Okay, okay I give up! What I want to see is that gap between our best performance and worst performance narrowed. And I consider our worst performances to be games that we don't contest, not the games we lose narrowly. The narrow defeats I find frustrating but games such as Widnes away and last week are just humiliating in my eyes.

If we can cut out those performances then I will consider that acceptable and a sign of improvement.

We were absolutely awful against Wakefield and Cas (to name but two). The reason we only lost narrowly is because we were playing Wakefield and Cas, not because our performance was any better.

Are you just going to argue with everything I say?

Only the bits that are wrong. So, yes.

Me too. Nearly all of Pearson's talk was about leading the team out at Wembley. Whatever else went on, Gentle delivered that.

Same here. Rugby league isn't like football where you can pick up plenty of results you don't deserve. Generally the best team on the day wins, so if we improve our week to week performances we should pick up more points, so unless we see a massive swing in the share of points in SL we should at least maintain 6th but probably improve on that.

So you'd be happy if we closed that gap by the quality of our best performances getting lower?

How odd.

Remember you were gifted 2 points at magic weekend, and 2 points against Wigan under 19's at the end of the season!!!

London away, wakey at home, cas and Bradford away. Marginal improvement in these games would have meant 7 more points this season, that with a mediocre coach and plenty of injury disruptions.

Do you reckon? We were, perhaps, a little fortunate to get 2 points instead of 1 at Etihad but had just scored 3 tries in less than 10 minutes so there was every chance we would have scored again plus I reckon the wigan team which turned out that night performed way above what the cup winning team would have done on the same day

Really we did, wish the rovers fans would have mentioned it. You are right though, you did gift us the 2 points in that game and the craven park game with your poor defence.