Las season the team was better than the sum of it's parts. This season it is worse. It's just the fact that we have players with individual skills better than the oppositions that is allowing us to scrape wins. As has been said before we are full-time, most of our opposition is part time. We should be battering them. What are we doing in training? We should be fitter than all the part time teams like we were last season. How many times last season was it close at half time, then we ran away with it in the second half? This season it's the part time teams that are coming back in the second half looking fitter and better motivated. As it stands at the moment, I have a better chance of becoming the next King of England than we do of getting to SL. In agreement with the title of this thread, with the money we have spent this season - this is no where near good enough.

I would be surprised if we got promoted. Decent pack but our backline is so slow without McNally and Brierley.

Saying that, we will probably do well as we do not have the expectation of last season

Just watched Centurions TV Chatback.

The lads think we will have a tough game against Oldham a week Sunday so what must they think of our chances in the middle 8's.

We need to improve significantly and I think a week off for our players will help.

Like every other Leyther I am hoping our team kick on and improve their performance significantly in the next few weeks.

Right nowt left to supp so am off to bed.

Touching on what was posted earlier in the thread does anyone think we are not showing our hand (so to speak)?.All coaches review opponents games/videos prior to playing them and lets be honest we haven't exactly been in sparkling form have we. Are we deliberately just doing enough to scrape a win. Myself i think not as in my opinion it's to risky because we wont know if we can play a higher standard under pressure until we consistently try too then do our own reviews on what was good / bad & needs adjustment. Also what is it with injuries this season, not just us & not just our league.

Quite. I think we aren't showing our full hand and this could see us come a cropper in our next 3 fixtures, so maybe now is the time to pick it up.

And maybe we will, if that is the tactic.

Think it's clear that the gap between the leagues is bigger this year, if only mostly because Wakefield have improved so much & us & Bradford aren't comprehensively sweeping away all before us. However all hope is not lost. We've seen how well we can play, if only in 10/15 min spells, if we can play like that for the full 80 we'll stand a very good chance. It's looking likely that the £1,000,000 game is how it needs to be done, to get there all we have to do is beat all the championship teams, we can do that as we're top of the league (think we'll need to stay there though, with London chasing us 1st gives you a big advantage in not having to travel down to London).