[url=http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/rugby-league/super-league-preview-odd-season-in-store-with-a-lack-of-ups-and-downs-777428.htmlfull article for 08[/url

phil clarke predicted catalan last night. is he getting as mental, or is he right about them having the best centre combo, and the best front row in the comp?

I think Phil Clarke & his trolley have parted company.

Interesting to hear Clarkes comments "The team with the best front row wins it".

Immediately following Walters "To win it the stats show the team that organised their defence wins it".

Hull look to be dark horses on viewing all teams.

Totesport have predicted 3rd for us: www.totesportblog.com/?p=83

Totesport have predicted 3rd for us: www.totesportblog.com/?p=83

If that is the case with a rotation of Morley, Rauhihi, Wood and Carvell with Higham at hooker we will win SL at a canter.

Funnily enough I thought RL was a 17 man game!

Andy Wilson reckons we'll finish 9th.

Haha. We've beat them into submission.

"Dark Houses" in a Desert Orchid kind of way?

Finished 12th last year. They have replaced Carvell with Moa, Wheeldon with Maloney, Sing with Calderwood and Dykes with Thorman.

Schofield in RLW has us in 6th. He also thinks Salford will finish last and probably won't win a single game. "I've got little faith in their coach, Shaun MacRae. while their captain, Robbie Paul, is a few years past it."

Im very glad that we didn't appoint MacRae.

He is very over rated as a coach.

news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 869156.stm Here's the BBC with an article on SL, runners & riders. The Salford part is of interest, Parker was 'fed up' with where he played.

news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 869156.stm Here's the BBC with an article on SL, runners & riders. The Salford part is of interest, Parker was 'fed up' with where he played.

He was never really that better at second row to be honest.

thats the opposite of what was said when he left, that he wanted to play in one particular position rather than lock, 2nd row or prop, basically fitting in where was needed.

Bollox, Parker was disposed of to make room for Carvell.

The decision wasn't his.

Exactly. Who is George Riley?!?

I think he's the BBC's new RL correpondant, he seems during the article to be keen to let you know that he has sources & knows the coaches & players well etc, he uses nicknames and stuff like that as if to emphasise this.

Who's said it was?

Former Radio Leeds presenter, now working on Radio 5.

I said that when we were first linked with him...And i was laughed at by certain people on here..
None of them would admit to that now..

I think he is a good example of how it is hard to measure how good a coach is.

At Saints he did a good job, but then so have many coaches.

Millward did a good job at Saints, but almost ruined Wigan.

All coaches operate under different circumstances, and it is difficult, as a fan to compare.

i detested the idea of him coming here. and you can look that up, peoples justification of "look what he did at sintellins" 12 years ago.

'Look at what he did at Souths' was enough for me.

Some people wanted Paul Cullen out that badly they'd have taken anyone...
Sad really...

Paul Sculthorpe has us finishing third: www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/st ... -22903553/

Paul Sculthorpe has us finishing third: www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/st ... -22903553/

Quote ="SEB"Paul Sculthorpe has us finishing third: www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/st ... -22903553/'" I've just read that whole article in the style of how I think Sculthorpe would have said it, really enjoyed it.

Quote ="SEB"Paul Sculthorpe has us finishing third: www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/st ... -22903553/'" I've just read that whole article in the style of how I think Sculthorpe would have said it, really enjoyed it.