I'll say another top 4 finish, a decent run in the cup and a GF appearance.

The squad assembled is more than capable and have shown last season what they can achieve, I think the addition of Griffin & Kelly have improved us along with Jake Connor and Logan back from injury. If the squad can get the same metal attitude and togetherness they seemed to have last season with the changes in the squad then I think we have a very good chance of repeating last seasons showing.

Having a relatively injury free season is essential for any team to be successful but do believe that last seasons run was not just down to luck but the work done by the conditioning throughout the season.

If Kelly can turn up to play each week & put in the star performances he is capable of on a regular basis then it can only improve us, on the other side if he doesnt it could hampen our chances.

Think this season is a big season for the younger players such as Turgut, Fash, Matongo, Osbourne & Rawsthorne to stake a claim and make Radfords job of picking the 17 each week even harder.

I think we will finish top4, but a lot depends on Kelly being fit and in the right mood if we are going to challenge for a trophy. We need to him to give us new options as teams will have figured out our somewhat limited attacking plays.

Think it will be a close season though, there's no weak teams on paper, though I feel Catalan may struggle due to the high turnover of players theyve had, Fressenous surely wont be there much longer if they get off to a poor start.

YAAAAWN, except the set up and the way we were playing at the time wasn't what got us 3rd place and a cup win is it. Radford is the luckiest coach in RL.
My voice had nothing to do with dummies or prams, certainly your post has that in spadefuls though.

Yes Radford is very lucky, inherited a really poor value for money squad and had to work hard to fix the errors by Gentle and Mainly McRae, put the right team in place, sign the right players to give us our best season in 30 or so years, including doing something no other Gull coach has ever done.

We really should be in the top 4, squad is better than last year, but more attacking threat, if Kelly plays like he did in 2015, we will win something.

Fook me, RL fans' village idiot is back

I was one of Radfords biggest critics until about 6months ago, but 'luckiest coach in RL?' What you on about? He took an average side to the top4 and a Wembley win with some brilliant signings and a complete overhaul of the attitude of the sqaud amid heavy criticism from many fans, just admit that you (and me, and many others) got it wrong and move on.

Radders has got to maintain it now or better still get luckier.

You backed yourself into a corner regarding Radford and are now being disingenuous by describing him as lucky.
Man up like other posters have been humble enough to do, or are you hoping for a 2017 annus horribilis so that yo can say "told you so?"
Too late for that even for such a nauseous individual as yourself.
Fook off back under your rock.

I'm surmising he means Radford got lucky regarding the healthiness of our squad.
Then again, without being @rsed to trawl through his bitter posts, I'm sure he was slagging the club and our training methods off a couple of seasons ago when we weren't as fortunate.
Would be about par for the course from the numpty.

... I'm surprised he's still posting on here after accusing the club/AP of lying again.

Our back room staff are an exceptional bunch plus our squad are just double hard bar stewards, nothing to do with luck, Radders does everything himself you wouldn't believe the small things he takes care of, I don't believe any other coach at his level would do what he does.

Well his usual modus operandi is to fook off for a couple of days, make a low-key return with some insignificant boll0x, then blast himself in the foot when he can't contain his seething any longer.

I have backed Radford all season, I have congratulated him on what he has done/achieved this season. 18 months ago, I like many had had enough, we were just awful, the worst since under Agar so rightfully people were irked more than just a tad. Yet I still continued to come to the games because I love my club, I've never once said I would stop and yet because I put out a 'petition' which as I explained at the time was for myself and no-one else and I said sign it, don't sign it it was just my protest to the club that I wasn't happy with the way Radford was going about things.

My post about Radford being the luckiest coach in RL is a deliberate 'troll' post, I knew it would get the attention of some of the idiots on here that deliberately troll/attack posters by mentioning stuff from whenever in the past that has zero bearing on whichever thread it is on.
Much in the same way the previous posters decided to bring up the petition and me wanting to get Radord 'sacked', it's all too easy to write any old down and yet some posters get to write any old down regularly, deliberately antagonising, deliberately attacking posters and just making the forum unpleasant when you want to voice an opinion that doesn't match certain 'untouchables' whom can pretty much say what they like.
Do you understand why I've written what I have regarding LR after the previous two posts attacking me?

Don't call people idiots & maybe they won't have digs at you forever, the petition in your opinion was a way of venting anger possibly? But the toothless landlord come up trumps, like I and a few others knew he would.

Be top 4 but don't know postion.We have added a couple of strike players in Kelly and Griffin,who has impressed me everytime I saw him and he has a good pair of hands.As for Radford,I was calling for his head upto good Friday but saw a shift in the Easter Monday game when he outcoached Smith,would like him to shuffle the team a bit more and trust the fringe players to do a job,like Easter Monday.

Both Adam and Motu lied through their teeth last year with respect to Westerman and having cap space when he (AP) knew we had to release Westerman or be penalised for not being under he cap and MT when he said we had cap space after releasing Westerman which was also untrue. Pearson himself at the club meeting said we were at full cap which we already knew because the club itself said we couldn't sign Lee Smith, whom we would have got for pennies, due to the salary cap restrictions. That Pearson admitted latterly we were at full cap proved MT utterings to be false.
HTH

... not really, I was referring to your latest accusation. Quote ="knockersbumpMKII"I said a long while back that we'd need to shift a big name to make a named signing and I was right, just wish the club would stop being so cloak and daggers even deceitful about it.'" viewtopic.php?p=18471118#p18471118 In my humble opinion, no clubs will be at "full cap", as you keep on telling us, they'll have their own spending limits to allow for injuries, unforeseen circumstances, etc. Even as little as 5% below the RFL cap would leave £90k to play with, so maybe AP wasn't lying, just wanting to retain the "contingency fund" until later in the season if possible.

... not really, I was referring to your latest accusation. Quote ="knockersbumpMKII"I said a long while back that we'd need to shift a big name to make a named signing and I was right, just wish the club would stop being so cloak and daggers even deceitful about it.'" viewtopic.php?p=18471118#p18471118 In my humble opinion, no clubs will be at "full cap", as you keep on telling us, they'll have their own spending limits to allow for injuries, unforeseen circumstances, etc. Even as little as 5% below the RFL cap would leave £90k to play with, so maybe AP wasn't lying, just wanting to retain the "contingency fund" until later in the season if possible.

It still stands that AP said we would not be letting Westerman go knowing full well that we had to release him otherwise we would be over the cap. As I said, if that were untrue then why did the club release a statement saying we could not sign Smith due to the cap restrictions. Despite knowing all of this Motu Tony came out and said we had cap space when it was clear to all that we did not. The club statement regarding Smith confirmed this and also confirmed that Pearson had lied about Westerman.
It's pretty simple to follow.
The stupid thing is that most fans would not have being too bothered because he (westerman) had not had a great season, he did really well in 2014 then 2015 he seemed to struggle for whatever reason, personally think it was how we used him at times as another prop but why not say we've signed Manu, Pritchard, Fonua et al and we have to let Westerman go, It's business but instead it's BS straight up lies to the fans.

Anyway I still think we'll get top 4 if we play to our strengths and with Kelly having a good season we'll be there or thereabouts.

You're right bumpy, nobody is really bothered, especially when you don't understand which post you're responding to.

Yippee another thread turned into a cock waving excercise....
Certain posters (and they know who they are) need to grow up.

.... so what are your season predictions?

ugger it 1st,