For me its very difficult to predict as it depends on 3 things

1. Radford as a Coach whether he has learnt sufficiently from last seasons mistakes and improve the mind set and tactics used. We need to much more clinical in the oppositions 20.

2. The spine of the team 1, 6, 7, 9 & 13 and in particular how our half's go and whether we get a settled partnership. If the spine performs game in game out then the rest should take care of itself.

3. How well the new recruits settle and gel into the culture and league.

If all the above goes well then I can see us looking at a fight from 4th to 6th with possibly a push for 3rd but failing come the end of the season.

However if we revert to the norm of not performing again then another stuggle of 7th-9th will be on the cards. As the rest of the teams in the competition are improving each year.

The club nor Radford can afford another poor season so each game they have to be up for it and play from minute 1 to 80 which we have struggled to do for so many seasons now. The first 5 or 6 games will show us which way our season is likely to go.

Get over it, Taylor and Watts didn't want to play for your club anymore. Both would walk into your team and you and every Rovers supporter knows it.

A few questions.

Did Taylor ever play for Leigh?
What club was Watts at when he was unprofessional?
You call Watts an Oaf, there's no doubt he has been a clown when younger( not had any problems at hull as far as know), don't think he has ever texted inappropriate comments to 14 year old girls though.

Both Watts and Taylor are miles better than any of your props, the two you mentioned are injured most of the time. Both Taylor and Watts would get in every SL team. Forwards aren't our problem, they certainly are Rovers along with poor centres, FB and injury prone halfs, you certainly have more to worry about than us. I think Chester will get sacked before Radford and Peacock (Your best prop) will be in charge by the end of the year.

What an Idiot this guy is! Taylor never went to Leigh then Salford you tool.

As for Watts - Another great bit of business conducted by Sandercock on your behalf! Ask the right people at Rovers and you'll find out exactly what happened with Watts. He could have still been at your club.

Did he miss one of sandy's dinner time detentions?

I think you've had too much Christmas sherry.

Yeah I'm an idiot. He spent his second season at Wigan injured and sent to leigh for games. He didn't play loaned by Wigan at Salford last year....where he shone in possibly the greatest under achieving squad of players in the history of the game.

Watts....we got rid of him. Didn't you just repeat what I typed? Numerous episodes with his discipline at Rovers. He could have still been at Rovers...but the club wanted rid. Or do you know Sandercock could make those decisions unilaterally at the time?
Your right since he's been at hull he's changed. You'd be the first to know of course.
He's had one good season in 3 with you. Same he did at Rovers. He's a changed man.