LR is astoundingly worried about how good Saints and Wire are

Catalans forwards are better than ours as a group IMO and they do exercise home advantage. I hear you on Wakey but they've been knocking on the door of top 4 a while and I love the mix of their squad - big no nonsense forwards, pacey backs, shrewd halves. Pre season I thought Wigan would be up there - not unreasonable - whereas we had diluted our forwards with selling Watts mid season, Mini and Manu a year older, Bowden and Green out long term. I don't believe my opinions are as unreasonable as you think they are.

Nope. You're 5th.

because they support rovers

I can think of Lyne and Miller, that's about it, Miller is injured but I'll definitely give you Lyne
Apart from those 2 I can't think of anybody else that's been anywhere near Hull, but I could be wrong.
Today's squad featured 9 players born and played mostly within the WF postcode, I know its not about postcodes but even if you include injured and fringe players, still nobody's been near Hull I don't think ?

We trained Hadley up into one of the form 2nd rowers in the comp and you've destroyed him! I do not understand the coaching ethos at HFC.

In addition to the two you've mentioned , I think he's probably talking about Danny Brough and Joe Arundel.

For what it's worth I think Wakey (as mentioned by someone else) have a great blend of big forwards and powerful/rapid backs, with creativity in the halves. That coupled with what seems a great team ethos and Chezzy's coaching appears to be a good formula.

You can't claim DB...he was a Wakey cast off before he was anyone else's cast off.

Ahh, well, both of them are injured but there is no doubt they've made a positive contribution at Wakey, quite how much credit Hull can take for that, I dunno.
We're gonna take credit for Ellis though...lol

But it shouldnt have been a transitional season.
Poor recruitment has made it the season it is.
Radford has to take the responsibility for that.
We had the platform from two Challenge Cup wins to kick on but poor decisions starting with the Watts fiasco have seen us on the end of several huge losses.
Once you build a platform for success the sign of a good coach and management is to keep it going.
Radford has failed and now we will have a huge turnover of players in preparation for next season which should include several of the fringe/reserve players who are just not good enough.

Does the above then mean next season becomes another 'transitional' as the new signings need a season to settle in ?
That's what a lot of posters are saying on here as the reason for mediocre results etc this season
Jam tomorrow syndrome

So am I the only one who still thinks we're gonna win Super league this year?

This post will age very well.

Joint third worst defence in Super League too. Warrington away in three weeks.

Awful stat, simply not good enough. Need the pack sorting.