I sincerely hope we welcome Widnes to SL by battering them on their stupid plastic grass.

Pow - take that Eddie and Stevo!

its only the same as your fans saying were a weak side whats that based on .all im saying has your side improved that much that its 70 pts better than last season i think you will beat widnes and hope you beat hull just to see how they blame agar for it seen as he still getting the blame for everything at hull

If you want a thread full of people convinced that we'll be an easy two points, can I direct you back to the HKR board, where I'm sure there'll be at least one or two; we're doing optimism here, so you won't get what you're looking for.

P.S You appear to have the least accurate user name on the whole RLFans network.

Are we not talking about the game to be played at Belle Vue? What was the equivilant result last season?

Mate it was one fan that said that and that fan comes with a bit of form when it comes to these types of things. Saying that we did beat you at our place last year, even with the shower we had playing for us last year.
This year I would hope with the improvements we have made to squad, we will be competing with the like of Hull KR as well as other sides like Bradford but we'll have to wait and see how all the new players gel together.

why

i take your point belle vue has been a bit of bogey ground for us in recent seasons good luck for the season

I don't think anyone is saying kr will be a walkover but the playing fields have been more evened up with our stability and recruitment much improved on 2010.

Because you're no fun at all.

HTH.

iknow i suppose its been a bit of a rollercoaster ride for you lot when you were expected to be kicked out of SL players leaving and all that i think youve recruited well a lot better team on paper than some clubs

and you seem to be the life and soul of the party

It has been a rollercoaster for sure! We have recruited well enough to challenge for mid table which I would be happy with. Last year youth featured heavily, some of which were ready ( Johnson, Moriano, Wildie) some of which didn't cut it. We have kept the success stories and signed players who can challenge in the mid levels of SL.

We are still a work in progress but we will be more of a challenge for most teams this year. I'd like to think we will be around mid table with kr, hull and cas next year.

I think Salford have more to worry about this coming season. Coaching unrest, thin squad. I hope they get it together for their fans sake.

widnes or salford to finish bottom for me

Leeds, Saints and Wire to make up the top three. I think Leeds will start well. I wonder whether 2011 was Wire's year and they blew it. Might be hard to maintain the momentum like this year when they ended finishing like they did. Saints kids will be a year older, and they'll be back in 'Tellins.

Between Wigan and Huddersfield for fourth, because I wonder whether Wane is more of a very good assistant than an astute head coach.

Hull sixth and Catalan seventh.

The last one of the top eight between Hull KR, us and Cas, and it will all boil down to which of the new coaches cuts the mustard. I fancy Agar to do best, because he has started with a cleaner sheet, whereas the others are taking on complete squads but might want to do different things.

Bradford for more of the same, then Widnes. Quins and Salford for bottom spot.

I feel most sorry for Salford, because next year should be the year they really kick on, with all the momentum of a new ground. It seems like right now they are going to blow the opportunity, and so will they ever recover from it? No sugar daddy and a permanent crowd of 3,000. Not good.

Let's hope so - should have gotten some momentum from that to go in against Widnes

i agree with most of that except i think we will finish higher than 8th i think huddersfield have peaked the same with wire i hope agar does ok for you hull fans seem to have blamed him for everything so he has a lot to prove

This [i'stupid plastic grass'[/i could help make clubs like Widnes and Wakey viable in their own right, as opposed to needing a [i'Sugar Daddy'.[/i

So, instead of ridiculing it, pray it is successful for the sake of the game itself. RL fans can't afford to be too fussy, by poo pooing what could turn out to be a lucrative form of year-round income for us all.

Good luck for the new season, by the way

I wouldn't take that bren2k's silly comments, or yourself, too seriously if I were you.

I think it's great that you're being set up as sacrificial lambs for the revitalised Wakefield Trinity and that it'll be on Sky for all to see; bring it on!

That's the spirit

wake up. Its not plastic grass, this isn't Loftus road in the ninties. Secondly why do you think Eddie and stevo will be buzzing off us? The first time anyone gets injured on our pitch Eddie will bitch like a mighty mother lover, nonstop untill the season ends, blaming anything and everything on the pitch. Just you watch, it won't take long for his anti widnes streak to shine through.

I refer the right honourable gentleman to my previous response.

Revitalised? Here was me thinking you'd just gone back to dumping young kids for past it NRL reserves

Rome wasn't built in a day!

Looks like we've 'dumped' a load of players who weren't up to the job - I don't feel especially super about the volume of our overseas recruitment as a result, but given that we were many months behind everyone else (especially you lot, which is another story altogether) I guess we've done what we had to do.

Over the 3 years, I'd expect us to be tonking you with an increasing number of homegrown players.

not far off the mark and we have with the U14s have a player that is a liken to Sam Tomkins in his attitude to winning and skill
I hope the lad will sign for us but there is some big clubs sniffing around and he is a rhino's supporter

time will tell