You’ll need to improve your performance somewhat.

It's those sorts of comments, unsurprisingly very similar to those made recently by certain Saints fans, that would make me laugh my c0ck off if Leeds lost.

To be fair he did say should and he didn`t say we would win it. He is referring to what are likely to be the favourites to get relegated so by rights it would be our easiest game compared to other teams we have played in the past.
We might still lose as these things happen.
Let`s face it didn`t we beat Castleford in the GF when they smashed the League last year

Until we know the make up of both teams it's pointless to make such statements. London beat Toronto, Toronto beat Leeds, ergo London are a better team than Leeds on paper.

If we play like we did this year we would probably struggle.
But with the clear out of the dross and some better signings I think we will be much better equipped to beat the likes of London (hopefully).
Put it this way I have more confidence in Furner as the coach than Sinfield sorry I mean Lowes!

I think we are also forgetting that we were not all that far off for the first part of the year, all our players haven't suddenly become rubbish, don't forget Warrington (and Catalans) were in the middle 8s last year and with a change of coach and a few layers they are in the GF.

For the last half of the year we have been dire no doubt but there's no reason why we can't see an upturn in performances which should see us in the top half of the table.

Sorry Christopher, but you are not correct there. We may well have been in a better league position, but we were still far off in the first half of the year. Even Hetherington had the grace to admit in that interview last week, that AT NO POINT in the season did we look close to the top teams. A couple of results doesn't change that. Hetherington quite rightly was talking about performance.

What this season highlighted, although it should have been seen much earlier, is that we do have some rubbish players. You are correct it hasn't happened overnight, they simply were not good enough before, but due to how good certain others were, this lack of ability was covered up.

Gotcha- you are wrong. For the first 3rd of the year we did look close to the top teams.we beat Saints and Warrington away from home and had narrow losses to Cas,Hull,Wigan and Warrington which really could have gone either way.the start of the rot for me was when we lost Watkins and got destroyed by Cas at Magic.

Sorry, but no you are wrong, we simply didn't. There is a difference between a scoreline/result, and a performance. Many teams win with poor performances, even championship winning teams, but consistently poor always ends in trouble. Hetherington was correct in what he said, we never were close this season at any point.

As I say Warrington and Catalan were at the bottom end last year, they added some players and in Warrington case a new coach, I think we need to see what the next few months bring and then see how we start the season, there is no reason why we can't be in the top half of the table next year competing for a place in the 5.

Oh I wasn't dissagreeing with you on that bit, not at all. Just purely on the bit about "not far off" early part of year.

result wise we weren’t far off, i agree with you about overal performance but to be honest I’m not that interested in looking back to the beginning of last year and less interested in looking into the back end, it’s done were in SL I want to forget about it all and hopefully we can see an improvement, Im wuite happy for a year of mid tableness as long as desire and performance improves