5th is the new 1st, just giving the others a chance, hey and our yoof won the league at 18's today crushing more super league opposition.

Makes up for the first team.

Dont worry the Hurricane will be coming to a stadium near you next year!

Up the Vikings

I shall be attending next week too, ill be sat near the dugout.

Who cares as long as we win the GF next week.
Yer we will have to be prepared to lose some good players but like I say win the GF and we can live off that for a few years, come on we have won nowt since???

At least like last year the 2 best teams in the comp are competing the GF... Ok one of those teams is head and shoulders above the rest of the league but it is a much better spectacle when it is the best two teams... Plus with finals anything can happen and everything becomes a little more even!

How about we enjoy the Grand Final then start looking into next season?

2 Grand Finals in 2 years, am sure there will be planty of players that would love to play for us.

The players we have lost Shad to the Bulls. IF the rumours are right Branno and Patts to Widnes, both of those clubs are going to be in Super League which you cant really deny players a chance at Super League.

am confident we can get some good players in who work hard next season.

but like people have said lets just concentrate on the Grand Final

Congratulations but really? This makes up for the first team? Wow. So you watched more youth games than first team games? I'll tell you what VM, as soon as you're in SL you'll drop your obsession with "yoof" in your threads - I guarantee it.

As for the Championship next year - big changes at the top I reckon. Widnes will have to fare much better to stave off the embarrassing "promotion for nothing" spectre whilst Halifax may struggle to gel a new team together. I think Fev will still be hanging around - as will Leigh.

The grand final next week is reward for yet another hard season from the lads. My only regret for the club is that we haven't managed to significantly increase our fan base which will probably explain the reasons why changes are afoot for next year. This squad deserves better because they couldn't have entertained more over the last two years.

fair analysis that Rich. Under current fiscal climes I can't see Fev being too adventurous, tho looking at our nearest competitors I think you're spot on - not cos of any great fev advancement - (I reckon a season of consolodation, i.e. stick rather than twist for fev), but as a result of Barrow, Fax re-visiting their business plan and Widnes not spending what they don't need to ensurng they have max buying power for SL!

On the playing front, I will still maintain there are some big big earners in our league who are going to have to accept they are NOT exempt from the fact there is no @rse left in the worlds finances and that if they want a contract in this league they may well have to -re-dfine their own wage demands!! - and not afoore time!!!

My analysis of Widnes' season next year has changed somewhat given their current signings. I thought they'd be in for a season of mediocrity but in fact they're signing players on 1 year contacts with an option for a second which basically means they'll be playing for Super League contacts if nothing more. Smart move.

I thought your good buddie would have told you who has signed?

On the signings so far i gotta say i am a little worried where we are headed next season. Hopefully we can keep the majority of this team together.

Gleeson off to Widnes, White off to Fev and Brannigan to Toulouse, what's happening at Fax?

white off to fev??????????




my @rse!

.... and Ian Millward off to Rochdale!

See how easy it is to start a rumour?

It's that time of the year again when we we have to listen to the total crap spouted by people "in the know" and 90% of it usually turns out to be total bollox. So far we have lost Shad, I'll believe the rest as and when it is announced.

exactly!

Of course not, no one ever does, especially the time to do it in the lead up to the Grand Final, well done you

I seem to remember it was fairly late last year when we finally got everyone on board. Who would have predicted Shad to Odsal? Let's just wait an see.