Re: Wakey Round 1 : Tue Jan 28, 2020 9:57 pm  

Mild Rover wrote:

It’s true (not the Hudds-specific bit), but it feels a bit deflating. We had at least hoped to get the starting line feeling like 7th or 8th and breaking the cycle of struggle-struggle to recruit-struggle might be realistic.

Oh no, it's Hudds specific for me - I dream of the day their tin-pot club and tin-pot fans are gone from SL forever. Detestable, parasitic, non-entity of a club.

Re: Wakey Round 1 : Wed Jan 29, 2020 6:32 am  

dboy wrote:

Oh no, it's Hudds specific for me - I dream of the day their tin-pot club and tin-pot fans are gone from SL forever. Detestable, parasitic, non-entity of a club.

I take it you do not like HUDDs LOL

Re: Wakey Round 1 : Wed Jan 29, 2020 8:30 am  

As a Rovers fan, I have felt that deflated over the past couple of seasons that I wish someone would just put us out of our misery. The only way out of this cycle is to overspend rather than hoping we have a good season and signing projects. Its all well and good the Chairman saying we will be utilising the Marquee player rule next year, but its this year we need to use it. Next year may be too late.

I'll be there on Friday cheering the team on but I fear that we will lose and it will set the tone for the rest of the season.

Re: Wakey Round 1 : Wed Jan 29, 2020 9:54 am  

I'll be there on Friday cheering the team on but I fear that we will lose and it will set the tone for the rest of the season.[/quote]

Sadly,I agree.Really hope I am wrong, but this feeling is probably because since we went back to SL in 2006/07,apart from a small window of excitement and hope under Justin Morgan when we finished 4th it,s been a constant struggle.
The support is loyal and better than many who would turn their backs if they had to endure what we have, but we really should be a better performing team than we have been.
It needs to happen asap.Please, not another season of struggle.
Good luck the boys, it,s time we had some...good not bad.

[Mild Rover]

Re: Wakey Round 1 : Wed Jan 29, 2020 9:51 pm  

Old Timer No 4 wrote: Sadly,I agree.Really hope I am wrong, but this feeling is probably because since we went back to SL in 2006/07,apart from a small window of excitement and hope under Justin Morgan when we finished 4th it,s been a constant struggle. The support is loyal and better than many who would turn their backs if they had to endure what we have, but we really should be a better performing team than we have been. It needs to happen asap.Please, not another season of struggle. Good luck the boys, it,s time we had some...good not bad. It’s good to some positivity from Tony Smith here: https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... im-3787262 There are some familiar themes from previous seasons - building for the future, playing a more expansive game and not getting drawn into the arm wrestle, giving their best even though that won’t necessarily mean winning - and we all know it didn’t always work out too well previously. I want to be optimistic, and maybe this time will be different, but equally we have to be realistic. It is a new team (and after some of the performances last year it probably needed to be) and it’ll take a while to gel, when i don’t think we can afford a slow start. See where we are 6 in or 8 weeks, I guess.

Old Timer No 4 wrote: Sadly,I agree.Really hope I am wrong, but this feeling is probably because since we went back to SL in 2006/07,apart from a small window of excitement and hope under Justin Morgan when we finished 4th it,s been a constant struggle. The support is loyal and better than many who would turn their backs if they had to endure what we have, but we really should be a better performing team than we have been. It needs to happen asap.Please, not another season of struggle. Good luck the boys, it,s time we had some...good not bad. It’s good to some positivity from Tony Smith here: https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... im-3787262 There are some familiar themes from previous seasons - building for the future, playing a more expansive game and not getting drawn into the arm wrestle, giving their best even though that won’t necessarily mean winning - and we all know it didn’t always work out too well previously. I want to be optimistic, and maybe this time will be different, but equally we have to be realistic. It is a new team (and after some of the performances last year it probably needed to be) and it’ll take a while to gel, when i don’t think we can afford a slow start. See where we are 6 in or 8 weeks, I guess.

Re: Wakey Round 1 : Thu Jan 30, 2020 1:44 am  

Off Topic & just FYI sorry to interrupt but we're running our annual charity predictions comp over on the Wakefield Forum, now in its 13th year: viewtopic.php?f=33&t=627550 This year we're raising money for the Rob Burrow fund and the Mose Masoe fund. Everyone is welcome if interested, just a simple pick a winner format. Good luck for the season ahead Cheers

Off Topic & just FYI sorry to interrupt but we're running our annual charity predictions comp over on the Wakefield Forum, now in its 13th year: viewtopic.php?f=33&t=627550 This year we're raising money for the Rob Burrow fund and the Mose Masoe fund. Everyone is welcome if interested, just a simple pick a winner format. Good luck for the season ahead Cheers

Re: Wakey Round 1 : Thu Jan 30, 2020 1:46 pm  

Mild Rover wrote: It’s good to some positivity from Tony Smith here: https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... im-3787262 There are some familiar themes from previous seasons - building for the future, playing a more expansive game and not getting drawn into the arm wrestle, giving their best even though that won’t necessarily mean winning - and we all know it didn’t always work out too well previously. I want to be optimistic, and maybe this time will be different, but equally we have to be realistic. It is a new team (and after some of the performances last year it probably needed to be) and it’ll take a while to gel, when i don’t think we can afford a slow start. See where we are 6 in or 8 weeks, I guess. I usually read the first as "our first team will struggle so we're aiming for 11th", the second as "we're going to lose games until the summer then I hope we'll run rings round teams" and the third as "we've an underpowered pack". Would that be fair?

Mild Rover wrote: It’s good to some positivity from Tony Smith here: https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... im-3787262 There are some familiar themes from previous seasons - building for the future, playing a more expansive game and not getting drawn into the arm wrestle, giving their best even though that won’t necessarily mean winning - and we all know it didn’t always work out too well previously. I want to be optimistic, and maybe this time will be different, but equally we have to be realistic. It is a new team (and after some of the performances last year it probably needed to be) and it’ll take a while to gel, when i don’t think we can afford a slow start. See where we are 6 in or 8 weeks, I guess. I usually read the first as "our first team will struggle so we're aiming for 11th", the second as "we're going to lose games until the summer then I hope we'll run rings round teams" and the third as "we've an underpowered pack". Would that be fair?

[Mild Rover]

Re: Wakey Round 1 : Thu Jan 30, 2020 7:49 pm  

Highlander wrote:

I usually read the first as "our first team will struggle so we're aiming for 11th", the second as "we're going to lose games until the summer then I hope we'll run rings round teams" and the third as "we've an underpowered pack". Would that be fair?

Certainly that is how it has turned out in the past, and the fear it that history repeats.

The hope is that Smith’s blend is different... somehow.

I feel obliged not to talk us down before our season kicks off, but you can’t help but worry based what has happened when we’ve tried similar previously. A major mitigating factor this time - there was no feasible alternative.

Re: Wakey Round 1 : Thu Jan 30, 2020 11:51 pm  

Its all a bit of a give us a clue at the start of the season for absolutely everybody, we went to London 1st game of last season with a full squad of 1st choices and got splattered.
We're light in the pack, missing some 1st choices and playing a few niggles so anything could happen.
Its really a waste of time trying to analyse anything when you have sweet FA game time to assess and create an opinion from.
I'd like to think we'll be able to repeat the feat of a few weeks ago now it actually means something, but its all up in the air for both teams tbh.

Re: Wakey Round 1 : Fri Jan 31, 2020 9:30 am  

Who’s the bookies favourite for relegation ?