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His Bobness wrote:There's a clear contrast between the ' let's ease into it and avoid injures' approach of Tony Smith's Hull FC and the ultra intense, start early and keep the foot to the floor philosophy of Rovers Wille Peters.
Tony is a nice bloke until you disagree with him but I feel he is a tad out of touch with the the modern ways of Rugby League.
His Bobness wrote:There's a clear contrast between the ' let's ease into it and avoid injures' approach of Tony Smith's Hull FC and the ultra intense, start early and keep the foot to the floor philosophy of Rovers Wille Peters.
Tony is a nice bloke until you disagree with him but I feel he is a tad out of touch with the the modern ways of Rugby League.
Joined: Aug 19 2011 Posts: 21621 Location: Across The Universe....... Jai guru deva om - Nothings gonna change my world.
Dave K. wrote:But all other SL teams have academy players they have invested in thr last few years.
But you guys have under achieved due to having a bad run of injuries. If lose 4/5 quality players due to injury, academy players won't fix that problem. We are only a quality middle and an outside back from being a really good team.
Joined: Mar 14 2003 Posts: 25637 Location: Back in Hull.
Cokey wrote:But you guys have under achieved due to having a bad run of injuries. If lose 4/5 quality players due to injury, academy players won't fix that problem. We are only a quality middle and an outside back from being a really good team.
We have been terrible, but still haven't come close to relegation in that time. Injuries have given gametime to the likes of Wynne, Brown and Laidlaw who can play SL fairly regularly.
You may think you are close to a really good side, but you can never know, your squad and coaches had no tests last year, let's see I the players are good enough for SL, before we start making big predictions. I think you will stay up, but only just and talk off being near the play offs are way off.
You are still way off at least 8/9 SL clubs squads IMO.
Joined: Aug 19 2011 Posts: 21621 Location: Across The Universe....... Jai guru deva om - Nothings gonna change my world.
Dave K. wrote:We have been terrible, but still haven't come close to relegation in that time. Injuries have given gametime to the likes of Wynne, Brown and Laidlaw who can play SL fairly regularly.
You may think you are close to a really good side, but you can never know, your squad and coaches had no tests last year, let's see I the players are good enough for SL, before we start making big predictions. I think you will stay up, but only just and talk off being near the play offs are way off.
You are still way off at least 8/9 SL clubs squads IMO.
I did say in an earlier post we would just escape relegation. We are doing everything we possibly can to build to become a top side. Promoted clubs have a massive disadvantage to stay in Superleague. If you've noticed, Leigh have done it different this time by recruiting Superleague standard players whilst in the championship, and have added a further 12 players to that. Of course that still doesn't mean we will be challenging for honours, but it gives us a better chance to build towards that. FWIW - Hull fc recruit well every season, and I always have them for the play offs. Unfortunately like I've already said, injuries have hampered you regularly. If injuries or suspensions are kind, I'm going for Hull fc to be in the play offs, and Leigh to finish around 8th/9th/10th position. Let's see how it goes, and best of luck to all teams, and a great feast of rugby throughout the season.
Joined: Mar 14 2003 Posts: 25637 Location: Back in Hull.
Cokey wrote:I did say in an earlier post we would just escape relegation. We are doing everything we possibly can to build to become a top side. Promoted clubs have a massive disadvantage to stay in Superleague. If you've noticed, Leigh have done it different this time by recruiting Superleague standard players whilst in the championship, and have added a further 12 players to that. Of course that still doesn't mean we will be challenging for honours, but it gives us a better chance to build towards that. FWIW - Hull fc recruit well every season, and I always have them for the play offs. Unfortunately like I've already said, injuries have hampered you regularly. If injuries or suspensions are kind, I'm going for Hull fc to be in the play offs, and Leigh to finish around 8th/9th/10th position. Let's see how it goes, and best of luck to all teams, and a great feast of rugby throughout the season.
Our recruitment for the last two years has been terrible. Our recruitment on paper looks good, total new spine though but lacking a bavkrower IMO, with some luck could get top 6, but think we will miss out. Spine of Hoy, Truman, Clifford and Dywer looks a world away from last season. Coaching is our biggest improvement but think it may take a season to challenge.
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