We've had since the start of SL?
I'm struggling to think of a weaker one.
Ageing slow FB
3/4'S with very little pace or guille
HB pairing that has a SO who's had all the confidence he was building in 2001,knocked out if him by Rush in 2012,a SH who can only pass 1 way,and in reality is a FB.
A forward pack that is full of 2nd rowers,it says something when the only genuine TRUE prop we have is Josh Perry.
Recruitment has been awful for the last 3/4 years Perry,Hohihia,Turner and even Manu ffs he's in twilight of his career.
Admittedly if you look at the 2006 GF winning side replacing players of the calbre of that squad would be very very hard,but when you replace the likes of Gidley,Lyon and even Shenton with Turner jeez we have serious problems.I'd also love to know which plonker it was that signed Lance(jack of all trades certainly master of none)and the even bigger plonker that gave him a 4 year deal.
3 games in we've been totally blown of the park by Hudds,fortunate to beat a poor Widnes side(look at todays score against an average Bobbins side)we only scored when they were down to 11,and drawing to a Hull (missing a few of their star players)who in the last 15 minutes were far the better team.
Sorry to say this but top 4 i think will be out of our reach this season infact 6th might be the best we can hope for.

Hope i'm wrong btw COYS

Just before the start of the season there was a lot of talk about how you had the best pack in superleague. Amazing how 3 games in it suddenly isn't good enough.

You guys said this last year when you were poor at our ground and that was 7 games in. You picked up after that and finished 3rd. You'll be fine

The squad of present players remind me of some of the team we had in the 80,s think we struggled for decent backs then and we ended up with a certain "Tricky Trindall". Looking more and more like a mid table team, we overachieved last year which covered the cracks.

Tricky Trindall played for us in either '99 or 2000.
He was also a very good player, just an , a poor proffessional and a little injury prone.

I think we have some very good players in our squad. It could be better, but there's a salary cap these days.

Given he's only made 12 posts, I assume that wasn't from him.

We've got a pretty good squad. Once we got Brown on board, a few people (including myself) have fancied us to do well.
We've playe poorly so far, but have improved slightly each week. Only time will tell....

If packs played on paper we probably would have the best one in the league , sadly for us they need to man up on the field and justify the hype

We had a worse squad last year.

I think it's just a matter of time. We have been slow starters since Anderson left and actually before he got here we where never off the mark at a million miles an hour.

I'm hoping to get to the Bradford game and see an improved performance again.

If we keep getting better week on week then, we will be in the mix at the right end of the season. I reckon we have 5-6 games to get some form and then people will be rightly asking whether we should try to re-sign Gaskell or let him go for someone else.

He needs time and I'm happy to wait, but with (rumours thread) Lance and TP possibly on the move, then that would leave some big cash available. Tim Smith prehaps???

Yes please!!!!!!!

Tim Smith has had his chance at a club at the top end of the table and failed to convince, mainly because of his atrocious defence.

I do conceed, however, that with any player, not least one who's had such documented troubles personally, that they can improve on any percived weakness.

The current squad is as good in pure comparative terms as almost any other we have had in the last 15 years. We have merely sunk in quality at the same rate as everyone else.

The kneejerking! It burns! It burns!

I remember going to visit Dux when he was wokring over in Belfast - it must've been royce's first season.
We were watching a game from the year before and the side that Potter had to field was very weak, partly because of our squad and partly because of injuries, but we still managed to beat an accomplished huddersfield side.

Things always seem worse when we've just come off a bad result.
I remeber wondering, after Hull had bullied us out of the CC in 2005 and then beat us at home in 2006 with a Paul Cooke drop goal, whether our side had the balls to win anything. We went on to win everything.

Now, I'm not suggesting that's what going othappen this year, but there's no need throw the baby out with the bath water.

We can play all the right notes, just not necessarily in the correct order at the moment.

Wow, three games in and RedVee panic has spread over here.