Not sure what you mean by 'natural' level because we have certainly had more fans in the past when we were a competitive SL side. If what you are saying is that Hughes has eroded the core fan base back to what it was pre SL era then you are probably correct.

Exactly this.

Thanks to Dave, we have the same sized fan base (but fans with a lot less optimism than back then).

I'd take salaraycens or dare I say Melbourne storms current predicaments over the carcass festering at wimbledon

If the carcass continues to fester, suggest we flog it to a Tooting curry house.

Dewsbury on Sun... Can we do it..... Win this and hopefully draw York/Newcastle in semi's.....

Also would be nice to get a game vs Pies or Leeds or Saints in 6th round of CC, not that PL would be available for it

Hopefully the Doncaster experience focuses our preparation this week and we can put a good performance in. Looks like rain on Sunday, which might be a bit of an equaliser on a quick pitch and against an as yet unbeaten Rams, certainly sets up for a good contest.

Would be nice to have a decent SL away day next round and like you say, we would probably have to give up any home draw advantage anyway.

All the best today against Djowsbry. Make sure that it's the red rose of (Lancashire &icon_wink.gif England that triumphs on St George's Day!

Decent game. If they had got one more early doors second half I think they may have got away from us. As is we worked hard albeit making errors and got past them. I think our bench was stronger and hurt them. Macani had a good game in attack. Albert had a decent game I thought and Basset, Waine, Leyland Snr and Parata played well. Overall a good team effort and a couple of the younger players got a run out. But we will be punished if we don’t take chances and gift the ball to the opposition in the next round. Our kicking game both in play and from the tee is not where the better teams are so that is something we need to think about when recruiting.

We were much better second half. I though Albert was pedestrian first half but seemed more fired up in the second. Far too many errors though and still lacking variation in our attack.

Can't agree with being better in the second half, more like final quarter.
Overall pretty shocking performance from a team in the championship. I know folk seem to rate Macani 2 tries on his wing due to poor positioning is just not good enough.
Don't think we deserved that win to be fair, Dewsbury gifted it to us losing there heads with set restarts on the last tackle on their line, and the sin bin for dissent

You WON ffs! Enjoy!

Bongser knows whose influence you are under to make you all so churlish and curmudgeonly, as do you. Vecna from the Upside-Down.

Stop it. Break the spell.

you can see us getting home tie vs Leeds next round and not being able to play a PL, which will show what a farce the move to PL actually was.....

Not got a single clue what you are on about. I just give my view of the game. Doncaster/Dewsbury both games looked like we had found our true level for most of both games

It’s our year!

I quite like the idea of us getting Wakefield and allocating them a really shixx area of the ground right in the corner by the toilet block to see how they like it. On the plus side once they have visited RP they will never complain about the quality of their stadium again although to be fair to RP no sides to their ground are a building site and the only containers in the ground are actually for storing things nor the corporate re.