Your reality check just bounced.

You beat me to it. Some of the posters on here are real merchants of doom. We're 5 matches into 27. If we look the same after 10 then they may have a point, but for now let PG and the boys get on with it.

What do you disagree with then? Sarcastic replies are easy but you obviously feel all is ok at the club?

We have the same players making the same mistakes time after time season after season. Even our coach admits that. What have you seen that makes you feel we are going to win something this year then?

Here's my 'reality check' reply to your post just listing main thoughts ..

"OK against Bradford" - is an understatement we totally dominated the team that beat Hudds last week.

"Completely outclassed by Warrington" - is an over-statement although we were deservedly beaten it was a 15 minute spell that did for us.

"forwards that get dominated every game" - yet weren't dominated at all by Bradford or Saints plus see above for Wire. Neither were they dominated at Widnes - Hull's 1-7 positions lost that game IMO.

"KY and RH contract extensions" - I agree with to a great extent - we should have strengthened these positions a long time ago.

"Joe Arundel on a 4 year deal looks extremely poor business" - looks to have no confidence in his injured shoulder to me at least I hope it's that that is affecting his tackling to the extent it is. More games for York required.

Others - Manu wanted to leave despite being offered a contract as did Moa. Slagging Tom Briscoe off for "not being d" is cheap and total garbage - in my opinion of course. Oh and Ellis hasn't played yet by the way.

At the end of the day the league table doesn't lie. Looks like most people are content with how we are going. Good luck with that.

That's not the reality though is it ? Check ?

Nobody is content with it obviously. We all want to see our team up near the top and challenging for trophies. What we are saying is its far too early in the season to be writing off our chances. As others have pointed out elsewhere, we've had bad starts before and finished the season in a good position. A little faith in our players and coach wouldn't go amiss with some people.

here here hessle roader

People are not content with anything however, we are five games in and it's not the time to judge.

This annoys me. Pretty much man for man relative to their respective teams we were missing the same (and then some), and they were better to start with and have better replacements. Briers - Holdsworth, Morley - Watts, Westwood - Ellis. We had no advantage over Warrington in the missing personnel stakes.

At the end of the season (or even half-way), no it doesn't. But 5 games in it can be a little misleading. See 2009 for details.

No. That's a classic false dichotomy response - "if you don't agree with me then you must believe the exact opposite".

Others have adequately refuted your 'reality check'. I'm of a similar opinion to Staffs FC on most of his points. The 'reality check' that's needed is for people who thought that Pearson and Gentle had some kind of magic wand that would put right years of underinvestment and poor recruitment in a single season. And folk who have written off the entire season after 5 games.

That would be you, BTW. Amongst others.

Firstly I didn't actually say or even imply "if you don't agree with me then you must believe the exact opposite". You just made that up in your head didn’t you? I just asked you what your opinion was seen as you hadn’t give me one and just gave a sarcastic reply. Well done for using a thesaurus by the way on the word dichotomy. Shame it wasn’t used in context but again that doesn’t surprise me.

Another fact you’ve got wrong is that this is the 2nd season Gentle has been in charge. Anyway keep on supporting mediocrity with blind faith that things will change. I wonder if you will be holding back your judgment if we lose tonight.

Hmmm. Let's review what you actually said...



I've emphasised the appropriate part.


This season is a whole 5 games old. I guess I could have been uber pedantic and said "in one season and 5 games" but I figured most reasonable people would get my drift. How wrong I was. I can see now that 5 whole games makes all the difference.

Oh - and the last part of your quote above is once again making the assumption that because I don't share your opinion I must want the opposite. Good going - deny something at the beginning of the post and then do it at the end.