After the error strewn performances of the past 3 games we will not make the top 8. We can't complete sets of 6, missing tackles and failing to wrap the ball up.

Kicking game is rubbish as well, no variation close to line.

Lets look to next season and working on sorting the mistakes out and defence

On reflection, yesterday was our last chance saloon to stay in touch with the top 8 but we don't seem to have that extra bit of class to get over the line in these close games. We are a 'nearly' team and year on year we can't quite do it when the pressure's on to win a game. We nearly beat Hudds at home, Leeds away, Leeds at home and Bradford at home. We did brilliantly against Warrington and Wigan at home and were poor against Salford and Hull at home. We look capable of beating anyone in patches but let ourselves down with dumb play, poor tackling, soft tries and wasted opportunities when we're well on top in games, yesterday being a prime example. I'd like to see more backing up when a player makes a burst, twice yesterday Lee Smith shimmied and made room heading towards the line and nobody went with him, it seems we don't back ourselves enough when we have teams on the rack. I still believe we are good enough to be in that top 8 and if we recruit a couple of quality players we will improve next season. I'm forever hopeful, you have to be, nearly team or not they will always get my support.

We don't have a Brough, Sinfield or Briers kind of player, who can take control of a situation and do the right thing; for me, it's absolutely essential that we sign a quality 6 who can get his hands on the ball and make the right play at the right time - a bit of composure in any number of these tight games would have seen us over the line.

I wonder if Thomas Bosc fancies a year in sunny West Yorkshire - he might fancy working more closely with his new national coach?

What I said on here after the game was nearly identical to that. That call on cockayne was absurd. Absolutely absurd. If he's gonna penalise that, then there would be 10 penalties or more per game for the same offence at the very least.

Trouble is even with Sykes in the squad we still make silly stupid dumb ass errors in defence but Sykes does help cover for them.We need a quality 6 or even a 7 and move Tim Smith to 6 where he would have more time to do his stuff.It appears to be in our game DNA to make those errors as we have done it for 2 seasons now.

I kind of know what you mean, but you and I both know that there's no such thing; it's in us because we can't attract or afford the kind of player who is the complete package - if they are, they play at Leeds, Wigan, Wire etc. Equally, we don't yet produce players who are the complete package and haven't done for ages. What we're left with is players who have maybe 2/3 of what it takes to be a top quality player, so we're 2/3 of a top quality team.