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?

Agree with that. "Top 8" as suggested by another poster is not nearly good enough.

We should be aiming for the top four in 2012 and the top two in 2013.

Where do you see the halves, Paul? Horne 6, Seymour 7, Ellis as cover, or Seymour 6, Ellis 7, Horne as cover? I'm just hoping Ellis doesn't end up in the reserves - needs gametime to improve and make the step up, but really hoping we don't just pick him for injury cover.

It's lovely to see so much of you on here since Pearson took over, stirring up conspiracy theories about the Allam influence on the purchase and so forth, and now the rather excellent faux indignation about perhaps one of the Briscoe brothers moving on. Indeed, 12 of your last 15 posts have been on here, and one of the other 3 was on the Leeds board to comment about Hull fans starting trouble at the last derby. Can a moderator be a troll? Or are you a bit upset you're about to sign a coach with "concerns about his character" and your marquee signing is looking like Sam Barlow?

Horne, Seymour with Ellis as backup for injuries or lack of form. I ant Ellis to play and he will get chances as the season goes on.