Hope you're right chaps.
The demographic I see is not a particularly young one.
Maybe it's just my old eyes deceiving me....

Ladies baring fruit? Freudian slip there mate have you been thinking about those cheerleaders again?

Kids dont care as much about the results and performance, I started going to Headingley when i was 11 and I just loved the atmosphere and the occasion, thats what got me hooked.

Give over, you.

I hope you're right, but that would need the kids to come on very very quickly as I don't expect us to bring in enough signings of enough quality (and the appropriate coaching) to get us there without them.

Let's see.

Obviously sport is cyclical peaks and troughs and all that. It would be pretty boring if we won the grand final every year, however I would expect a club as big as Leeds to be in the top four every year. Sadly our downward spiral continues ,bargain basement signings like olpherts and Hooley are the barometer of smith’s ambitions. You missed my point regarding saints, which was they took approximately 18 months to assemble a decent side with a competent coach. What had happened previously to that situation didn’t alter the fact they turned the club around in a relatively short space of time.
I note you think it will be 2025 season before we are back in contention, I sincerely hope you are right and reluctantly I would accept that scenario.
Unfortunately unless we come up with some intelligent signings ,that prospect seems light years away.

That’s clearly nonsense isn’t it.

Still plenty of work to do on the squad for 2024 but we’re gonna need some luck too.

We could sign Nathan Cleary. OK we’re gonna win the title then. He breaks a leg in 2 places in a pre-season friendly. Now not going to win the title.

Or our competitors get injuries to key players which weakens them and strengthens our chances.

This whole sport thing is an inexact science of risks and probabilities, as much as some of you like to control. You can’t and neither can GH or RS.

I do think we are on the upward cycle now and we should be competing for trophies I think from 2024; big “if” is who else we sign, how some players recover from injury, how pre/season goes, how young players develop over the next 3-4 months, etc.

Your lack of rugby knowledge is becoming more apparent with each posting.

Deary me.