Sorry it got like that Hear Ye!, I normally ignore the drivel but when fans are being criticised for actually going to watch the team play I didn't feel I could let that go.

If all the fans stop going that really will be it. Let's face it we're not the first club to be in bother, the history of RL is littered with examples and there is a common thread throughout that history. While players, coaches, management, shareholders, owners, all come and go, it's always the die hard fans who stick around even when it looks like a lost cause.

To answer the OP, of course there is a way back, whether we find it is another question.

I believe we will have as good a forward pack as any in the competition next season with two six foot two brick outhouses packing down with a 17 stone Hooker and a very good loose forward in Harrison. I'm sure we'll find a few more big lads to pack down - Lovell and McMeeken would be ok - and the days of being pushed around will be over.

With the pack alone, I'm confident of at least a top six spot.

I believe the 2014 backs and halfbacks are the lowest quality backs in Super League history, as a collective they are in the main poor tacklers who do not score tries and offer very little. I wouldn't be confident that they would suddenly become good players in the Championship.

For me to think we'll be better than that, I'll need to see who is signed and playing in the backs.

In the halfbacks have a lot of doubts in Foran who I have never seen play well - I remember his debut for Salford v London when we were 24-0 up away at half time - and he hasn't played many top flight game in his career whilst the youngsters like Keyes, Woodburn-Hall and Thomas could become special players but may need another season or two to be top class.

In the outside backs, I believe our chances of signing Dixon again will depend on whether we play him this year; if we do he is sure to go. He will be prolific. Macani is also a great prospect although needs more self-belief. That's all you can get excited about from what we have there, unless the under 19 guys start amazingly like Caton-Brown did.

If we make the right signings in the outside backs, we'd have a chance against the Super League teams, but I'll be surprised if we do get the players we need - might need to win a few more games to attract better players - so I'll say top 4 overall but not promotion next year.

Cheers
Mark

Why? So you want another "favourite game" thread?

Just so a bunch of RL fans who have a basic level of respect for other people's opinions can discuss the club fairly sensibly without being constantly shot down by an arrogant, repetitive guy with nothing positive or particularly interesting to say.

No evidence of that happening when I walked last time

Indeed the place was even more dead.

Perry wrote:
I'm with CrusaderPete ........we'll still be here in one form or another because we, the fans, the REAL fans, will still be here.

Gutterfax wrote:
He shoots....he scores.....
From Sunday Evening:

CrusaderPete wrote:
Well thats the last of my cash they'll have for this season, Grima has to get real and remember theres a product to sell, I don't buy broken eggs or mouldy bread, I ain't paying to watch this either!

Gutterfax wrote:
...if you run you might just catch him up so you can "be with him"


Lol, I think you'll find thats two more home games and I WILL be back next season, just ain't paying to watch Grima wind it down. Next year I will purchase a shirt (I'm not gonna rely on one being ready for my wife to buy me for Christmas, not even until April for my birthday).

And I will attend between 6 and 10 home games, shift-pattern allowing as I always do, and squeeze in the odd away day. I will be as positive as always too, we WILL get promoted!!!

And I'll be here to keep you grounded.

Translation: He'll be there to promote himself from afar… and bore the s*** out of the rest of us.

I'm sure you will GF, I'm sure you will

Another bloody car crash of a thread.

Debate the topics not the posters.