The elephant in the room needs addressing and IL and KR are too soft to deal with it, that is we have 3 x fullbacks or 4 if you count Hanley.

French, Hardaker and Field are all fullbacks and 2 of them are being played out of position. What the management need to do is let 2 of them go and recruit either 2 x centres or 1 x centre and a hakfback.

The whole squad needs and overhaul, we seem chock full of utility players.

We have signed 2 x props for next season but have let Clubb, Clarke, Bullock , Flower and Burgess go in recent times.

We have let Gildart and Hankinson leave and replaced those 2 with Thornley.

Hastings has gone and we haven't replaced him at all.

The squad is so unbalanced its unreal, years ago we would have a strong 1-17 of players playing in their natural postions with a few journeymen and academy players making the squad up to 25-30. Now what do we have? 3 x fullbacks, 1 x winger, 1 x centre, 2 x scrum halves (1 too old, 1 too inexperienced), 1 x hooker who doesnt offer much in attack, a light back row, not enough props and a few players who work hard but are too small or not good enough.

Exactly.

You just have to listen to/read what has been said so far over and over about the culture to know that certain people had little to no say in what went on.

On paper, better than last year but it does depend on how the new guys/coaches gell TBH. As the Reserves restart as well this could help us bring the U19s on and a real gem from there would be welcome. I think we are shy a really good prop and a class centre.

I’m happy with that squad, I was worried maybe French/Hardaker/Field would leave (maybe one still will).

We’ve all probably said this the last few years but hopefully this is the year Partington/ Smithies / Byrne / Havard take their game to another level. Itll be their 3rd/4th full year of SL, hopefully a much better coaching staff and these NRL forwards will provide better support than Clubb/Bullock.

Can’t wait for it

Me neither. Just checked the fixture list to make sure I wasn't missing too many games due to holidays etc and I'm getting my season ticket next week

I think it’s a good squad, well balanced and versatile. Like I’ve said before I want the world but I expect progression, one step further than last season will do. It may seem small dreams for a big club but we’ve got to stay realistic.

But can I just say I cannot wait for the season to start. Absolutely buzzing for it!!