Lee Radford definitely deserves the success given the work he's put in turning the club, and his own reputation as a coach, around this season. Big shouts for Adam Pearson and Motu Tony too, their work off the field, particularly with the exceptional recruitment we've had this season, has turned us from a side scraping in to the 8 into a cup final side and (currently) top of the league.

That Widnes match will go down as being our most important game in years I feel, given how that acted as the kick up the backside which has seen us where we are right now.

Best interviewee in the comp bar none.

Chuffed for him and AP.

They'll all be in the Wembley queue which is great news for the club.

COYH!

And yet almost weekly you come onto the forum on match day saying we are going to get beat when we are not playing awesome rugby, fortunately some fans have more faith in the team and the team stood firm in the face of such negativity

Do you not understand why the coach and indeed the owner were coming in for such criticism. Sack a coach getting us to 6th and a final after the Agar/Hetherington years without the benfits of a top drawer squad/halves and not the maturity of the youth system and then absolute dross for two years? Can you not see why that drives fans to act in a certain way?

Old toothless done well eh knocker.

He couldn't show any humility if he tried.
Been found out without the involvement of rocket science.
Bless.

Just in case anyone missed the low levels that were stooped to, as reading that you'd assume it was all fair criticism & nothing more

i think it will be the rovers game, when we came back from 20 - 0 down that will the remembered turning point. who knows what would have happened if we had lost that one

Saw him in the Mcdonalds drive through queue yesterday and wished him luck - something i didnt think id be doing after what was a pretty poor start. Pearson for me got lucky, he didnt know how Radford was gonna turn out and Radford seemed to really show he was out of his depth at times (like the Shaul on radio humberside interveiw) but hes matured in the roll and and really has come of age so well done Radders - now lets win some silverware

Before Yeamo slipped that ball to Shaul then I truly believe Radfud was gone.

Fair play to LR as he was under the most extreme pressure that I don't think many on here have ever faced.

Lets hope LR is the man. I was totally against him as a coach. I now hope he can bring home the bacon and finally nail any doubts about his competency.

In Adam we trust has shown more foresight than the hubble telescope.

Has some big calls to make in the next 4 weeks.Is he going to put all his eggs in the the Challenge Cup basket and wrap some of our main players in cotton wool and risk missing out on a top 2 place or play them and take the risk on picking up injuries and losing them for the Final.

Rather him than me.

Maintain any kind of form for the remainder of the league campaign and he'll have done a magnificent job. Cup finals are special but they are also a massive disruption.

Indeed. Hopefully the magnitude of the ask, for a team that finished 8th last year, is well appreciated by the supporters if we lose a few over the coming weeks.