Was wondering where this squad is really at in relation to the rest of superleague.
I think it’s safe to say last season was a bit of an anomaly and didn’t truly reflect where certain clubs were ourselves included.
It was refreshing to witness exciting skilful rugby from our guys, something that’s not been too common at belle vue certainly over the last 20 years or so I’ve been watching.
This season has the all too familiar feeling that I’m turning up because I’m a fan as opposed to being entertained.
I do think recruitment has been poor Pauli and horo have offered nothing more than what we already had, this combined with teams/coaches being more mindful of us appears to have taken away the brief gust of wind we had in our sails.
Whenever in post match interviews we start mentioning the effort and commitment of the players it’s never a good sign and the good old look how far we have come to a few years ago, as if that’s supposed to console us as we stand there watching professionals repeating the same basic mistakes over and over.
It’s just frustrating watching poor unattractive low skilled rugby, the players themselves felt confident of a top four finish would be interesting to see where they feel they are at now.

7th to 8th is good and beat we can hope for just a dissappoitment from last year but been in top 8 is the main thing.as for comments of have we been as good as last year no we haven't no where near but how are we to many unforced changes esp 1.6.7.maybe one good thing may come for season to come chester may learn from mistakes

At the start of the season, I predicted for us to finish between 5th and 7th, and at the moment, I am sticking with that, but I feel we need to improve on our last couple of performances. If we can do that and start picking up wins again, we could really give ourselves some breathing space.

I do though, to a degree, agree with Alegend, regarding the half back comment. I do like Hampshire, Miller and Finn, but I do think Finn is running out of gas. Ackroyd is said to be an organiser, but just think now is too soon for him.

One thing for sure though, the regular chopping and changing of the half back pairings is not helping either the individual players and the teams overall attacking play.

Last week against Cas, yes Gale went off injured, but we came up against another half back that we were linked to at the end of last year, but was deemed by some on here as not good enough

I get what you mean Redscat.

At the start of the season I predicted the top 4 to consist of the same teams as last year, but a change around of the order, and then a group of 3, consisting of us, Warrington and Wigan.

Then, very little to choose between the remaining 5 SL clubs, with maybe the side who are luckier on the injury front, maybe to nick 8th.

With Gale's injury, I think Warrington will take their place in the 4 but Cas only need to stay in touch until the playoffs and can then make a big push again.
For us, I want to be competitive in the 8s. If we are 4th and then get blown away by everyone, it's no better than 7th and get some good results to climb the ladder.