I tried asking these questions at the Fans Forum in December Rugblyman. My questions were shot down without being answered.

As usual very knowledgable Geoff and your point is........?

Great article on total rl forum by Cookie about the players buying into what we are asking ??

I can't see any articles which are not on dons site.

With regard to the on-field issues, three things are apparent to me;

1) The retained players are struggling to replicate last seasons form

2) The new signings, with a couple of exceptions, are not ready for the quality of opposition faced in this season's Championship

3) The link with Hull FC does not currently seem to be offering the same benefits as last season.

How this is turned around, I have to say I do not know. Clearly I hope that the Coaching staff do but it won't be easy.

With regard to 1), once the confidence goes and losing becomes a habit, it must be extremely difficult to break the cycle, especially as the opposition this season is much tougher than last.

Where 2) is concerned I have to admit to being in the camp where I agree that the recruitment could and should have yielded some more experienced players considering the Championship was always going to be much tougher this season.

And then we come to 3) ... We have rarely had players who may make a difference and then only fleetingly ... With the greatest of respect to Hull and the players we have had, it really hasn't improved us any thus far.

It sounds like signings may be on the horizon ... they need to be able to hit the ground running and able to compete at this level if we are to start to turn the season around.

I think really something has to change quickly to salvage anything from this season be it playing staff or maybe (much as I will get grief for this) coaching staff.

Something is not working and now we have started to loose quality players with a proven record at this level I do fear the worse for the season.