As well as the 17 with shirts on, we need to make sure that 11/12,000 in the stands are doing their bit. Encouragement goes a long way to improving performance/commitment and the more we shout and cheer, the better I believe our performances will be.

Can't wait for the new season so we can put this into practice.

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I thought the atmosphere was better last season, but there is some way to go...at least fans are coming to games and feeling positive, rather than the sinking feeling of 'oh no, not again' of the Agar era!

You should make top 4.
Wigan havent replaced like for like and Tomkins is a year closer to leaving.
Leeds are another year older (so what!)
Saints- second season syndrone at new stadium (cant see manu doing what he did for you)
Cats have a french coach, say no more.
Wire will be there or there abouts.

i'll add in - a win at the magic weekend

I don't see how these two are reasons a team would get worse?

Or the Catalans coach being French, tbh.

Watch him fulfill all the negative Gallic stereotypes, now I've said that!

Leeds are a year older though, unlike the rest of he sides.

A lot of Hull fans are saying you'll be top 4 next year, but which team do you think will drop out of the top 4?

Very good point. On paper we don't have a better team than the top 4, although Wigan may struggle with 2 average halfbacks. I'd imagine 5th or 6th is realistic for us, which would be fine with me if we hit form towards the end of the season.

Don't think there are many saying we [iwill[/i be, but plenty of us who think we [icould[/i be. Big difference.

Until we see how teams look actually playing there's obviously a lot of guesswork, but IMO this year could genuinely be the most open at the middle to top end of SL for years. There's only Wire I'd be confident of predicting top 4, any 3 from us, Wigan, Saints, Catalan and Leeds could round it out IMO.

Think Catalans may struggle without Dureau early on and with a new coach bedding in they could find the transition tough going. Still a good team mind but if any of last year's top 4 are to drop out then my money would be on them.

i think its going to be very tight around the top 4 next season and the difference between 2nd and 5th may only be a couple of wins - there are a lot of teams capable of taking points of each other. it might even come down to avoiding potential banana skins at the lower clubs rather than performing against the other top 4 sides. last year this happened to us to some extent - a win at salford and a win at wakefield would have pushed us up the table