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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 10:15 pm 
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Kosh wrote:I'm looking forward to the season. It just about has to be better than last year, after all. :)


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WormInHand wrote:I agree Dykes was a better Scrum Half than Thorman - when he played we won when he didn't we lost, simple as. But it's all very well having a better SH if he plays but poor Dyksey sadly couldn't. So given that Thorman will start every match hopefully with Horne I'd say we are, on balance, potentially better off in the halves than last year given last year's injuries there, particularly as it frees up Berrigan to play consistently at hooker. (Of course, if Dykes and Horne had played every match with Berro at hooker than who knows where we'd have been last year?)

I've already stated Carvell is a loss - yes you're right a huge one - but Crocker is here, Kingy is fit (played great last year until injured), Whiting (most exciting and underrated player IMO) is back, and we've yet to judge Maloney.

Plus who knows yet who Father Christmas forgot to leave and whose arrival may be imminent?

So lots to be positive about, so I'll stay that way until there's a need to be otherwise.


Can't comment on the rest of the season (well, not without looking into it), but that generally wasnt the case against rovers! :?

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Kosh wrote: and we haven't improved our backline noticeably.




WormInHand wrote:
but Crocker is here, Kingy is fit (played great last year until injured), Whiting (most exciting and underrated player IMO) is back,



Kosh wrote:
Our second row is not the problem.


OOOPs, read backline as backROW hence the justification :oops:

Still think Santa may deposit the answer though :wink:






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GJB wrote:Can't comment on the rest of the season (well, not without looking into it), but that generally wasnt the case against rovers! :?


Ok - the games we did win he played in (generally) :)






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fc baldy wrote:No $hit sherlock..........in 35 years of watching the game i didnt know that was what the tackle was about.
Well what was the point of you claiming you didnt understand what i meant then :?

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Saints
Catalans
Warrington
Wigan
Bradford
Huddersfield
Hull KR
Hull FC
Castleford
Wakefield
Harlequins
Salford
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Optimism is a great thing to have, even better if it's blind but I just cannot be positive about the coming season. Some people are talking as if our squad last year was full of quality and capable of greatness before the injuries hit. It wasn't ! It was a squad that still lacked quality in crucial areas and still had it's inadequacies that had not been addressed season after season.

Had we gone through the season with average injuries, IMO we would have finished around 6th or 7th and many of the pundits had us exactly there in the pre-season build up.

Since then we have some key players back like Horne and Whiting, fit and raring to go (hopefully) but we still lack real quality in crucial areas and our squad just doesn't match up when compared to the better squads in SL.

Last season we lacked a big no-nonsense prop, we still haven't got one and now we've lost our best one to add to that.

Last season we had serious doubts about our halfbacks (especially SH) and serious worries about the prospect of Tommmy Lee finding his way back into the halves. Nothing has changed there.

Last season we lacked pace and strike in the backline and although IMO Calderwood is a good signing, we still have a very worring gap in the centre spot inside him.

Crocker will hopefully turn out to be a fantastic signing but for me, the backrow wasn't really an area that needed much attention. In an ideal world, I would have liked to see Radford somehow encouraged to go elsewhere and replaced with a second rower more in the Lee Gilmour mould.

In general our squad doesn't look any stronger to me but I think we should have a stronger starting 17 most weeks and therefore should finish a little higher up the table. Before any aspirations of top two though, I think we need to see maybe 5 or 6 players out and 4 or 5 coming the other way.






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The Hollywood Frasier wrote:Well what was the point of you claiming you didnt understand what i meant then :?



Well why did you say it the Aussie way to start with........the Aussie league isnt the Bee's Knees of everything you know.






“We will not accept a top eight finish as a barometer of supposed success at any point in the future whilst I am the owner of this club.

Thats why you got the Bullet Agar...Adam Pearson wants winners...not useless gits like you.

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carl_spackler wrote:Leeds
Saints
Catalans
Warrington
Wigan
Bradford
Huddersfield
Hull KR
Hull FC
Castleford
Wakefield
Harlequins
Salford
Celtic

I think Catalans will do well but cant see them finishing 3rd again i reckon either 5th or 6th






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A tackle is a tackle :lol: Awsome.

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