Recall that we finished that season with only 10 points, our lowest points total in the SL era, and quite possibly the lowest in our entire history?

The only goal we have in the remaining twenty games is to try to match that total, but I wouldn't put a single penny on it happening. It is impossible to back us in any game, and I include London away in that statement.

1999 was the most dispiriting campaign I've had to endure in my time watching the club, but this year is plumbing depths beyond even that traumatic season. Our only hope is to pray for divine intervention (unfortunately I'm strictly atheist!!).

More cards than Clintons, that lad.

Not won since August. 194 points shipped in four games. Not much to be said really.

Honestly think the club are done, won't e long until we are similar to Bradford, will only get worse, no money, so squad won't improve, many fans won't renew.

Great have these young players, but they will be picked off, for money or to play for a better side.

Can't see a way out or any positives right now, some young players, but they won't be here long if this continues and who can blame.

Don't even think it's down to the coach.

The tinkers culture plan

Sao should be sacked?
what about the tinker?

you could put just about anyone on this forum as head coach this seaon and they couldnt have done a worse job than Smith.
The players look like they are now trying to force him out

100% Wilf. I'm convinced AP is trying to claw back as much of his investment and will then bail. He lied to us all by stating we were spending up to the cap, when clearly we are not. 8k members bought that lie.

The kids won't save us, as talented as some of them are, they are probably two years away from SL starting spots. The seasons dead, can't see us winning five games.

Its depressing, I think back to 2016/17 and the Sydney trip, some of my best times supporting FC in 43 years, we have gone backwards every year since then. The ill discipline in the team on the pitch is dreadful and that comes from the coaching team. How on earth can you compete in a game with 12 men for 30 minutes?

I see nothing other than languishing in the lower reaches of Super League for the next few years until we lose our place to a club with ambitions.

In a desperate attempt to look for something (anything, however small) positive from yet another dispiriting afternoon:

The forwards (Ese and Pele particularly) did have moments when they ran with some vigour and purpose, looking like they meant it.
The energy level overall was better than in recent weeks, admittedly that is in comparison to displays which have veered close to comatose at various times over the past month!
We did show a touch more ambition in attack (if not exactly smooth and fluent) and, again, looked like we were at least half-interested in playing.

But even those minor aspects were cancelled out by a defensive display which in some ways was, if anything, even worse than the Leigh debacle! Utterly shambolic. We were all over the place on so many occasions with gaps so big you could have driven the proverbial three double-decker buses through them. Add to that some powder-puff tackling which wouldn't have stopped an under-nines team. We seem incapable of holding even the most basic of defensive lines, stuff that exists on page one of any RL coaching manual.

Sooner or later, at some point this year, we are going to meet a team (Wigan, Saints maybe) who don't put the cue on the rack at half-time, who don't spend the second forty minutes cruising along in first-gear, but who instead, relentlessly, remorselessly, keep going at full intensity for the full 80 minutes. In that instance, we will be staring at a 90+ point defeat with tries being scored against us every time the opposition have the ball.

One final point, about young Charles and Moy (poor lambs!). It was like watching a 15 year old with his younger 13 year old brother playing alongside him!! (they looked so small!!). They say police officers get younger, the older you get, but that's nothing on a bunch of rugby players who looked like they were waiting to go back to school on Monday after the Easter break!!

Highly valid.

We're all disappointed/frustrated because we want to compete at the upper-end.

Every club at the summit is owned by a fan/benefactor.

We have an owner that wants to profit from the club (which is absolutely fine and understandable) but S/L isn't that kind of sport.

Time to accept what we are and where we are with very little prospect for different.