Quote ="Hangerman2"I would say ninth (as i did earlier in the year). Leigh are a better side than us, they just need to get going and keep Ipape on the picth, their spine is miles better than ours, with Lam and Ipape offering genuine threat in the middle of the park and a good support player in Moylan. Leeds could end up above or below us depending on how their form goes, but they definitely have a better all round side than ours, and have genuine pace in the middle with Miller, and of course Brody croft and Ackers to provide speed around the ruck. In fact, every side other than London, Hull and Castleford have far more balanced attacks than us. Warrington should wallop us with Dufty and Williams again cutting us open in the middle of the field with their pace and attacking flare. They also have Brad Dwyer off the bench who is EXACTLY the kind of player we should have been looking to pick up instead of Milner, offers real threat and pace from around the ruck and wouldn't have cost a fortune as he is only a fringe player and doesn't play the full 80.
Just a couple of points. Dwyer now plays for Leigh, Wire usually start with Danny Walker at 9 and then bring on Sam Powell in the second half. If you are talking about the pace of Dufty and Williams, dont forget the wingers, Ashton and Thewlis both have pace to burn and Ashton IMO is the most improved young player I have seen for the last couple of seasons, a great finisher. He usually has Toby King inside him and also on that edge are Fitzgibbon and Currie quite a formidable proposition for our right side defence
Historically we have performed well in CC semi-finals, so maybe we will catch Warrington on a bad day and get a result, we will however merely be prolonging the agony of a 4th CC final defeat if we do. I never want us to lose, but if going out of the cup is the straw that removes Watson from post i would take it, We wont win the final anyway.'"
Quote ="Hangerman2"I would say ninth (as i did earlier in the year). Leigh are a better side than us, they just need to get going and keep Ipape on the picth, their spine is miles better than ours, with Lam and Ipape offering genuine threat in the middle of the park and a good support player in Moylan. Leeds could end up above or below us depending on how their form goes, but they definitely have a better all round side than ours, and have genuine pace in the middle with Miller, and of course Brody croft and Ackers to provide speed around the ruck. In fact, every side other than London, Hull and Castleford have far more balanced attacks than us. Warrington should wallop us with Dufty and Williams again cutting us open in the middle of the field with their pace and attacking flare. They also have Brad Dwyer off the bench who is EXACTLY the kind of player we should have been looking to pick up instead of Milner, offers real threat and pace from around the ruck and wouldn't have cost a fortune as he is only a fringe player and doesn't play the full 80.
Historically we have performed well in CC semi-finals, so maybe we will catch Warrington on a bad day and get a result, we will however merely be prolonging the agony of a 4th CC final defeat if we do. I never want us to lose, but if going out of the cup is the straw that removes Watson from post i would take it, We wont win the final anyway.'"
