Hope you dont mind old bean

I think that would be a sensible idea.

True, but you need to remember what kind of squad FC inherited and how little time he had to secure some new faces. Elliott leaving mid-season didn't help either. I know those all sound like excuses, but they are legitimate reasons imo.
At the start of the season pretty much every poster on these forums highlighted how small our pack looked after losing Kopczak, Burgess and Hargreaves and replacing them with Sidlow and Evans. We all said that we would struggle against teams with decent packs, and that when the injuries came about we would be stretched to our limits.
This is exactly what happened.

In all honesty, with a bigger squad I think we would have made the eight.
Our signings for next season (so far) seem to be filling the holes that are most obvious - Carvell and Ferguson are great additions.
I'm still a bit weary about our backs - particularly the centres - but let's just see who else FC is bringing in before forming an opinion on 2014.

Usual bollox. last season we did not finish the season. And that was having (so the argument goes) overspent money on the team; which money the new broom has been compelled to underspend. We would have folded, and all results been expunged. It was only due to OK Bulls taking over that we completed our fixtures.

This season, we will finish the season without going tits. To me, that is a whole lot better than where we were this time last year, under Mr. Gilfoyle.

Fair points FA; the big picture is far more than just what happens on the field, though I guess Eddie won't be on his own in looking chiefly at the results.

One thing, we've demonstrated that we can still finish 9th on haqlf the money.

Now we need to do it again. 9th would actually do next season when you think what's at stake.