www.superleague.co.uk/stats/club_stats some interesting reading on there many seem to right fc off, which people are entitled too, im not expecting top 4, would be great but 6th is achievable, second to leeds in a few areas such as metres made and average gains and amongst the top clubs in other areas, quite clearly our problem last season was scoring tries! solve that and we may suprise a few

www.superleague.co.uk/stats/club_stats some interesting reading on there many seem to right fc off, which people are entitled too, im not expecting top 4, would be great but 6th is achievable, second to leeds in a few areas such as metres made and average gains and amongst the top clubs in other areas, quite clearly our problem last season was scoring tries! solve that and we may suprise a few

I think we might be the team that could go either way.

The key changes in players and the positions/ rolls they took in the team need to be filled.

Who will replace Peacock as pack leader ? Who will replace Sinfield's kicking / organization / leadership ? .

How will Sutcliffe / Ward /jjb go after their respective injuries?.

Will McGuire step up more ? Etc etc.



If we get it right early and the confidence grows we could do very well,if we struggle at HB or poor 5th tackle options etc we could have a bit of a rough time.



The additions we signed have all been spot on (on paper) and filled the holes as best as we could hope for and we seem to have more depth and have imo a player to lose in Achurch.



Wigan will be less interesting,their grind it out mentality will work as it always does at home where penalty counts tend to be higher but can Samkins win the away / tough games for them ? How will he go after injury and the NRL failure? He will want to prove he's still a top player and I'd expect nothing less.



Still can't see Wigan getting top spot tho.

Problem is a potential trade off. Whilst at Leeds we racked up points and improved our attack massively from what it was in 2014, we shipped in 219 more points in defence last year compared to 2014 when we had the leanest defence (granted 3 more league games in 2015).



Leeds clearly dedicated a lot of time and effort into improving their attack and the defence took a bit of a hit. What will be interesting to see this year if any coaches have watched Leeds last year and it's caught on and they've decided to loosen the shackles in attack a bit.

I dont see our defence a problem, only 3 games last season, 1 in the super 8s, where we were well beaten



Scoring tries has been our downfall for the last couple of seasons, mainly due to radfords safe rugby gameplan, we need to play like we did in the 8s where we were played some entertaining stuff

I would agree with you, i didn't watch Hull a whole lot last year but when i did you didn't feel like a try was around the corner even when the team got repeat sets in the opposition 25.



For me, Castleford have shown the way for the less fancied sides in how playing an attractive, fearless brand of rugby can pay off.

It's not just whether they want to loosen the shackles, it's whether they have the personnel able to do that. Catalans do. Maybe Wire if Sandow isn't too flaky. But I don't see too many teams who look obvious candidates to play heads-up rugby.

I think hull could do some damage if halves can play well. Like young Logan in the centre and the pack, particularly back row has loads of options. If ellis stays fit he may give them a peacock type leader to follow. I think Pritchard will be a nightmare for rest of the league ( but I can't tip rubbish) Key man could be how young abdull develops and where he plays.

If Pryce starts off poorly expect Abdul to step in, hopefully we will also see a trimmed down Abdul too

I hear Kim Kardashian is jealous

Is Pryce still on top Dollar? needs to start stepping up if he is

Can't see Hull getting above 7th or 8th. Might even slip into the bottom 4.



They recruit big names every year but they haven't got a reliable spine in their team. They're capable of putting in the occasional great performance in amongst a lot of average and poor performances.

On his day he could be the most devastating player in SL. But he can't control a game. Sneyd is decent but average. Still a decent squad who a good coach should comfortably get in the top 8.