I take it all back, we’re mint!!!

Think the phrase is 'gutsy win'!

Thought we started well and deservedly took the lead, but in the twenty minutes up to half-time we lost our way and looked so ragged, our composure and discipline evaporated suddenly. Guess Cartwright calmed them down a touch in the break as we looked a touch calmer and more organized on the restart, but until the intercept I struggled to see where we were going to score.

We got there in the end and it sure wasn't very pretty, but a thumbs up for attitude and sticking in there which we didn't have throughout 2024. 

We're short on bodies and short on quality, but then most of us already knew that before a ball was kicked or ran in anger. We are where we are right now and there is no getting away from that. It will be a difficult watch for a good while yet, but we've no choice but to tough it out and stick with them.

On the plus side, as things stand right now we're in a play-off spot so it's not all doom and gloom (for some of us at least)  

I think the Huddersfield game is the embodiment of where we are as a club at the moment. Some useful youngsters , some useful oldsters, a few injuries, use of what we can get from players available to bolster our deficiencies. Those are go forward, back row and centres. Need Jed Cartwright back which is imminent, we have 2 new forwards coming in in Eseh and Knight, there’s some youth to blood in the centres and there’s recruitment for next season. Like Salabio too. We’ve won 2 of 3 and are fully aware of the task in hand. In JC and Myler we have started the evolution - it will be slow. The Wigan game shows the distance we have to go but we’ll be there in 3 or 4 seasons with a favourable wind. For now we have to endure the embryosis if that’s a word with true support and trust. Tough next week but it will be a good gauge with a better forward pack

Have to say that reading this forum I think virtually everyone on here realises how deep into the hole we dug ourselves and how hard it is going to be to clamber back out of it once more.

Everyone that is, apart from one poster (guess who!!!) who seems to have a beef because our DOR, who had been in the role a matter of weeks, was unable to persuade half the current Australian test team to come and play for a side who virtually hit rock bottom last year.

Reading everyone else's post, I get the impression we are all very realistic about where we are at and, hopefully, where we are now heading. But, as you say, it's a long process, one that will only be achieved by a lot of hard work by a number of people, supporters included.

Anyway, the sun's out, it's a nice day and the Fc won last night so it can't all be doom and gloom for most of us, can it!!!