Squad has been unbalanced for a few seasons now, and will take a few seasons addressing it.
Forwards desperately need help.

I dont think our forwards are that big an issue, of the 7 props we have 5 are good enough, unfortunately one has been injured most of the year. The issue is how we use them.

I'd have another prop, but it won't matter until we address our issues of attacking in the opposition 20.

Think some of our forwards are excellent - top drawer, sadly we are a couple short, IF Tag had been fit all year they wouldn't have had to play so many minutes.

BH improved defence massively.

Sadly our squad was assembled by LR to play Bradford style rugby - nobody mentions current COVID rules requiring fitter, lighter, quicker players. How the hell could tht have been seen coming ? Sadly we still dont' know next years rules - scrums ? restarts ?

Current squad lacks pace & creativity, BH knows this & hopefully is addressing. For me Mahe & Reynolds huge disapointments, I fear both Danny H & Sneyd have seen the game bypass them - we definitely need more from those positions.

Keep the faith, support AP & BH - spend money at the shop & over the turnstile !!!

Up until the last two games we where doing ok. Fallen away since. But still have chance to turn it round. Reynolds had co vd symptoms and may still be struggling. Bit harsh to say he's a poor signing. Hopefully get Connor Taylor Massi Savellio back in the near future

Agree with you Dave in both the Huddersfield and Leeds debacles the forwards made metres and gave us a platform but we generated very little from that which is a concern. Look at the first half against Leeds in particular when we dominated Leeds and had repeat sets and scored nothing as our attack was so disjointed and no creativity at all which bit us later in the game.

Abdull always had the potential to be a very good player and we should have kept him. I for one was disappointed when we let him go. Many people will disagree with me and I hate to say it but I believe he offers much more as a playmaker than Sneyd. I wasn't that bothered when Litten went to Rovers but with the new rules he's just the type of dynamic hooker we need.

Lots of work needed in the off season. Hopefully Pearson finds a magic money tree to finance the overhaul the squad. We have a lot a players in their late 20's early 30's but don't have appear to have enough quality coming through to challenge them.

Abdul had good potential, but had a poor attitude, the move away from Hull gave him a kick up the backside to sort that out, happened to a few players like Brough and Long.

Litten didn't get enough chances st Hull, that was Radfords fault.

I'm not convinced either are top 4 SL players yet, buy they have potential and there would both improve us as it stands.

So you are saying they are better than you have in your own team and wish you still had them?

Abduls on a good contract now at Rovers, Saints actually asked to buy him out of it, but Rovers said no.

I think he has more to his game than Sneyd personally.

I think Hull have been guilty of handing out big contracts to the wrong players, and not knowing when a players starting to regress and hanging on to them too long (hougton/Bowden) . The best teams get this spot on.

Hopefully Hodgson can.........

Nick Staveley at the moment seems a cant miss prospect, got the frame to hopefully fill out the more he spends in and around the 1st team too.

You could see him bent over in the 2nd half struggling to get his breath, was obvious he wasn't right.

Agreed!

This! I'm sick seeing the press releases or media mention the CC wins. The was 2017!

Feels like we’ve settled in to the mindset of being in a transitional phase with no immediate goals, a few playing like they know they’re going. Just hope we’re bringing in some decent talent.

No rumours of if Maus leaving?

Could sign two solid players for his wage and an over seas spot

Same goes for Fonua. Both did nothing last night or the game before, or the game before............

Agreed, the club need to wind that down. In fact they do the same with the semifinal wins. 2005, 2016 and 2017 were amazing but they don't need to keep posting videos of them.

They are a nice memory though.
Like I mentioned after the departure of our last long-term coach, it could be quite some years before silverware days are sampled again.
I'm sure we all hope not.

Nice memories indeed.

2016
Shauls chase to catch Sandow
Sneyd 40/20
Fonua's leap and score
Shaul patting the badge and shushing the crowd after scoring
Tackle 52
Radfords roar lifting the cup

2017
Talanoas jump and try
Sneyds 40/20
Fonua's second try





However the previous coach could also be the reason we won't win anything soon too. Bad habits set in unfortunately.

The times, they are a-changin’ (but really this time)

Leeds just confirmed Blake Austin, so they now have him Sezer and Gale competing in the halves. Gale of course was stripped off the Captaincy a week or two ago...

If we could offload Sneyd somewhere could we make a move? I'd happily 'crowdfund' for that. Or maybe someone's slipped something into my coffee this morning!

Edit: didn't realise he is 33 though, thought he was 27/28, time is flying!

We were after Gale when he was at Bradford.
Can see him ending up back at Cas , or at Wakey.

I like Mason Lino at Wakefield, has a good balance of taking the line on, creative with ball In hand and a kicking game.

Issue with Lino is he's a quota player.

Hampshire would be worth a look though, can cover 1,6,7,9 plus wing. He's got bags of pace and I think has been in the FC youth system before he went to Wigan.

As a bench utility player I don't think we could get much better.

Only issue is his ego, I get the impression he thinks he's the next big thing.

Or Wigon

Just don’t see what Gale for Sneyd would benefit as Gale goes missing in big games. If we were to move Sneyd on it would have to be fir an upgrade not just a sideways shift.