Whilst I agree with your sentiments, none of us have any idea what goes on within the squad week on week.
For instance, prior to the KR away fixture, Aiton was rumoured to be carrying an injury and he had a shocker and strangely he missed the following week with the exact injury that was rumoured a week earlier.
Was he persuaded to play by the coach, did he tell the coach he was good to go or, was he forced to play a game that he perhaps shouldn't have ?
None of us know the answers to these questions and each scenario will bring a different conclusion.
Regarding intensity and performance, most of us go to work for a living and have to carry out an amount of work in order to get paid.
Does everyone work at 100% all of the time throughout the week, no but, we expect the players never to make a mistake (and the coach for that matter)
We are where we are, not too far off what is possible, probably 7/10 if we were to give a score.
It's satisfactory but, could be better, lets hope we have a decent run to finish the season.

We should have beaten Huddersfield at home, Salford at home & Castleford at the Magic Weekend.

We should have an extra 5 points than what we've got which would put us at seventh (20 points) level with Hull but a game in hand on them. Instead we have to beat probable top 6 teams like Hull otherwise the season is over.

I don't see why we can't play to somewhere near the same level as we did end of last season (but we've not got anywhere near) especially when the pack has been bolstered with Poore & Tautai. Need Sykes to stay injury free which seems to be a factor and really click with Tim Smith.

If Castleford can beat Wigan away then we can beat Hull away.

Come on, you know as well as any other fan of RL that there's more too it than that, like the quality of you're junior structure and coaching. But I can't believe you're arguing that money doesn't matter in RL. All you have to do is look at teams like Warrington & Huddersfield who went from teams like ours, to one competing at the top just because of the influence of money.

U may have hit the nail on the head?
We've got two many players happy to pick there pay cheque up!
And are not too bothered about playing with pride and passion in the red white and blue?

Seen as you've brought it up , who do you think isn't 'playing with pride and passion in the red white and blue'?

I'm not one for bagging players!
Naming names!!
It might hurt there feelings!!
They get really upset and voice there anger on twitter!!!
Maybe Agars doin the same???

I thought we were absolutely dire against Castleford who played ok but were made to look alot better because of how inadequate, ill disciplined and unstructured we were in our play that day...it was embarrassing. Our best player Tautai had only got off the plane a few days before which speaks volumes, pity he's not playing at loose forward for us tomoro night as he'd help make it a closer contest without doubt.

To progress we have to beat those teams around and below us, its something we've struggled to do so its the hard way again.... or may be not.

Cas did play well but were so utterly abysmal that it is hard to know how the game would have gone if we had got off the bus. If you play like that the opposition will look good. That said Cas have done well lately but it is still a game we should have been looking to win as is the next timne we play them

You have to get through good sets of 6 and we have consistently failed to do that. Yes it can be a bit dull, but that's RL these days. Big, fast strong, go-forward battering rams who have to win the battle to get up off the floor quickly and win easy yards. No errors. Kicks that make the opposition play from deep. Of course we all know this, but it is something we did quite well under Kear more often than we have under Agar. You have to win the field position before you can start the flashy stuff. We often try to play ourselves out of a box with flashy stuff in the wrong part of the pitch and pay the price.

After 18 games last year we had 12 points - this year we have 15.
The run at the end of last year came as a result of a settled and injury-free (relatively speaking) squad.

The start of last season saw us struggle to get the best out of our key player as he had no suitable foil to work with (Smith and Sykes).
This year we have been missing that foil once again for a large part of the season, now he is back and we have won the last 2 games (all be it against "weaker" opposition).
Perhaps we should wait another few weeks to see whether Sykes can add that extra dimension to Smith's game again and we can then kick on like we did last year.

I do think there are a couple of games that have got away from us that realistically we should/could have won but that happens to everyone over the course of a season.
We have a lot to do to make the top 8 this season but at this stage of last season you would have given us absolutely zero chance of making it so let's not assume that this season can't be the same.

Yep agree with that.

When suggesting we 'should' have won certain games, some people conveniently forget that there are an equal number of living, breathing, thinking (to some extent) human beings on the pitch, who have a say in how that pans out; we're not playing against cardboard cut-outs!

There are many games that we 'could' have won, but I'm not sure about 'should.'