warringtons best players are coming to the end of their careers, it won't be too long before their cycle of success ends and transition begins.

wigan won't be as strong without madge.

leeds are already in transition.

I can see the curve and it looks to me llike hull will catch the wave of success next.

My prediction is you'll become champions in 2014.

Top 4 is a realistic aim,with the challenge cup a must.I hope the young guns will do themselves justice too,as with Fitz,Lauaki,Washy and Dowes gone,and only O'Carroll the only confirmed fwd(Lynch obv looks likely)it leaves us a fwd or 2 short on this year.

Maybe we will finally look at blooding a couple of props ?

Challenge cup as always depends on the draw, we could get Wire/Wigan away in the first round.

O'Meley
Lynch
Moa
O'Carroll

5th Prop
Kent-Bowden-Aldous

A good mix of experience and rawness/youth

Given Agar has had 4yrs to instill a culture of mediocrity at the club, I'm prepared to give Gentle a little bit of time to coach it out of them.

Like everyone else I want us in the top 4 but I'm not expecting things to change overnight although obviously some are.

You have to beat anyone in front of you,so it's not a big issue on who the opponent is,though a home tie always helps.

It looks good to me, we really need to start bringing the youngsters through I know bomber is keen with youngsters and I hope Gentle is too. The club have invested in these youngsters but for some reasons god only knows Agar has ignored them even when certain players have had a bad run of form..Hopefully Gentle will not be impressed with just a name and it will be performance which gets players in the line-up, players should be playing for their shirts. The likes of Wire are not afraid to drop big name players if they are not performing that is where we need to be.

For me the holes are obvious currently in our squad. We need another prop which should be solved when Lynch signs. We need a class centre which should be solved with a NRL based player.

That just leaves the backrow, it would have to be british but we would need someone.

We would then have cover for every position and with the addition of 2/3 young lads into the squad we would be looking pretty competetive.

With regards to people mentioning the CC, it's hard to say semi final should be a goal, it's largely dependant on the draw. If you draw Wire/Wigan/Saints away then you are up against it.

We should be challenging for the top 4 and making an impression in the playoffs. Along with being more consistent and developing some younger players.

Not forgetting Radford.

Ok, I'll revise my aim on the CC.

Not to get knocked out of the CC by a team lower than 3rd in the league.

To actually beat any SL side in a c/cup round would be an improvement on the last 3 seasons

I just hope to god we don't lose to Wakey next season, would we ever live it down?

I reckon they'll get a 13 if they can (not Radford please). The second row is pretty good - and I think that's where Whiting too will be looking to cement a place should he get the chance.

Do you seriously believe that?