Pearson said he will invest in the club from top to bottom until a successful team is on the pitch and only then can he start to think about profits, thats what a fan of any professional team in any sport all over the world should be more than happy to hear.

All valid points but there is a lot to play for this season yet. Let's not write it off now in the hope that everything will be better next season.

If Ap's comments motivate the players then all well and good but what if they have the opposite effect?

TBH if we lose tonight its hard to see where our next win is coming from. We will be looking at an 8th place finish at best IMO. If its effectively "season over" what effect will that have on the walk up spectators? Won't they decide to keep their money in their pockets and wait until next season before returning? I'm sure AP doesn't want that. However if we can win tonight it will give everyone a real boost and we can finish well, possibly ending up 6th.

Hull Kingston Rovers
Salford City Reds KC
Wigan Warriors
Catalan Dragons
Widnes Vikings
Bradford Bulls
Castleford Tigers

Four or Five winnable games in there if you ask me.

Absolutely, we are coming to the end of our tough patch of the regular season and with players returning towards the end of the season I really believe we can get 4 wins at least. That would take us to 30 points and be more then enough to be in the top 8 IMO, from there its one game at a time.

Having looked at other teams fixtures around us they are pretty tough so I can't see them making anymore then 30 points.

This is all easier said then done though.

Plenty of players read this forum. Some even post (or at least have done in the past).

Possibly. Or alternatively we might only win two of them.

I just find it disappointing that people are talking as though the season is over, Pearson wants us to be a better and more consistently challenging side, doesn't mean we shouldn#t push for the playoffs whilst we still can.

We need to keep Dobson quiet tonight, KR aren't better than us if we do that.

Exactly. Its only July FFS. We should concentrate on getting the best out of the current players this season before we worry about who will be playing for us next season.

My concern tonight is that their pack will steamroller ours and lay the platform for Dobson and Green to cut us to shreds.

We have the ability in the squad to win 5 of those games!!!

We will always be up against it against Wigan and Catalan are not the same team away from home, the others are all very winable.......

Another thing which Pearson may have been hinting at with his conference.

As we are vastly overpriced now for the stuff thats been churned out on the pitch, he knows he cant reduce prices. So when he announces a "price freeze" in Sept it will be with a "better product".

It'll be interesting if Rangi does put "bums on seats" as the man says. Will those bums happily pay £24 a game?

He must be looking at Wire how thay have their income up at over £6mill a year.

4 wins has to be the minimum from that.