I have said it before about them lot, there mouth's write cheque's that there bums cant cash!

If by them lot you mean rovers fans I think his wager was with one of you lot

Didn't say kr fans I said them lot meaning people who chat about betting but fail to back it up, time wasters! So hush your beak.

I think your squad is poorer than last season, simple really.

So not really that far off then, doubt I will be as far away as some of the predictions as 2nd and 3rd for FC as I have seen from some of your own fans.

A lot depends on how the pack perform this year and how well we cover the inevitable injuries . Hope they can get on the front foot and give our backs a chance to shine as we've got some talent there . Looking forward to seeing Radfords input and to see if the team is going to play from a different more attacking mind set as promised .
Decent chance of 6 again imo.

I've not seen more than a couple saying that. Most say sixth as do a large number of supporters of other clubs on the VT.

All clubs have excitable supporters. Easty is predicting fifth for Rovers, above Warrington.

Radford just needs to control him self abit. He doesn't want to get into a situation where the players are scared to do something abit different at times and in case it doesn't come off and they are facing a bollocking and a dropping.

So true. For all we've supposedly had a "good pack" , over the last few years it's been very rare that our 6 have dominated the opposition. If we're going backwards in defence and struggling to make yards the backs will have little chance. As Radders said we lacked physicality last week and more often than not that's been our main problem for a while now.

Doesn't this apply to every coach in world sport?

No, not every coach manager has a confrontational style.

Can count against you big time if things not going your way

He's got good man management skills radders, I don't know why people are thinking different.

I just hope he can instill a bit of aggression into the forwards. I'm sick of seeing forwards jogging at the opposition and then laying passively on the ground until the opposition players get off him and vice versa in defence

What did you think about his pop at the so called weaker players in the squad after the Bradford defeat, the 30%.

He was correct.

Not saying he wasn't, you not think it was a comment that should have been kept in the changing room?

He was being interviewed about the game. What's he supposed to do, trot out some shiite about blaming the referee, weather, not having his full first team playing?

He gave praise, well-deserved, to Ellis, Paea, Feka, Westerman. They stood up. There were many players on the sidelines - McDonnell, Lineham (for part of it), Yeaman, Talanoa, Watts, Tuson, Whiting - who'll be in contention either this weekend or shortly. Some players were playing to edge that group out, it was a good opportunity. Not all of them took it. He's said today that he's giving them another chance tomorrow, going with 25 players. What's the drama?

Any new coach will make mistakes in the media. It's inevitable. Look at sandy, 2 years of it and he's still like a rabbit in the headlights

I think you're right but then so is everyone's except for saints, salford and cas

There in the media eye anyway, so for there coach to come out & say if they are playing well or not playing well is normal, its part of been a professional sports star, just hope he never blames the ref publicly!

I think ours has improved, especially in the forwards, plus a bit more depth to the squad but there again I am going to say that, you know this.

Hudds have not gone backwards, also think Leeds are just as strong.

We have some potential from younger players improving and others reviving previous form , we have a couple of steady characters and a couple who need to prove last year's excellent form was no one season wonder but we lack nailed on class. For us to improve on last year as a team we need two or three or more players to really live up to their potential and for the forwards in particular and players in general to have energy and the right attitude every week , all game , including 3 minutes before half time , the first 10 at an "easy" away trip etc etc.

Debatable on your squad. On one hand you've brought in some aggressive, experienced players who will tighten your defence and give you some go forward. On the other, you've signed a bunch of NRL cast offs looking for a final pay day. Remains to be seen how it pans out but I doubt keating will adequately replace dobson and I'd rather have paea than either poore or weyman

His leadership skills need to improve, he was a poor leader on the pitch for us when the chips were down, will be interesting to see how things go.

Paea for me was our player of the season last year, outstanding and I agree it will take a massive effort from Weyman and Poore to be as good as he was, I can't see it. But from what I saw last year he was possibly the best prop in comp, I didn't see any player dominate him once! A few question marks over his defence at times though, not many albeit.

I have said previous my worries are over Weyman and possibly Costigan. I'm still surprised Catalan allowed us to take Larroyer!

I think Keating will go really well, no nonsense, tough as nails, good support player. I'm pretty confident he will settle in very nicely.