hkrdavidhkr wrote:neither hull team are good enough to be considered a top team as both are still far too inconsistent, i`m just not too blinkered to not see this.both teams need to improve massively if they want to be considered a top team.
And there we have it. The issue for both teams IMO is that I think that Wigan and Warrington and really stretching ahead of the opposition (money talks - Lenegan and Moran are in a different league financially to other backers and both now have top class coaches in place), and with Leeds not far behind our chances of winning anything would have to seem remote without a spectacularly lucky Challenge Cup draw.
FC are financially self-sustaining now but we choose not spend on a top class coach and have a random and short termist recruitment policy - our academy is OK but recruitment in the open market has been poor for 5 years. We have an opportunity to sort a lot of this out next year as we have all our quota players OOC apart from O'Meley who's been a great signing anyway, but I'd like to bet now it will be a disappointment.
Rovers IMO have done fantastically well to get to where they are, which is pretty much the same position as FC on the pitch. Whether you can kick on to genuinely challenge the top 3 teams on a consistent basis and win some trophies is more debatable.
So the reality at present is that all we have to play for is a derby double.
