Well he has achieved making the dream team at Rovers, not sure he would have here.

And become the best number 7 in the city of hull which of course is the pinnacle of any number 7s career.

Not just the best in Hull he has been classed as the best in SL for 2 seasons running.

Best in super league with no medals, i hope hes realy proud.

What is the point of this? Only 3 trophies to play for in the whole season and whether he chose Hull or Rovers he would have had little hope of winning trophies with either.

Biggest blunder has to be Peter Sharp

Under his watch

Briscoe to Rovers due to his love for Motu.
Getting rid of Danny Brough
Cussack recruitment
Dykes recruitment
Getting rid of Anthony Thackery

Sharp wasn't to blame for Briscoe or Brough leaving,
don't know about the other three things but i agree with the Dykes recruitment,
it seems clubs have more success when they bring younger overseas halves in even if they are not first grade in the NRL as opposed to the more experienced ones.

The season isn't over (well at least not for some

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The play-offs will decide who are the SL Champions for 2010. That is an indisputable fact (whatever anyones personal opinion is of this method for deciding a Championship)
Wigan are not the Champions for 2010 (well not yet at least), but they were awarded the League Leaders Shield (or the hubcap as it is rather unflatteringly nicknamed) for finishing top of the pile after the weekly rounds. In Australia this team (St George in 2010) are called the minor premiers.
Wigan will not be crowned Champions unless/until they win at OT on 2nd October. That is why teams always tend to look sheepish and apologetic when presented with the 'hubcap', because they know it means little if they don't follow it up with a Grand Final victory.

As for the other bit, about the play-offs also deciding the final positions 2-8 in SL. I'm not sure if it genuinely is SL policy or if its simply an urban myth. But don't forget the play-offs are a part of the SL programme and not a separate competition in their own right, unlike the old style Premiership (1974-97).

Either way, I wouldn't take Sky's word as gospel anyway. They quite often have difficulty getting tables right during the season. But if we indeed are 7th, then a table is going to look a bit daft with rovers above us but on 3pts less

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Who gets what prize money?

Not too sure, but it would be one way of finding out once and for all if we have finished 6th or 7th. (My, how exciting).

In fact, I'm not even sure if each team does receive prize money dependent on how high they have finished. I know they do in the Football Premiership, but not too sure if the same applies in our game.

Still, what an exciting way to end the season eh, trying to work out whether we've finished 6th or 7th. Honestly, I can hardly contain myself

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Can't argued with that!

Nope. No matter how daft it sounds it's the official RFL policy. Final rankings are decided after the playoffs and these are the rankings used to decide prize money etc.

Fair point so if the play-offs (knock out rugby) are included in ranking, which is based on performance throughout the season, were does the challenge cup games lie in all this, because theorectically they must count as they are games.

And no matter what happens even after the play-offs, every time we bring up a league table for 2010 it will always place Hull FC 6th. Where is this ranking table displayed at the end of the grand final.

I thought league standings stood as official end of season placings but the prize money is based on where you finish in the play offs.

The Challenge Cup is a different competition to the Super League.

Anyway we are just going round in circles here.

We are



I have sent an e-mail to James Rule and the RFL to clarify the issues once and for all!

Yet took us to grand final and 4/5th in the league and through a play-off match.

Briscoe was down to him and agent wanting more money.
Brough was Discipline and no great loss.
Cusack was bought thanks to Carvell dicking us about.
Dykes was a gamble....class when on pitch.
Thackery hardly played for us.

Cooke was a big blow yes and i still dont think we have replaced him yet....he was a ball playing organising L/F....Nt a battering prop/2nd rower we employ now.

Renewing Agar's contract in April.

We have a winner.

Our very own Fabio Capello!

In the last 12 months the biggest blunders were not appointing T Smith whe we had the chance and also not appointing B Noble when we had the chance

Totally agree, if my memory serves me right a lot of posters laughed at us when we hoped we would get him

I know, I wanted Noble with Agar as his no.2.

The CC is a separate competition with it's own rules and open to clubs outside of SL.

The league table shows the rankings at the end of the league rounds. The way SL is structured now the league rounds are basically a qualifying competition for the playoffs. We finished 6th in that sub-competition. However, the champions are not selected until after the playoffs and so the season is still 'live' until after the GF and placings for the top 8 clubs are not fixed until the season ends.

You can agree with it or not, but that's the way it's organised. The table is 'frozen' at the end of the league campaign because it would be too confusing to re-jig it after the playoffs - you'd effectively have to have a table that showed two finishing positions for the top 8 clubs.

ATEOTD it's pretty much an irrelevant argument anyway. Who cares where you finish if you don't win something?