Some times, as KR fans we need to take a step back and see what we have acheived in the past few seasons, promotion and cosolodation in a leauge where the margins between success and medioctity are very small.
We can all look back to the halcyon days of the 80`s but they have gone and we deal with what we have now.
I remember the first seaons back in SL, the spirit and attitude in the East Stand was if we win fantastic, if we compete and compete and loose still good.After that period as a whole we expected to win and voiced our disapproval of players, coaching etc etc, forgetting how far we have come.
Look at our team , competing with the best, playing attractive physical rugby, look at the new stand, look at the average age of the KR team, I beleive we are improving week on week.
As a KR fan I am excited by the future, because only a short time ago we did not have a plan or any future.I beleive CS is an out standing one on one coach who will and does improve players skill base and attitude.as we are aware he is operating under very difficult conditions and is at the moment producing results.
How often do you hear Phil Clarke say that dennis Betts has the hardest job in SL? Aside from the normal Wigan/Widnes bias on Sky, with big money available, and the resources that he has access to? etc etc. how can that be possibly said?
Agar last year did exeptionally well at Wakefeild and was in my opinion the high acheiver in SL working with what he had available, this year on the results so far, with the exeption of the Wigan result,CS must be a contender for some sort of recognition.

You're operating at near full salary cap and, whilst you may not have the staff and infrastructure of the top teams, I doubt they are any worse than any of the clubs currently outside the top 8

True, as I said I am excited to be where we are and what we have acheived.I am in no doubt that the majority of SL teams are on the whole operating on the same sort of budgets.
I do wonder how thougth, some teams do manage to carry on, the overheads and day to day running of a club far exceeds their income. The only explanation can be that they have chairmen/boards with deep pockects to keep them in existence.the sky money, attendance revenue , and some sponsorship is the only visble income.
By the way we are not outside the top eight.

Surely Anderson at huddersfield is up for coach of the year ?

Neil Hudgell on HKR TV last week said that Rovers have been 'a long way below the cap' this season.

Not like hudge to change his mind is it

I think he was indicating that we haven't had full value from the spend due to injuries, and so were effectively well under the cap. Obviously everybody has injuries, but he was indicating we need to make more of an effort to make sure future signings are durable. Easier said, like - IMO, a fair chunk of it is just luck, but I guess we'll be wary of older player, especially if their recent track record isn't good.

FC fans love our Neil. Bless

Anderson inhewrited a team which had perfromed well in the previosu season and was relatively stable.Huddersfield have a big money backer who is not afraid to spend his money.In the early days of SL Huddersfeild were for some reason protected and kept in, when in reality their fan base and performances should have meant relegation and the promotion of Leigh.Now there is a story..

I think Huddersfield were saved because the team who could have come up weren't up to super league standard ie Dewsbury and hunslet I could be wrong

No not effectively under the cap but actually under the cap.

Some teams with long term injuries bring in replacements look at Hull last season they had loads of injuries but brought in several replacements like Watts, McGoldrick, Foster etc. The injured drop out of the equation the replacements take their place. The actual full year wage bill becomes far higher than the salary cap but at any given time only 25 players can be selected but the '25' are a shifting sand.

Less wealthy clubs like Rovers tend to cover injury crisis by utilising the £50k available to pay everyone outside the 25 registered players.

Rovers this year despite a crippling injury list have more or less made do apart from brief loan signings resulting in being a long way short of the cap. We did this because we couldn't afford not to.