1st. choice team is good enough to make the play-offs, but there doesn't seem to be anything in reserve. With Nobby coaching the Crusaders, if we have a bad injury run we could well finish bottom!

Salford are a selling club, I think morale is low and can't see them being much better than us IMO

10th if the club has a good season with injuries, 12th if not.

I think it all depends on whether the mysterious malaise that afflicted the squad over the closing months of last season has been properly rectified. If not we'll be potential wooden spoonists. If we can start this season as we did last we can finish around halfway. The ten wins from the first fifteeen games last season was the most prolonged spell of good form since the final year at Griffin Park and I don't think the current squad will be any weaker than the one that achieved those results. There will of course be the inevitable losing streak at some point when too many of our first choice players are out injured simultaneously.

Im guessing you're talking about last season, not the Griffin park season, but do you honestly believe that? We might of improved our backs, which really we haven't even if it is Gafa that left. But our props are no where near the same standard as the ones that left, and thats worry.

3 of the props are the same people(LMS, Ward, KT)-We have lost Haggerty and Hecks who have been replaced with James and Big Dave(how many games did the H's play?)-We have an abundance of 2nd rowers who can move forward if need be.

Hard to be optimistic after the second half of last season. But we do have 7 or 8 young guys, some of whom just could come good. Robinson and Williamson have to be more effective than last year (please!). And none of the players we've lost was of any great use towards the end of last year.

But it's still hard to be optimistic.

Downers are that we don't have a real right centre, our halves probably aren't good enough (Orr will struggle for fitness and Gale needs to come on fast - maybe Ellis will play at one of the half-back positions?) our coach seemed at a loss last year to fix things that were going wrong, Bill Peden's replacement is an unknown quantity. And I worry about Purdo's fitness.

If everything goes right, we could finish as high as 5. If a few things go wrong, we could end up at 14. Probably about 11.

Regret to be of the view that QuinsRL are in for another poor season in 2010 and if we have a spate if injuries the squad will be unlikely to be even within 3 places of vthe last play-off slot!!

But will 'forcast' 10th at best.

[sizewe?[/size Thought you'd jumped ship.

Still don't think Ward is good enough anymore, LMS and KT, well they speak for themselves, obvious quality. James, no one knows anything about him, and Dave, he's good in the reserves, but can he step up? He just reminds me of a better player than Grayshon, but many people are better than Grayshon, guess we just have to wait and see.
And Haggerty at the beginning of the season was great, Hecks had his good games and his bad games.

Because of injury, this might be why it was bad come end of the season? At the beginning of the season, some of the players we lost were playing good, then they got injured and we fell down the league like no ones business.

I suspect Leeds and Quins have quite different "targets" to achieve success. Would 8th for example be failure for Quins?

Salford were (slightly) better than us in the second half of the season even after they stopped picking Myler. But no, I don't know what they've done with the money since.

Not aware of them doing anything with it yet.