I'll be happy just for us to avoid the drop, get a decent bit of momentum and confidence around the club.

This is an uneasy time for the club.

Thanks for the heads up.

Lets hope the boys prove them all wrong ,with the exception of smailes of course.From what I saw of rovers in the friendly wasn't impressed with the forwards at all and if they pick up a few knocks then I think they'll really struggle.hopefully we can surprise a few this year.ever the optimist .

fwiw I agree with you, this squad is no where near the one we had with galea newton vella in it, that team finished 4th this one will get no where near that. I've not heard many big our squad up tho, only the usual over optimistic lot. I don't support both clubs but equally think your signings are nothing to get excited about either, the pack has a lack of balance with a lot of impact but no real grafter to do the hard work whilst the cannon balls take a breather every five mins.

6th at very best, 10th at worst for both clubs, either or both coaches could be gone by june.

the players you mentioned were all quality imports and could easily have stayed in aus and played first team every week. sadly the strength of the aussie dollar is preventing many players of that calibre coming over anymore, with one or two exceptions. none of hull and rovers current imports comes anywhere near to their quality

Agree with finishing positions but hope Radders proves doubters wrong, and think he will still be the coach for 2015. Things may be a bit clearer by round 9 which just happens to be the Derby at CP....

RL Express have Rovers 7th & FC 10th

few of the national papers had us 6-8th and rovers not making the 8!

League Express this week predicts
1 Saints, 2 Hudds, 3 Wigan, 4 Warr, 5 Leeds, 6 Salford, 7 Rovers, 8 Cas, 9 Catalans, 10 Hull, 11 Widnes, 12 Wakey, 13 Bradford, 14 London

The new edition of Rugby League World goes for
1 Hudds, 2 Wigan (and GF winners, 3 Warr, 4 Saints, 5 Leeds, 6 Salford, 7 Hull, 8 Catalans, 9 Widnes, 10 Cas, 11 Rovers, 12 Wakey, 13 Bradford, 14 London

This after Andy Wilson in The Guardian predicted 11 for Hull and Steve in The Sun 12th for Rovers.

at the end of the day it's only a bunch of journalists predictions isn't it, im pretty sure some off here will get closer than most of them lol

it was interesting to hear that Huddersfield only had 2 injuries last season, if either of our 2 sides could have that luck with injuries then IMO silverware COULD be close.

it's the same journalists that get pi55ed up at the CC Final and decide the Lance Todd Trophy winner at half time because they wont be able to see straight later.

Fact is that both Hull and Rovers have so many changes to key personnel that predicting how their seasons will pan out is an exercise in futility. Both clubs have plenty to prove.

Lets just play ALL our games to win and the other stuff will sort itself out. Focus on the game coming up each week.

Stop being sensible. It doesn't sit well round here

He needs a ban Chris, we cannot be having sensible posts what is the world coming too.