We've played four games.

The NRL premiers, a fully-fit Warrington with a point to prove and two aways where lots of top sides come acropper.

We're also missing 8 players, including our captain and lead playmaker.

And dealing with the retirement of two of our key leaders and handing over of the stand off's shirt to someone barely out of the academy, who is himself coming back from a long term injury.

While results are disappointing they should not be surprising. We have been in much worse situations - such as 2010, where we started with a better team than won the double the previous year and had an appalling start. That year we still made the CC final and the playoff semis.

And we have a coach who has 7 trophies in 5 seasons at the club, and has a track record of turning bad early seasons into trophies.

Finally, though we haven't won the last two games have seen vast improvements in performance.

So keep calm, we will turn the corner but it will take time to climb up the table to where we should be. In the meantime, we're developing a squad and allowing the likes of Sutcliffe, Lilley, Singleton and Walters time to get used to being the main men in the team - something they'll need for years to come.

Why do you think that wakey will be an easy game if you watched them last night they deserved the 2 points

If it had only been Leeds you would have a point but it wasn't - the team that won the competition had as bad if not worse injury situation than Leeds. As did Castleford, as did Warrington.

For you it was one of a number of excuses for 2016 - many of which were self inflicted by the club's inability to strategically plan and cope under pressure.

Self inflicted:
The game against the Kiwis
The shorter pre-season
The inability to protect their training facilities
The inability to replace Sinfield & Peacock

Inability to react
When the flood happened it took ages to get proper training facilities
Playing injured players to get wins early
Bizarre coaching decisions
Keeping over the hill players and coach too long

The obsession people have with my previous posts is alarming.

Seems that way doesn't it? I wonder who will be the saviour pished off NRL badly needed pivot in the relegation play offs this year?