Congratulations to Lee Radford, the rest of the coaching team, support staff and the players for achietheving the first objective of the season, a place in the top 8 and next years Super League.

What I'd like to see now is that we take confidence from the performance at Rovers, largely without Ellis and Pryce, and make a real go of the Super 8s.

I don't expect us to make the top 4, but we've shown we can compete and our youngsters are good enough to do so. I don't care if we lose 80% of our games in the Super 8s, just as long as we show the spirit and commitment we did tonight.

The nightmare scenario is the players focus on the loss of Ellis and Pryce and we succumb to the "well what else could be expected" syndrome.

Therefore I propose no-one on the board posts about the losses we've sustained, but instead on the opportunity ahead of us.

Lets see the lads give it everything and get behind them in the Super 8s.

Good post LP. I'm in.

count me in

Win Friday and we're likely 6th which would be a decent place to kick on from

I just hope we go about it the right way.

We have no real expectation on us now, it's something of a free pass. Keep guys like Abdull and Logan in the team and let's try to play positively and take the game to teams.

I am hoping Catalans beat Hudds this week to keep it nice and tight. It would also be a big boost if Wakefield could turn Cas over but I won't hold my breath. Cas and Warrington also play each other next week and Catalans are away at Leeds. If we could get a win against Wigan we would be in the mix. Realistically I think we need to win 6 of 8 to have a chance, and we will have to beat Warrington, Cas and Huddersfield. It's all a pretty tall order, but at least we've bought a ticket.

Hull wIll be lucky to win a game in the 8s as all the big clubs will take it to the next level.

Course it's gonna be tough, but I see a battle royal about to start between 5 clubs for 1 top 4 spot! We haven't been particularly fluid or decisive in the last 3 games but we have come away with 6 points none the less.

Huddersfield go to Catalan tomorrow, Castleford have a Derby game and a visit of Warrington to finish with and Catalan finish at Leeds. The league table after 23 games could be very, very tight.

We have nothing to be scared of and could possibly still nick that 4th spot.

I can but dream.......

Cry me a river.

More chance of winning one than rovers though

You need to worry about your best team in SL to date in your 8s as Leigh & Widnes will be upping their game.

Snap

We'll let you know what its like, pal

Win Friday ?

Please don't predict it after your recent form

and bradford

did say I fancied us to win 2 out of 3, hope am wrong now

We'll see, we have a decent team and I'm sure we'll give it a good go. Hope you get hammered in the 2nd rate play-offs. Going down, going down, going down!!!

Let me know if Bradford Northern still have them sponge finger thingies and the monkey on a quad bike dancing to Wooly Bully. PM me and I'll let you know where the best Weatherspoon is in Sheffield.

Maybe he could start with getting the day right before predicting the result

Don't tink we will win friday, Thursday maybe









Changed my mind, we'll lose

Me likes it, me likes it a lot.

At the start of the year our (realistic) goal was to ensure we maintained our SL spot. We've achieved that by securing a top eight place. Given the current state of the club infrastructure, the quality of the first team squad and the (much discussed) shortcomings of the coaching set-up, our position in SL is around the 7th/8th spots. To that end we are probably par for the course.

As for part 2 of the season, we're under no real pressure as such. No one is expecting us to make the top 4 play-offs and it will be difficult (but not completely impossible) to achieve that goal. Because of the low expectations we can go out and take a free swing in the remaining eight games and hopefully upset a few teams along the way.

I'd like to see us go out and play some expressive rugby. The team have shown, on occasions, that they are capable of giving the ball some air and this really is an opportunity to express themselves a little and entertain us in the process.

After the debacle of the Easter Derby I was convinced we would be bottom two nevermind bottom four, so the team deserve credit for working hard and rescuing the season to a reasonable extent. We may not be exactly uprooting trees but at least we're still in with the elite group.

good post mate

Now the merged (super) academy makes much more sense

Hull KR become our feeder club where the U23's can play in the championship

Come on guys, it must be awful, contemplating relegation. Lets say a prayer for Rovers.

Amended for accuracy