If Agar learns about "tactical substitutions" from someone!

cant wait for the humble pie mate

I'm sure he wont mind eating it if Agar learns to make decent substitutions!!

should taste very nice

My only concern regarding the amount of penalties we give away with O'Meley and Lauiaki's style of aggressive play . Is these will be on top of the needless amount of penalties that Radford and Tickle contribute to the total.

With all this talk of new players id forgotten those wastes of space still play for us.

St Helens (2nd) and Hull KR (3rd) proved last season that you can finish high in the Fairplay Index AND the Super League table.

Hopefully we can boss games in the forwards next season without gifting the opposition penalties and potentially have players miss games due to suspension.

i hope we see good rugby, that goes without saying. and i agree we don't want to get a bad reputation regarding the way we play

However if we have the odd game were a result is out of our grasps and a defeat is imminent (yeah right) then i wouldn't object to Lauaki and o'meley battering people for the hell of it.... fitz has got some good elbows in his artillery as well, it would be a shame not to use them..

i'm on the side of the fence were a bit/loads of biff is deemed good entertainment... by the way. i appreciate the biff is not to eveyones liking

Speaking for myself I like a bit of aggro on the pitch,as long as no one is crippled in the process.

Still got Sky Sports then?

As I understand it, that is often the case. You give fewer penalties so, hopefully, make it easier on youself. Our defence was bab last year though so we couldn't keep the opposition out whatever we did.

still not understand it's a physical impossibility for me to get from work to Hull on a Friday night for 8pm kick offs?

Give it up. Some people just don't understand real life.

If you do finish bottom of the fairplay league you'll also struggle to finish above halfway in the table. Teams can't afford to give away cheap yards and play games for spells with less than a full contingent on the pitch.

I'd be surprised if you did finish bottom of this league, rekon cats will have that honour again.

There's a fair few on here that have an, at best, tenuous grasp, on reality Kosh.

It's not an award you want to win as to me it signals a lack of agression. On the other hand you don't want to be at the wrong end of the table as it means giving away lots of penalties which can win and lose you games.

Somewhere in the middle is fine with me.

And you've seen MY shift pattern for next year?
FWIW a few on here HAVE and are shocked at how many games I'm still going to make. HTH

Bully for you. Do you live 150 plus miles away as well? If not, I'm struggling to see your point TBH.

FFS......give it a rest about who can and cant get there........Bloody childish.....i work shifts and have to rely on Hols and shift changes but i live local so it isnt too much of a problem.

I really feel for you - must be hard not to get your fix of live RL.

I have been lucky that the company I work for have allowed me to work from home on Fridays next year - this past season I had to make a mad dash just arriving in time for a pint before the match. It did mean I had to get my pint from on the concourse though. It's that last point that makes my sacrifice a worthy one.

If they told me I had to work all Friday at the office I'd be unable to attend Friday matches like you.

Ah, the old, your not a fan if you don't go to the games comment. Bravo man, bravo.

I know the feeling. I don't have a season pass anymore because I don't know what games I'm going to make from one week to the next, because I never know what city I am going to be working in.

Back on topic.

It’s perfectly right to want a bit of aggression in our game, but like Standee I want to see Rugby, and I want the Rugby to be coming from us, not hoping that our lads can defend for 70 minutes because every time we get the ball we give away a penalty.

It’s ridiculous to want to come bottom of the Fair Play League. If we do, were likely to be near the bottom of the table and while been an incredibly boring team to watch.

Spot on!