Lack of signings / addo injury? In my many years I can't remeber a more underwhelming pre season, most teams done good business other than us, we only just beat the dullers u20 team, or is it my old age

Try the season we went down didn't Huddersfield beat us 40-0 at home before everyone was sent on a jolly all over the country what is it actually you want from a pre season

Aye i remeber it well, but we're on the back of promotion few decent signings wouldn't go a miss and I wish the derby wasn't played in a pre season it's completely pointless just causes injures

It is pointless but any game can cause injuries

We have had better players get injured in preseason so it happens that’s life

Short memories or post-2007 fans? Pre-season circa 1997 usually involved frantic attempts to sign 17 players before the 1st fixture.

This is a cake walk in comparison.

I think people are expecting a signing a week like last season forgetting that we lost half the team last year for once we aren't trying to bed in 10 new players we are at least going in with a settled team with no nob heads spitting there dummy out

Get s grip, we've signed the MoM from last year's grand final and Hasan injury to a player that would likely have been a bit parr player anyway, no disrespect to Addy.
I agree our full strength side against the FC u20s struggled, thought Lint was awful, our centres garbage the list goes on

Love to hear this list of teams doing good business, no one is signing real quality this year, there is very little available.

Your Doomed

And who are you to tell me to get a grip? out lord saviour? Do forgive me for posting on your precious forum master. Grow up, isn't there anything better to do in barham then abuse people, jezza is on at 1 if you bored

BBM. Please do us all a favour. B.O. Thank you.

Did I abuse you personally?

Lets be honest, if you put a deliberately untrue and misinformed post about this been the worst preseason ever did you expect no reaction?

I can think if 1 in the last 2 years that outstripped this one ten fold. Operating on Lunt a week before kick off, relying on a crocked Campo and a half cut Kelly, sending the lads doing bob a job instead of training now that was a bad pre-season

Aye - I think we've got used to loads of off-season signings. We've had 4 [umajor[/u squad rebuilds, by my count, in the 7 off-seasons since Morgan left for one reason or another, which is clearly more than would have been ideal.

Mind you, the continuity we had from 2015-16, when a pack that had struggled anyway and lost some senior players had Tyrone McCarthy replaced by Chris Clarkson and everybody else replaced by a 21 year old Robbie Mulhern, wasn't great either.

I did wonder if there'd be another 'statement of intent' signing for 2018, but in fairness the question would be who? Potentially transformative players are a rare breed and it can go wrong (see Mason, Willie). Carney, McGuire and Masoe are a pretty good triumvirate to have added or announced before last season ended.

It's maybe a good thing that the current head coach didn't go through 2016 with us and doesn't see things through that prism quite so much.

If the Luke Page rumour is true, that'll be a bit more POWER! He looks like a lad who might win the odd collision. Hull will probably sign to play in the centres now, and we'll get Jack Logan back on loan - Worst preseason... ever!

Err.......... NO

Can't understand why it's your worst pre season .If you had played 6 games and got stuffed in them all fare enough .By the way i think you will get stuffed , hope so anyway.

To be fair ale might of been involved in the posting of this thread, but this pre season has been sh*te, id take a fit campo over maguire probably not a popular opinion, I just personally don't think we are anywhere near the strength or depth required for superleague

That's the problem Campese was never fit let's see what the season brings shall we

Making a tautological statement does not add anything to your opinion. What has been wrong with this pre-season so far? You don't rate our new signings and Addy's unfortunate injury. Is that it? Yes I think the ale has a lot to answer for.

I think we need a couple of big lads but that's it.

Personally wouldn't on campo if he was on fire, took our club for a ride and when he was fit he couldn't manage to skipper a squad to it's most crucial win even at 2 scores up with minutes to play.

Good that Westmorland has kicked the Dave Taylor rumour into the long grass because he is uncoachable according to Wayne Bennett. English forward, Centre and half-back on the list so it seems the size of our pack is not a concern for TS. Looking at the match up with Wakefield in round 1 and their props are Fifita, England, Pauli Pauli, Huby, Arona with Hirst and Baldwinson as fringe players. On a heavy pitch I think our pack may struggle.

TBH rovers fans were drooling over Campese the entire time he was with you

Rovers need to be beating Wakey at home, be an interesting test

Surely on a heavy pitch there pack would struggle

A light mobile pack is at its best when grounds harden up the story goes. Do you fancy our pack against theirs? We need to get it wide and early because our advantage is in the backs.

Your probably right, maybe it's my old age, but it's just been not what I expected recruitment wise, then watching us vs fc was just painful