With only one place likely to filled before pre-season training(bannister probably) think Karl has done really well.
The squad looks strong and exciting and was quickly assembled.A lot of players quite rightly left and the ones that stayed were correctly identified.

I liked Rhino's comment on Friday night - 'If we can beat teams throwing the ball around we will, but if we have to beat them up to win we will'

Thought you might like that one, typical prop statement

That's exactly the stuff Karl himself was weened on by Brian Smith when he was at HUll.

Its the old adagge that " Its the forewards that win matches for u but the backs decide by how many"

Yer like what I see so far

can't we beat 'em up and throw the ball about

We might be able to start signing players in the next few days , nobody at all signed up as yet



Great innit

Leigh will get through this Starbug. The cream will rise to the top dont worry about that.

The cream will be in Featherstone Halifax and Batley this coming season , we will need a few years before we are back up there again , but then again it's fun fighting relegation as well

And you wonder why people think your arrogant , sez it all really.

No.

It "sez" that you've wandered onto the wrong board you moron. This is a Halifax forum - we're not going to sing the praises of a mining village club are we? We've signed a strong squad and we're discussing how strong it is - why you're spitting your lump of coal out I do not know.

Go to any small town and they all the inhabitants seem to have huge chips on their shoulders, paranoid that everyone thinks they're better than them.

It's a bit too Royston Vasey over there.

Same in any small town, Look at the likes of Todmorden, Holmfirth, Elland ect

Agree with that, Fev still have the bulk of a good side and coach, Batley will go well with John Kear (how are they affording this?) and we look a lot stronger with a good coach in Karl now.

Leigh will need to rebuild this next season, you will be back.

I'll get shot for saying this but...

Other than Bringing in Kear and Ben Black, the bulk of their signings are youngsters, a few from the league below, couple from wakey's academy, they'll either go really well, or they won't be upto it.

Will we ?, not too sure this time

Only 2 options for us , we find somebody wit a spare £150 K per year , or we get our paying attendances past 3,000 , if we dont then we will end up in Championship 1 eventually then things would get reaaly difficult

This guy really has no sense of humour

It's not a case of that no sense of humour,but encouraging violence on or off the field is not on simple,I'm sure the moderator will be along shortly to point that out.

Have you never been involved in the "get into em" chant.

Or when Tonka or Dickens put a big hit on and left the opponent wondering what had just run over them given a big cheer?

The KH statement was clearly meant as a figure of speech usually meaning to impose yourselves physically on the opposition, part and parcel of every game played each week and is not promoting violence of any kind outside the rules of the game.

Yup! Again, a reasoned post!

Wont get shot by me mate , I agree with you , Black was happy to fit into our wage structure , and the others are ones John thinks will do well for us , we will just have to wait and see if they work , but we have the majority of our squad from last year signed , so we should do ok

Not only that Robin at the Eagles v Fax game that you went to when Barlow was out for the count and had his bamby legs moment everyone including you and the Fev fans gave some applause when he got up.

Well at least one clap from you

The game is hard enough as it is! I'm not Sam Barlow's greatest admirer (not that he will give a toss either way), but he puts a RL shirt on for our entertainment. I don't like seeing any player get hurt playing the sport I love so much. Any player deserves some appreciation in those circumstances!