maybe not just yet, but certainly by the time the middle 8s come around we should be, but if we cannot then we wont be good enough , a bit early for hidings

To summarize.....I'll squeem and squeem unless we win by loads...

Reality check....current and ex high level superleague players...whose squad is that? Lunt and.....who else in our squad was a high level superleague player?

I'm sorry to inform you but you read like your a sharks fan.

What a load of piffle you post sometimes. Heaven forbid we should have a different point of view to yourself. I myself echo a lot he says. Do you think Wigan or saints, wire would be happy to beat Rochdale by ten. And just be happy with three from three. Won on crap performances??
Absolutely not. The way we are playing 'right now' granted wouldn't beat a crap Widnes side.
It's the likes of us who knew what was happening last season before it happened that have a balenced view (if sometimes morbid) on things.
A 50 point haul is the minimum for us tomorrow. Another performance like Rochdale I cannot accept.

We aren't Wigan or Saints. We are are 3 games into building a whole new team.
My views on our team last year are all there to check over and at what stage I started to believe we were in a relegation fight.
It's a forum......for discussing opinions.
I can understand fans disappointments after games, the horrors that go with being relegated etc but I can't tolerate this ' We're a big club 'we should be scoring 50 every week' ' snobishness.. It's what has made the Sharks the great under achievers of the superleague era.
Read a little of the other threads. Leigh didn't hammer teams each week. One of the games greatest coaches is 240 minutes into his tenure against opposition coaches and players who want their say about the result and you won't 'accept' another victory like last week (away at the league leaders).
Is this the type of attitude that got Ranieri sacked?
More piffle later...

I don't mind a close score as long as Rovers win the battle and bank the 2pts!

Winning ugly doesn't matter in the 23 game structure, something Leigh did with aplomb last season. However, we do need to see improvements as the season progresses but I don't consider hammering teams as a mark of progress. For me, it opens the door to complacency, so give me hard battles throughout the season, this will keep Rovers honest.

TBH I am enjoying the Championship and its different challenges - its like a breath of fresh air (but only for one season please).

Ditto.
There are some good players in this league. Why more aren't given a superleague chance I don't know
Didn't the 2015 Leigh team hammer a lot of opposition during the season then fell of the horse in the play offs. Won 1or 2 games if I remember correctly.

I will be interested to see how Abdul plays today without Addy on the pitch. I've seen them play 3 times now (once at Leeds) and they seem to stifle each others game.
Both run a simular line for the second ball and can often be seen tackling or blocking the same player.
Abdul will have more opportunity today to play a free role with Donaldson tackling up the middle and hopefully will grasp it with both hands.

I meant players who have played competitive rugby in super league for good teams, these include

Lunt (gf winner)
Scruton (gf winner)
Ellis
Quinlan
Cockayne
Horne (cc winner)
Hodgeson
Abdul (to a small degree)
Blair
Kavagnah
Clarkson (gf winner)


Then there is the kids who have played good level Aussie in Heffernan, JBF, Moss and Clark.

My point was our squad is by far superior to Oldhams. They would be lucky to have a team who have played 10 super league games throughout there full squad

While agreeing we're a lot my way off being at our potential best, for a team to concede 50 points they have to be pretty poor, maybe we should accept the teams we have played so far aren't as poor as we expect them to be. As long as we see steady improvement week on week, and the effort is there let's let the coach do his job, and give our opposition the respect they deserve.

I am annoyed by some fans expecting us to dole out 50 point thrashing to the likes of Oldham and Rochdale. Very disrespectful and misguided.

There are surprise results in our sport week in week out. To illustrate, explain this if you can:

Middle 8s last year, we wallop London away by scoring over 50 points. London beat Salford away the following week. We nearly lose to Fev away who had been hammered by London and all an sundry earlier in the M8s. We lose to Salford in the MPG.

If I take the same sort of blinkered and simplistic approach to the game as some of my fellow colleagues have, why didn't we wallop Fev by 100 and Salford by 70 in the MPG?

Also we dry bummed Cas away last year in arguably our best performance of the season. Hard to believe they are the team that many are tipping to break into SL top 4 and win trophies in SL. On that basis, the same simplistic approach should mean we are good enough for top 4 in SL therefore.

C*#p comes in many forms. Performance and consistency takes time. Patience and honesty is required from the team and fans.

Bingo!

Some respect for the coach's record too.

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