9th one point off 8th and I'm reading posters are happy to finish 8th!

Go away with you all. I've never read such tripe. If I was Simon Middleton and SJM I'd be kicking in my front door, back door, the shed door and the cat from next door with frustration if we improved nothing more that a point and 8th over 9th!!!!
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Re: Is our pack good enough? : Sun Jan 21, 2018 6:25 pm  
People are judging our squad (and our chances) by 2011 standards. No team has two quality hookers these days....no team certainly has our replacement forwards from 2011, no team has a pair of outstanding centres or wingers either. Ideally we could certainly do with a nasty prop and a few other tweaks....but we're in a fairly low grade horse race with a pretty decent horse, top 3 is EASILY achievable.
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Re: Is our pack good enough? : Sun Jan 21, 2018 6:41 pm  
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People are judging our squad (and our chances) by 2011 standards. No team has two quality hookers these days....no team certainly has our replacement forwards from 2011, no team has a pair of outstanding centres or wingers either. Ideally we could certainly do with a nasty prop and a few other tweaks....but we're in a fairly low grade horse race with a pretty decent horse, top 3 is EASILY achievable.


Agree with all of that, rf
imo, SL is at an all time low in terms of quality. We have Champions which were easily taken apart at the HJ last season, as well as other places. A Saints side which blows hot and cold. A Wigan side with just held on to 8th place, an over achieving Wakey, Cas, despite playing great rugby for 6 months, ran on empty at the end of the season. Hudds, well, they are what they are. Salford will win 5 on the bounce again, proclaim themselves as big players again, and then struggle to beat St Winifred's School Choir. Hull will just be Hull.

Let's not get all "we're not worthy" simply because we had a 5h1te 2017.
Get off to a good start, and anything is possible.

We have a LOT of players on (I assume) very good contracts who DID NOT deliver, last year. IF these players pull their fingers out, anything is possible.

I believe we have shortcomings in our side. So does everyone else.
No reason why we should set low targets.

AIM HIGH.
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Re: Is our pack good enough? : Sun Jan 21, 2018 7:09 pm  
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Agree with all of that, rf
imo, SL is at an all time low in terms of quality. We have Champions which were easily taken apart at the HJ last season, as well as other places. A Saints side which blows hot and cold. A Wigan side with just held on to 8th place, an over achieving Wakey, Cas, despite playing great rugby for 6 months, ran on empty at the end of the season. Hudds, well, they are what they are. Salford will win 5 on the bounce again, proclaim themselves as big players again, and then struggle to beat St Winifred's School Choir. Hull will just be Hull.

Let's not get all "we're not worthy" simply because we had a 5h1te 2017.
Get off to a good start, and anything is possible.

We have a LOT of players on (I assume) very good contracts who DID NOT deliver, last year. IF these players pull their fingers out, anything is possible.

I believe we have shortcomings in our side. So does everyone else.
No reason why we should set low targets.

AIM HIGH.

Agreed.
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