Good luck mate you have a tidy little team building going on there, and a beautiful part of the country as well -probably my fav place there and the east coast

Thanks for that post matey and good luck for the rest of the season.

Agree with you but at the time it was awful to watch and we should /could have done alot more when you guys tired but like you said panic rugby,and that does not win you games,as for the knock-ons i hope they all got it out of their system in that game You cant help but feel disheartened after a performance like that though but after a day or two you get over it and onto the next game.By the way can i say how welcome my friends and me were made in the bar ,we only wanted a hot drink but they took us to sit with the diners

The forwards last week were some size and i know it must have taken its toll on our lads tackling them big beggers but we still managed to give them the runaround in the latter part of the game and thats when we should have put more points on the board but hey it did'nt happen so onwards and upwards

We are a team that got relegated last year after massively underperforming.
We have been underperforming since relegation (bar one good result in the Cup).
I would imagine Millward has been signed to try and stem the tide, we signed a player who is excellant for Public Relations and offers some experience to a vastly inexperienced squad.

It will take time and anyone expecting a play off tilt or a guarenteed cup final needs to perhaps lower expectations for now, there are far too many good well run & organised clubs in this division for us to 'overtake them' based primarily in signing 1 top class coach and 1 top class player.
Yes we may get lucky and get on a confidence roll and win the cup games (with a helluva lot of luck and work) but personally this season is for finishing higher than last and slowly rebuilding a club that is misfiring on & off the pitch and has been for a few years.

The encouraging thing for me Sunday was the amount of dropped ball / lack of concentration that can be worked on by the coaching team and things can be changed - we played awful, York played well, we lost by 1 point.
Last year that would have been a 40 point hammering as the team would have lost its way once things fell apart.

The club has sold the team to the public based on Millward and Paul and put bluntly neither are miracle workers (although Millward has previous of doing this ) and it will take time, the club itself though in the meantime has to start promoting matchdays and doing a lot more off field to increase attendances as I fear on field we may struggle to use that as a selling point until we get all our injured players back and the new ones gell in.

However lets not forget its very very early days, so lets look forward rather than back, yes sunday was poor , yes I question the wisdom of spending so much for little enjoyment , but it isn't all doom & gloom and hopefully the club and Basil and his team will slowly turn things around.

My opinion is we are a league higher. We lost.

Non relegation league is way ahead of the Championship. Championship is way ahead of championship 1.

We lost we were awfull. The fact remains' however well York played they beat us. Not good enough.

We're only a league higher by the grace of god though Frank. Or grace of god and the goodwill of the RFL anyway... We should be a Championship 1 side this year

Ah well, onwards and upwards?

True enough but we have a different salary cap than York.

but we was relegated because of a technicality Toulouse were in the relegation position. I never saw it as fair being relegated thanks to RFL we're not though cheers to the Gateshead thunders pants too

do not think you need hindsight to realise one we would miss watson, and two we are one if not the slowest team in our league.

Doesnt matter what I think, and hindsight is a wonderfull thing yet miss one of the best organisers in the championship? do me a favour

we've read it once thank you