The 96 side and this both plumb similar depths for me. If - if - we beat Salford, TO & TWP then I might be forced to conclude that this one's the shade better of the two. But only by a fanny hair.

The 96 side was in completely different circumstances to this, and as a result of that, this is really a worse team.

Also needed Dean bell to come out of retirement to beat Paris

Could we really see Sir Kev or burrow doing the same

It's like ''the good old days'' syndrome this, only in reverse

If you think this team is s*** then you can't have been around back in....

Could we really see Sir Kev or burrow doing the same

A one legged, half fit, half pace, Sinfield is still a million times better than Sutcliffe and would probably take us to the wins we need, even now.

Coming second in league many a time. Being turned over by the Pieeaters. Losing many semi finals. Only 1 Yorkshire cup success. However at least they did not give up with 20 minutes to go each week

Agreed

We had Mercer luckily return that year aswell who made a huge difference. Didn't we go through even more players that year than this?

In agree. Thompson's defence is woeful with high numbers of missed tackles. In both games that Smith and Thompson have played together Smith had a much higher work rate per minute and made 1 missed tackle compared with 19 from Thompson

Sinfield rated JJB as our best forward against Widnes!

He had no choice given our serious injury crisis and Sinfield has reported he is having to do the same!

He probably was, not saying much though is it.

Well it indicates he should not be written off quite so quickly. Some posters seem to have forgotten his big efforts in the first part of the season when we had no props and we had only lost 2 games in the first third of matches despite the injuries. Before his injury we were only losing games by a couple of points with the very odd exception.