Quote cadoo="cadoo" Can we honestly say that over three years that Noble has been here we have improved each week/month/year?'"
For a short sweet answer imo yes.
It may well be a very simplistic way to look at it but our team/squad now would beat our squad two seasons ago with players like Millard, Withers, Calderwood, Higham, DV & Tickle playing then.
Compare what we had to what we have now and players like Lockers, Hock, Tommy, Prescott, Joel Tomkins, Mcilorum, Richards, Feka are all better than they were two seasons ago. We have improved if you look at it like that but we’ve been hit hard/unlucky by the loss of Trent and also Fielden not living up to or fulfilling the role in the team he was signed to do.
Add to that new players like Gleeson & Carmont are better than what we had and even Roberts is better than Calders and Colbon.
We have moved forward as a club but the problem is we’ve not moved forward as quickly as other teams like Leeds, Castleford, Hull KR & Catalan have which has in some ways nullified the progress we’ve made.
Noble isn’t the guy to take us any further than we already are and it’s time to get a coach that can be one step ahead of the game instead of one step behind it.
But to say we haven’t improved under him is wrong.
I still think we are a HB like Dobbo and a prop like Petro away from being right back up there.