I would be surprised if we avoid the drop with the signings made

Dewsbury went down and Whitehaven and this is where we have recruited from and let the better players leave,

So yes plenty to get excited about watching us get battered each week. Unless we bring in a load of wire reserves the writing is on the wall

This is going to be a long couple of months with all the doom and gloom merchants already sounding off. As always we the great unwashed are always like mushrooms ( kept in the dark).Let the coaching staff do their job, and whoever is left on the board do theirs and be a little more positive about things. ( by that I don’t mean positive we are going down) . You never know what’s around the corner, and the BoD will not say, Maybe there is a money man being lined up ( it is Christmas season, we can wish) With what’s going on generally lots of clubs and their supporters will have the similar thoughts. It will only take one bank manager to be ruthless for one club and the whole sport could fold like a pack of cards.

The signings may have been from the relegated clubs, but they seem to be their best players, in particular McCarron. We'll see.

Trying to put a positive spin on it , we still have a quality spine with woody, jouffret, hansen , obrien. inman . A couple of the older forwards have been moved on and Douglas and calcott are top championship forwards , macarron has high praise from many onlookers , the jury's out on the dewsbury lads with brad graham probably having the most potential. The backline needs some work in my opinion with size speed and aggression needed in the centres .

Which better players have we let leave? We have had two very poor seasons which those players that have left contributed to. We needed a massive clear out and we are at last seeeing that although I still think it needed to start at least a couple of years back. As LU says we have a number of quality players in key positions especially 1,6, and 9. We have 2 top quality props to come back in to the team which will be like having 2 new signings as long as they are fit.

I am not sure what some people were expecting, we clearly have no money, we owe the tax man, we have not paid rent for months, so taking that in to account I think our signings so far have been quite positive. Richard Marshall will look after us I am sure with who we get from Warrington and personally I feel a lot more positive about the upcoming season than I did about last season.