It's not an outstanding squad but it has many strengths that ours doesn't. As far as the word "ordinary" goes, there is only one squad in the city that could be labelled with such a word and it's not yours.

They will but we're looking at now and how the future will be if we continue as we are. The sad fact is that currently there isn't one player in our squad who would get into Rovers 17 assuming all of their squad was fit. And you know what they say if you keep doing what you've always done , you get what you've always had.
We need to change our recruitment policy pretty quickly and start being honest about what we've got which is a pretty ordinary squad , little prospect of home grown talent improving things and a poor coaching team that has already failed here and elsewhere. Once we do that then and only then can we hope to put in place a policy which has a chance of improving things.

Ordinary coaching set-up + ordinary squad of players = ordinary rugby + ordinary league position.

Isn't mathematics brilliant !!!!!

I think you're focussing too much on one word TBH. And I would disagree that your [isquad[/i is as good on paper as the likes of Saints, Leeds, or even Wire. Morgan has made the whole operate better than the sum of the parts, which is the sign of a good coach and also a sign of the correct attitude among the players.

We did much the same in 2006 in fact.

I agree, Rovers squad is more workmanlike than flair, what we do we do well, and so far it's working. We don't thrash many sides, but if an eight point win at the likes of Wigan keeps us at the right end of the table, then I can live with that.

Quite.

People seem to forget that when we went on our 13 match unbeaten run and ended up in the GF, we did it in similar fashion. There were a lot of narrow wins with the players playing for each other and never accepting the possibility of defeat.

Briscoe, Fox, Cooke, Dobson, Vella, Fozzard, Galea, Newton, Murrell is our spine. We have players who work there balls off around these players which is the key to our success this season thus far.

Add Fisher to that! We're a different team with him on the pitch, especially this year!

Dont go on there much, banned for some reason

Do you have proof that they can't finance ground extensions or is that just in your bitter twisted mind ?

They can't, otherwise they would be building.

think youll find mrs b will have done her homework on this one

But yet you knew about the said thread


That doesn't add up now does it

It was also nice to note that the biggest cheer from your fans went up when the saints win was announced thus relegating us to second.
Not bad for a club you lot dont care about eh

its just years of the hull board resting on their laurels as hulls no1 club.rovers came up and hull ignored the threat with pig headed arrogance.well now theyve raised the bar and now we have to respond.

I have concrete (Pardon the Pun) proof that works are going ahead as i am the Plumber/Gas Engineer who tendered and won the works and have a signed contract as such!!

Thanks for the abuse, but on 31st March 2008, Paul Lakin announced to the press that Craven Park's capacity would be 14,000 by 2010. In January this year, in an "article" in the HDM Neil Hudgell said that the plans would not meet the previously declared deadlines (which were interstingly included in Rovers franchise application) citing the credit crunch as making it difficult to raise the required funding. Rovers debt of £2.4m won't be helping either.

Please see above quote!!

There, there.....do you feelbetter now??

You'll know more than me but I've been told the work will start at the end of the current season.

You know the exact same as i do mate!!
Its just them lot clutching at straws!!

No. Well, maybe a little bit.

Lakin said capacity would be 12,000 for this season and 14,000 for the start of 2010. That's not happened yet as the funding that was expected has not been secured. No straw-clutching here, just FACTS.

Me thinks on current form our attendances will even out by the end of the season.....

It's hard to get a mortgage these days.