Well I’m not going again until KFP has gone. 

It’s not an anomaly to miss the play offs for a Powell team though. It’s an anomaly for a post-Smith Warrington team to miss play offs though. Smith got sacked, Powell got another chance, and failed again. With his own team. 


Now people will be anti-Burgess and anti-Powell and that’s fine. But his time here was an abject failure. Kicked out all the “bad apples” and still failed to deliver. 


This year leaves a lot to be desired, but last year and this years cup run is far superior than any single performance under Powell, who never beat a big team with us, let alone got us into conversations about winning anything. 


Sam might not be the answer, but of the past failures, Smith and Price both did so much more without ever going through the complete collapse of 2022. Unmitigated disaster, with only Thewlis to point to as a player that improved under Powell. 

Today's winner.


Why on God's good earth,  are we getting dewy eyed over a fella that almost destroyed us, is beyond me.


What's next?
James Lowes.
Was he all that bad?

Perhaps, perhaps, part of our problem comes from our internal perception that we are a "big club".


We as fans have bought into this rhetoric, although most have now lowered our expectations, but certainly the players, coaching staff and management seem to have a superiority complex that our achievements don't merit.


Why?  We've won a few CCs in the last 15 years and haven't been close to winning the GF for the last 7 at least and are now as far away as ever.


We have a smattering of internationals whose form is up and down like a violinists elbow.


Our recruitment, scouting and retention is appalling.


Our home crowds are little better than most and have flatlined for several years.


Maybe if we stopped acting like we are incumbent GF winners, and actually accepted we are also-rans who have fallen behind the likes of Leigh and started working night and day to become GF winners we might see some progress.


The only aspect of the club that merits comparison with genuinely big clubs is our youth system; but I'll only start slapping backs when we stop throwing money at the likes of Sam Stone, TPJ and Matterson and look like we actually believe these lads are the future.

Yes , any club that wants to succeed has to work at being successful by getting the right mix of players & coaching staff & providing a good product on the field.

The Biffs Back: morrisseyisawire: The one, tiny bit of light at the end of the tunnel is the current crop of youngsters coming through or about to. I don't want to p155 on your bonfire but in the 1st Yorkshire v Lancashire academy game Leeds Rhinos had 11 players out of the 17 man squad that totally demolished the best that were picked from Wigan, Saint and Warrington combined https://www.therhinos.co.uk/article/21749/yorkshire-triumph-in-game-one-of-2025-academy-origin You didn’t p*ss on that bonfire very well. Quality game of RL that academy match.

The Biffs Back: morrisseyisawire: The one, tiny bit of light at the end of the tunnel is the current crop of youngsters coming through or about to. I don't want to p155 on your bonfire but in the 1st Yorkshire v Lancashire academy game Leeds Rhinos had 11 players out of the 17 man squad that totally demolished the best that were picked from Wigan, Saint and Warrington combined https://www.therhinos.co.uk/article/21749/yorkshire-triumph-in-game-one-of-2025-academy-origin You didn’t p*ss on that bonfire very well. Quality game of RL that academy match.