If that is the case surely Furner will have known this before he signed

No money to work with? wouldn't be if you are paying 2 coaches a year off, signing players who are injury prone, throwing contracts at players who are so obviously past it & creating new rolls within the club for ex players. New stands look nice mind.

Furner probably wanted to clear out certain players immediately and dispassionately, golden generation or not. He was here to oversee the changing of the guard (finally) and bringing the next gen in.

This probably led to the tale of the infamous transfer list circulating with Cuthbo, Parcell etc on and more than likely unsettled some others in the squad who Sinfield is close to and rather than letting Furner crack on with clearing them out weve gone down the route of letting them have a swansong season on their own terms.

Furner now under pressure to improve some bad results has turned round and probably gone down the route of "ive gone as far as I can with what I have, the squad needs breaking up, Kev not willing to pull the trigger has backed him into a corner and off Furner goes.

Your last sentence suggests that Furner left but I'm fairly sure GH sacked him.

Maybe, but the debacle before the season started might have indicated he didn't really want to come over anyway (possibly after hearing he couldn't make the sweeping changes). Was it Sinfield's decision looking after his old playing mates?

All hints at something not right in the management. Don't worry though, at least GH didn't get his way with keeping the m8s.

Well you're halfway wrong.

Last night has me seriously considering us as relegation material!If that had been against Saints or Wire fair enough but Cas,whilst far better than us,would not have laid a glove on those two,we made them look better than they are,we are dire!The attendance should be a wake up call,if one was needed,ACTION NOW!

What was the attendance last night? Not seen it reported anywhere

Just over 13200

If last nights Northstand opening was 4 years ago or even two it would have sold out

Winning team attracts more fans shocker!



FWIW the club deserves a lot of praise for the stadium, it is fantastic.

But no way was there that many actually in the stadium. And I think the the most empty I have seen it for last five mins of a league game in many a year.

Marvelous I got in just after KO and couldn't find my seat so I sat in one of the spare ones

And it’s a real shame, they have done a great job with the stadium IMO, renovating an existing stadium with history must be a far more difficult job than just putting up a new one. I think it might have taken a toll in the on field matters a bit but that will be ok eventually

I don’t think anyone could argue against that, it’s must win for sure.

Stadium is top class and kudos to the Club for getting it done.
however to fill it things on the pitch need sorting asap.

London 26-0 up at home to Wakefield!

Hull KR could be bottom if they win heavily today.

On paper London shouldn’t be beating anyone, but they keep putting in performances, their team spirit and desire is brilliant, something we completely lack. Maybe we should make a move for Danny Ward.

I still don’t see London winning more than another 3-4 games, including today if they hold on.

I can't see where the leeds wins will come from either though. The threat of finishing bottom is very real.

Bottom is very different to relegation though, as I said a few weeks back.

That's why I worded it that way. Not saying the game has any integrity as it is but would they really shift the goal posts to keep leeds in SL?

They wouldn’t really have a choice. The game is pretty much in the gutter anyway over here. A shocking product in comparison to a decade back. No way will the top lot make that worse.

I wouldn't disagree as to the likelihood of that happening but it's a big risk getting to that stage where it's out of their hands and at the hands of pretty erratic administrators.

I have a feeling the erratic manner we have acted as a club over last month, that those guarantees are probably already agreed.