To put the season in context.

Quote: charlie caroli "After attending the Fax v Leigh earlier in the season , I was very impressed with your Hospitality and the way your Sponsers are treated , along with the Facilities you have , they are definatly a match for what Leigh have on offer .Your ground and Fans are for me Superior to Fevs , maybe Karl has got some things wrong this season , but you are still in the mix , maybe not as favorites , I think the season may be a disappointment to you , but its not all been bad , personally I think if you show maybe around 6 of your current squad the door at the end of the season and recruit well you could still challenge for the Top 4 next year , obviously it wont be easy , but it wont be easy for anybody .

As you Faxers know I like Fax and want to see you challenging Fev , hopefully we will meet in this years GF , and stage a great game at Leeds , and then make plans for next season .Keep the Fax faith .
Charlie, what's wrong with a Fax v Fev Final? Leigh still have to get the monkey of their back and win a couple of play-off games to get to the final

Seriously I see where you are coming from, in that you can argue that Fax haven't had a bad year, but I can feel the frustration coming out of the Fax camp too. I don't believe KH is a bad coach, but I also don't think he is a great coach. He did an okay at Salford on limited resources and a greadt job at Batley on imited resources (resources relative to the teams around him). And maybe this is the issue at Fax he came to a team that had relatively more resources (3 years ago) than the other teams around him, but he has been unable to take the team forward from that position, where as DP & PR have done that at Fev and Leigh. If you think that Fax are underdogs next year than maybe he is the man to take Fax forwards, but it is difficult to see how that will happen if he has lost the support of the fans.

For me I hope that Fax can turn the corner either with or without KH and that Fev can also steady the ship so that next year all three clubs (Leigh/FaxFev) are compeating and winning that middle 8. How great it would be if we could get the 1st 3 places in the middle 8 and see the likes of Bradford/London/Widnes/Wakefield, etc. having to play in a 4v5 game to be the last team to make up SL in 2016.

Roll on next year (not that this one is done yet).