There was a 3 minute spell in the 2nd half were you could argue that Rovers were the better team.

We're a team in progress.



We're building for the future.



Let's keep a little perspective.

2008 called. They want their platitudes back.

The annoying thing for me is the missed tackles, we keep going up top, one on one and coming off 2nd best, attacking wise we look ok, but the defence has to be sorted asap.

I don't listen to anyone who finds that mediocre rugby acceptable, when we are paying close to the cap. More fool you!!

He's right though, we are a team in progress, New coach, New players, New plays and structures, its just taking a hell of a lot longer to bed in then everyone thought.

Call it as you will, success doesn't happen over night, I'd allude to Hull's lack of titles but it's a little more complex than that as I shall illustrate in my next missive.

How long we talking about? A season, two?? Look what maguire did at Wigan. A failing squad and then he turned up and streight away, a challenge cup and the league title. Don't forget were paying as much as Wigan for our players and look what our new coach is serving up.

The point is very simple. 2 titles up for grabs each season, maybe 3 if you count the hubcap. You've got two types of team therefore, title-holders and others. The second group will all say they're in a transitional phase and building for the future. They're not going to admit they're stuck in pointless mid table mediocrity or simply trying to avoid losing their franchise forever, are they? If they were once successful, like Bradford, they might put original spin on it and use "rebuilding", but we are where we are until there's any evidence to the contrary. There's not much evidence about, frankly. You may as well have put "we'll only get better". Silly.

Within a cap system, money does not equal success. I do not find our current league position acceptable, but I do think that we need to build in a sustainable way towards being a viable club.



Let me repeat,



Neil Hudgell has employed Craig Sandercock to move us toward a future of Hull Kingston Rovers being a self sustaining business.



Almost twenty years in the wilderness, we nearly died.



We're a middle echelon Super League club, Sandercock has a pedigree of producing youth, he has no pedigree as a head coach. Let me remind you, he turned Uate from a raw player with huge frailties into arguably the best winger in World rugby.



Hull Kingston Rovers is a middling club that we support and love, we had some success in the nineteen twenties and every now and again, every couple of decades from there.



This might lead to nowhere, but Hudgell is looking to secure this clubs future, in the top division, and hopefully with some success.



Too much to ask for a little faith?



Not for me.

Is Welham related to McNamara? After yet another dire performance from him (or maybe that is just a coincidence that it is every time I see him play) that is the only conclusion that I can draw for him being picked for the England squad. Does he ever tackle?

rovers and hull have squads that should finish 7th and 8th. Anything better and the coach has done well. Any less and he hasn't