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Assessment of the season : Tue Sep 20, 2011 8:18 am  
Here's my assessment of the season, just thought I'd throw it out there, see what everyone thinks.

Overall, can be seen as a disappointment, but then the bar was set very high in previous seasons. Some positives - the cup final, the board ebing able to attract someone of the calibre of Brian Noble to the club

Here, for me, are the key areas:

The coach situation
Well handled, in my opinion. To be fair, I think that having a raised salary cap for 2010 was the main reason we were champions. I think Matt was seriously found out when having to use the same resources as everyone else. Defence was non existent. Lets not forget we could easily have been relegated. The board acted well, did what they needed to do and not making any statements was the correct thing to do. We all know why Matt went.

The squad

Pack not big enough and no half back to move us round the pitch - some poor recruitment and retention of "buddies" here.

The SL Licence Application

Did we really expect to get in? Can any championship club without someone bankrolling them ever expect to get a licence again? I can understand the board's initial anger and respect their statement and silence since then - probably for the best!

The NRC Cup Final

A plus - but - we should have won eh?

The appointment of KH

Something I feel the board has been aiming for for a while and they should be commended on getting their man and with how they dealt with the whole situaution.

So, a disaster on the pitch, the expected knock back for SL, at last a new coach who can move us forward and inject some pride and rid us of the indifference and a board who are making some good decisions.

Onwards and upwards, next year can only be better, and hopefully all championship clubs and fans can come together and make the championships great
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Re: Assessment of the season : Tue Sep 20, 2011 11:45 am  
To Quote BlackAdder :-

'Well it started badly, tailed off in the middle, and the least said about the end the better'

Am disappointed we didnt get better weather in Blackpool, should have won too, estatic that we have now broken up the changing room and coaching click though.

It already feels like a breath of fresh air, I'll file the Calland years away now.
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Re: Assessment of the season : Tue Sep 20, 2011 12:23 pm  
Can't help but feel that the season was disappointing on the whole.

I feel that the debacle at Sheffield was the last bit of the hangover from the Matt Calland days.

Onwards and upwards now, with much to look forward to
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Re: Assessment of the season : Tue Sep 20, 2011 8:00 pm  
freddies wig wrote:
Here's my assessment of the season, just thought I'd throw it out there, see what everyone thinks.

Overall, can be seen as a disappointment, but then the bar was set very high in previous seasons. Some positives - the cup final, the board ebing able to attract someone of the calibre of Brian Noble to the club

Here, for me, are the key areas:

The coach situation
Well handled, in my opinion. To be fair, I think that having a raised salary cap for 2010 was the main reason we were champions. I think Matt was seriously found out when having to use the same resources as everyone else. Defence was non existent. Lets not forget we could easily have been relegated. The board acted well, did what they needed to do and not making any statements was the correct thing to do. We all know why Matt went.

The squad

Pack not big enough and no half back to move us round the pitch - some poor recruitment and retention of "buddies" here.

The SL Licence Application

Did we really expect to get in? Can any championship club without someone bankrolling them ever expect to get a licence again? I can understand the board's initial anger and respect their statement and silence since then - probably for the best!

The NRC Cup Final

A plus - but - we should have won eh?

The appointment of KH

Something I feel the board has been aiming for for a while and they should be commended on getting their man and with how they dealt with the whole situaution.

So, a disaster on the pitch, the expected knock back for SL, at last a new coach who can move us forward and inject some pride and rid us of the indifference and a board who are making some good decisions.

Onwards and upwards, next year can only be better, and hopefully all championship clubs and fans can come together and make the championships great


Spot on that.

Highs were few, the wins at Leigh, at Fev in the NRC, the backs to the wall effort at Barrow and the NRC Final which was a great game and the play off win at Batley none were at home funny that.

Lows, going all the way to Toulouse and seeing us lose in the rain to a poor team, same at York and at home to Barrow.

But getting rid of Calland was crucial to make sure we can clear out and start again with a guy that is Halifax through and through and has a great coaching pedigree.
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Re: Assessment of the season : Wed Sep 21, 2011 5:50 am  
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It already feels like a breath of fresh air, I'll file the Calland years away now.


Yep - back to back Grand Finals, with one Championship in the bag - not a bad era for the filing cabinet. And as you say there is a feeling of freshness starting to arise. I hope the club somehow manage to work out how to handle the spectre of franchising. Got to tick a box first and if we do that how do we go about changing the presentation of an application? Interesting times ahead.
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Re: Assessment of the season : Wed Sep 21, 2011 6:21 am  
Hang on a minute! I don't know why MC was sacked. Wern't the "Calland years" sucessful then? They were certainly good to watch.

Other than that, a pretty good assesment of this season. I'm really looking forward to the Karl Harrison years too.
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Re: Assessment of the season : Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:52 pm  
The team did not turn up in sheffield, the fans shat on yet again, that summs up the season.
Iam confident KH will keep the team honest.
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Re: Assessment of the season : Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:17 pm  
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The team did not turn up in sheffield,


Hmmmm .... funny how the poor performances since Calland's departure were not the fault of the coach. Well, if the cap fits ......
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Re: Assessment of the season : Fri Sep 23, 2011 4:31 pm  
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Hmmmm .... funny how the poor performances since Calland's departure were not the fault of the coach. Well, if the cap fits ......

the differance between batley and sheffield was players attitude for whatever reason. fans shat on, simple, even you should see that.

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