Questions For You all : Sun Jun 07, 2009 5:53 pm  

Who said at the begining of the season that they'd be happy IF we made the top 6?

well i'm not trawling through the posts but i can say that a large % did.

So where are we now?

In the top 6 or Just outside just got beaten in the QF of the NRC by the best side in the league FACT!

Lets not throw the baby out with the bath water (again)

So have Halifax gone sh*t or bust this season?
I say YES and so have Barrow BUT only one side can win things so what happens to them next season?.

Next season we will have a better side and probably expect to be challenging at the top of the league whether we will who knows but under "current" rfl criteria this season isn'rt the be all and end all even TREVOR HUNT said this and he calls Leigh more than anyone!!

this season we are not up to it but whats the point in going over old ground slagging of the coach the directors the playes each other? NONE but Leythers do the same every year.

We have players who are not good enough we have players who don't try ! Get rid of the non triers you can't blame someone for not being good enough if they try!

Rose Tinted? Maybe I am !! its a damn site easier being possitive than not.

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:02 pm  

wow someone with a sensible post on here ??? Never
what you have to remember is a lot of us leythers have short memories

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:05 pm  

I said that I would be happy with 5/6th because this team lacks attacking ideas.

Watto really does need a foil. He was by far the most influential player today and deserved credit for the way he continually got us into good positions only for his backline to not be up with him.

There are a clutch of young players though that I think the club should be proud of and I think Macgraff and Andy Ainscough went well today.

I'm not going to pick through that game today - defensively there were some shocking lapses but Fax played some great high tempo stuff that took it out of us and look by far the most capable team at this level, and pretty similar in the multi threats they possess to our team between 2000-2004.

Re: Questions For You all : Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:05 pm  

WHERESYERBALL wrote:

Who said at the begining of the season that they'd be happy IF we made the top 6?

well i'm not trawling through the posts but i can say that a large % did.

So where are we now?

In the top 6 or Just outside just got beaten in the QF of the NRC by the best side in the league FACT!

Lets not throw the baby out with the bath water (again)

So have Halifax gone sh*t or bust this season?
I say YES and so have Barrow BUT only one side can win things so what happens to them next season?.

Next season we will have a better side and probably expect to be challenging at the top of the league whether we will who knows but under "current" rfl criteria this season isn'rt the be all and end all even TREVOR HUNT said this and he calls Leigh more than anyone!!

this season we are not up to it but whats the point in going over old ground slagging of the coach the directors the playes each other? NONE but Leythers do the same every year.

We have players who are not good enough we have players who don't try ! Get rid of the non triers you can't blame someone for not being good enough if they try!

Rose Tinted? Maybe I am !! its a damn site easier being possitive than not.

I'd love to know how we have gone sh*t or bust. The rest of your post makes perfect sense and I agree with most of it, but we a far from sh*t or bust.
We are not full time, we have kept the bulk of last years squad, we are finishing the stadium and entering an U20's side next year. The coach has signed a 2 year extension and the players are now starting to do the same.
Any team that doesn't tick the GF/NRC winners box for SL this season will be very nervous next season.

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:07 pm  

To be honest all the clubs are playing for nothing.Ok we are in all the competitions but to be honest with the franchise farce do the club need to break themselves to get in.

When the franchise nonsense starts again next year will the current clubs who are in ,be any better than last time? will any be playing in a new ground? no

So I suppose showing you are a company that runs itself within its means and not boom and busting it would pay better in the long run.

Remember this is rugby league and whenever have they followed through with any new gimmick they have brought in?

Sit tight and slowly grow we will get there

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:09 pm  

I'm optimistic every season, but unortunately the one that really matters, is the curent one isn't it. Top 6 finish look very unlikely, and if we did reach the play-offs, so what. could we go any further. The league table doesn't lie, we've not got a very good side this season have we ?
Roll on 2010

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:36 pm  

Budgiezilla wrote:

I'm optimistic every season, but unortunately the one that really matters, is the curent one isn't it. Top 6 finish look very unlikely, and if we did reach the play-offs, so what. could we go any further. The league table doesn't lie, we've not got a very good side this season have we ?
Roll on 2010

Agreed - but we need to be very careful we do finish 7th, 8th or 9th! Because a Championship 1 G/F appearance doesn't count for a franchise application!

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:45 pm  

The club is clueless from top to bottom. AT has thrown thousands at it then entrusted the wrong people to spend it, and boy have they spent it badly.
We persist with a 21's when one isnt needed, we fail to use the community team to bring players in, we are clueless in marketing and we will be lucky to stay in NL1 this year, ok Championship.
It is beyond belief how far we have fallen since the heady days of 2000-2003.

God I fear for our future.

questions for : Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:53 pm  

Well I agree with the original poster.

Re franchising well I,m not an "expansionist" as I have posted on numerous occassions. I think London ,whatever they are called now, started playing when I was a sought after 20 something year old. OK maybe not sought after but I had long hair.

Despite crowds dropping if this ludicrous gamble continus in 2012 we all know it,s Toulouse and Gateshead.

Expansionists get with it. RL is and always will be a regional sport.

Re: questions for : Sun Jun 07, 2009 8:12 pm  

frankb wrote:

Well I agree with the original poster.

Re franchising well I,m not an "expansionist" as I have posted on numerous occassions. I think London ,whatever they are called now, started playing when I was a sought after 20 something year old. OK maybe not sought after but I had long hair.

Despite crowds dropping if this ludicrous gamble continus in 2012 we all know it,s Toulouse and Gateshead.

Expansionists get with it. RL is and always will be a regional sport.

Got to agree I would much rather see derbys between two "old foe" rugby sides with grounds close enough to visit myself than entertain a manufactured club anyday.