Re: Realistic aims : Sun Oct 09, 2016 8:00 pm  

Well I'd expect leeds to be top 4. Cas played great with huge injury list .saints whole back line injured for big chunks.wigan 8/9 first teamers out for whole season .Warrington will improve with great youngsters.catalans could be anything but had big injury list after looking like best team in league early doors. Widnes wakey and us had huge injury list.cant see there being another season quite like it. Not our problem now but I wouldn't be so sure hull won't be back to scraping into top 8 again like normal

[Mild Rover]

Re: Realistic aims : Sun Oct 09, 2016 8:04 pm  

Doing what Leigh did this season will NOT be easy. But it has to be the target. Otherwise you're reliant on one of the weaker SL clubs having a financial implosion or a massive injury crisis, and still getting ahead of the other championship clubs - none of whom are going to wave us through on a triumphal march to the top of this league or the MPG.

If we did get up, 2018 would be about survival - most likely via the middle 8s again, if the system is still in place.

My hope is that we would banish the flakiness that Pickering refers too. Have a rugged, organised, energetic team. Cut out the Ulugia-type pratfall signings, and the sense that no matter how well placed we are in a game, we can find a way to lose.

Look not for correlates of success that confirm conventional wisdom, for these are weak associations, but identify independent predictors that show the path to glory and power, using regression analysis, Amen. The bloke who did Phil Clarke's much maligned predictometer, could do this.

Re: Realistic aims : Sun Oct 09, 2016 8:09 pm  

One thing is for sure. The super league clubs will not want to be in the middle eighths next year, especially with us having momentum and hopefully decent super league players signed up at the seasons end to compliment the decent players that want to stay and play for the shirt.
I wouldn't want to be a Wakey, Widnes or Salford. There the ones who have all the pressure on them next year if they find themselves on that position.

Re: Realistic aims : Sun Oct 09, 2016 8:10 pm  

Mild Rover wrote:

Look not for correlates of success that confirm conventional wisdom, for these are weak associations, but identify independent predictors that show the path to glory and power, using regression analysis, Amen. The bloke who did Phil Clarke's much maligned predictometer, could do this.

My thoughts too.

Anyway, how many pieces of lego can you fit up your bum?

Re: Realistic aims : Sun Oct 09, 2016 8:26 pm  

SirStan wrote:

My thoughts too.

Anyway, how many pieces of lego can you fit up your bum?

If a correct answer is the prerequisite to being selected in your Rovers select team, then I'll get my GP to re-examine my prostate later this week to accommodate room for an extra couple of bits, thereby increasing my personal capacity to an impressive 30.

Maybe Sheens could deploy this tactic with our squad in preseason. Might make us less injury prone.

Re: Realistic aims : Sun Oct 09, 2016 8:35 pm  

"Look not for correlates of success that confirm conventional wisdom, for these are weak associations, but identify independent predictors that show the path to glory and power, using regression analysis, Amen"

The famous Greek philosopher Gaius Petronius wrote :-
"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning
to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later
in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing;
and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress
while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization."

Maybe those teams who have benifactors with deep pockets should consider this before making wholesale changes to playing staff.
P.S.Mr Peacock,
Nero ordered him to commit suicide for been a trouble causer !!

Re: Realistic aims : Sun Oct 09, 2016 8:49 pm  

Mild Rover wrote:

Look not for correlates of success that confirm conventional wisdom, for these are weak associations, but identify independent predictors that show the path to glory and power, using regression analysis, Amen.

Bingo. You could flog this to Jeremy Corbyn for 500k to use as his next election strategy. Then after your 10% spotters fee, donate the remaining 450k to the club for a marquee signing in the middle 8s. Sorted.

[Mild Rover]

Re: Realistic aims : Sun Oct 09, 2016 8:53 pm  

SirStan wrote:

My thoughts too.

Anyway, how many pieces of lego can you fit up your bum?

You see, this is the sort of imprecise thinking that has led to relegation. Twoers, fourers, sixers? Those little ones that you use as headlights on cars? Without this information, your question is meaningless.

Re: Realistic aims : Sun Oct 09, 2016 9:07 pm  

Mild Rover wrote:

You see, this is the sort of imprecise thinking that has led to relegation. Twoers, fourers, sixers? Those little ones that you use as headlights on cars? Without this information, your question is meaningless.

My rectal Lego retention capacity needs to be reassessed now in the light of this. Meccano is much less complicated.

Re: Realistic aims : Sun Oct 09, 2016 10:25 pm  

craig hkr wrote:

Well I'd expect leeds to be top 4. Cas played great with huge injury list .saints whole back line injured for big chunks.wigan 8/9 first teamers out for whole season .Warrington will improve with great youngsters.catalans could be anything but had big injury list after looking like best team in league early doors. Widnes wakey and us had huge injury list.cant see there being another season quite like it. Not our problem now but I wouldn't be so sure hull won't be back to scraping into top 8 again like normal

Wishful thinking but wont happen