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If you didn't expect to be top 2, 4th at this point in the season has to be satisfactory at worst.

We said all along that our season rested on keeping Long on the field and that's not going to happen now. But we've got to 4th without really hitting form and pretty much without our first choice halves on the pitch at the same time. Plus we're offloading Cusack and maybe getting LMS or Fielden, which is would be an upgrade. Plus Houghton, Briscoe, Turner and Tansey have a year's more experience at first team level. I'm very happy with our pack. I'm actually less worried about our backs now too, with Briscoe, Turner and Tansey all improving. Half back is the key concern, but as said, we've not seen our 2 halfbacks on the pitch together, so if we can do that for more than a couple of games next season, why should it be a given that we'll go backwards?

Much rests on Horne coming back from injury/illness and regaining some form but on his own anyway he'll create nothing. Long is another year older and less likely to be on the field next year. Fitz , tower of strength that he's been will be hard pushed to keep up the sort of 80 minute performances he's put in this year. Dowes and Radford will not getter bigger , quicker or better and who knows what Lauacki will do. Berrigan if he stays and continues in his current form will just waste a place on the bench. Just too many question marks and little sign of any improvement over many players. If we are to finish in the 8 this year and make no progress in the play offs , which you believe to be the case , then we don't need to go backwards for another unsuccessful season in 2011 just do the same again. I'm sorry but I cannot see how we're going to improve for 2011 and I worry about our recruitment , especially half backs and threequarters , for 2012 and beyond.

By the way not a nutter just a passionate FC fan expressing his personal views of how he sees the situation to use a "Wilfism". Just as you do and oddly enough I agree and concur with you more often than not. The pressure of being a fan as you should know sometimes leads to a probably irrational form of depression and frustration. Fact is if I didn't care I wouldn't bother to air my views.

Fair dos. We're all certifiably insane following FC religiously anyway.

The original poster is here,im on hols in benidorm atm and i missed the game last night so i cant comment on it,by all accounts it was sh-te, ill post my thought tho just for you,terrrible news on longy but im sure we will get by without him as we did earlier in the season,im still as positive as when i started this thread,i agree we are not playing great rugby every week but name a team who is?ill spell things out were i see it from.

negatives

we have lost to crusaders who are doing very well for a new team,ok we would of expected to of beat them but they have beat bulls,leeds and have run other teams close so was that realy a bad result away from home?

lost to salford,ill not comment on that game cos we should of beaten them hands down,but on the daythey wanted it more.

lost to quins,same as above

lost to wire,top two in the league and tbh i thought we played very well and had a chance of beating them.

lost to leeds,very good team as we all know,ok they not on top of there game this year but we `played them when they had hit a good run of form.

lost to wigan,they just ripped us to threads,end of story.

lost to hudd,thought the game was there for the taking we played decent rugby to go 18-0 up then we just let them back into it and caved in,still hudds are a very good team who finished pretty high up in the table last year and are up they again.

lost to leeds in cup game,was it realy a bad result the way leeds played?not as if we were playing dockers or someone like that was it.

i maybe missed a defeat or two out but are these defeats realy that bad?

positives

after the last 2 seasons we have had and we are 4th in the league and some people are still not happy,we have beaten sts home and away and played very well in both of them,ok the home game we was poor in 1st half but to come back from that was something special,we have played some good rugby this year also some dumb rugby,we still havent it nowhere near top gear yet,like i said im on my hols and people still text me to say agar out

got one text saying hul won 10-8 longy suspected broken arm,players seem to of realised they want agar out now which can only be a good thing,and thats a fan of over 30 years


I seriously believe some people need a reality check,4th in the league 3 points clear of leeds who have wire to play tomoz and saints next week,cant see them getting much out of them 2 games,also cant see us finishing lower then 5th,WHAT DO SOME PEOPLE ACTUALY CALL IMPROVEMENT???

ANYWAY IM GANNING BACK TO MY SUN BED

wake up people and keep cheering on the boys,come on you hulllllllllllllllllllllll