When Pearson took over I think he mentioned a 3 year plan to get where he wanted to be. If that's right then we are two years into it. I suggest seeing as how it's his money and his vision we show a little more patience and let him get on with it.
It's been a poor end to the season fr sure but after 40 yrs of following FC that doesn't really come as a shock. We have been in much darker places in the past.
No matter how many on here profess to know who gets what, who thinks what or who's doing what( all of if being pure guesswork) we need to trust in Pearsons' judgement. The man has been a success in all his past ventures. He is his own man I guess.
We need to stop telling everyone just how good we are going to be before we get there. We need to just quieten down a little and see.
If the plan works then we can shout as loud as we like.
We just set ourselves up time and again by jumping the gun.
While we are all upset things have conspired against us in certain aspects throughout the season.
We need to put this behind us and move on together forwards with a little less noise and a lot more intent.
We need to trust in his judgement for now.
I know the muppets with their 'inside contacts' will come on and rip this to bits but its just the thoughts of a committed FC fan after a terrible night for my club.
But one day hopefully not to far away Adam Pearson will realise his dream and we will scream it out

What were peoples expectations for this season?

For me I didn't expect top 4 but did expect top 6, so pretty much bang on my expectations there.

Challenge cup final i always thought was capable of doing, but if i'd have known we had to go to Catalan and play the favourites along the way, i'm not sure i'd have expected a cup final, so exceeded my expectations there.

I heard loads of Hull fans on here expecting us to get beat by Catalan last week, so they exceeded their expectations there surely?

It hasn't been pretty rugby that we've produced, but we've been a tough nut to crack and been competitive in most games this season. If Saints get beat tonight, i'd say we would have had a better season then them, so that would leave 4 teams in the whole of Europe who are better then us at the moment, hardly a crisis.

So to you people who are so disappointed, just exactly what were your expectations for this season?

I think most of us would have been happier if we had just performed better at Wembley and last night even if we had lost both.

Until last night I may have agreed with that point of view. The problem is the result last night made me reflect on the season as a whole and the thing that sticks out more than anything is the way we have been able to stick with the best teams in games by holding on and chucking everything at a defensive effort. But that is all we have, realistically we are a team of 17 supremely fit athletes that can throw everything in to certain games and hang on and manage to pick up gutsy wins. The problem is the skill set of the players is shocking and when they can't be bothered to turn up some weeks we having nothing to offer and get turned over by teams like Wakefield and Castleford and draw with a dire London.

I reckon if we'd have had Mcdonnell, Lineham, Arundel, Crooks, O'Meley and Whiting, we would have had a chance it that game last night, certainly we'd be a much stronger attacking threat with those players in, and if you took the equivalent players out of Huddersfield team (which was pretty much full strength), I think they would have also struggled last night.

Spot on mate, if they give 100% we can`t ask for more.