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| It can be more enjoyable to win at Headingly in a bad year. I still reminisce about our 1998 win more than many of the wins in our good years.
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| I'm still smiling...we're still relegated, but I'm still smiling. Make of it what you will.
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| a win against leeds is one of the most important result of the season , for a full season we will be able to glote untill (if)they beat us again ,i take great pleasure when a leeds fan glotes to ask if they have won the challenge cup this millennium .
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| Quote Northernrelic="Northernrelic"
I was in two minds when JL was announced as the new coach but he is clearly turning the ship round and the collective effort from the guys in the last few weeks has been great.'"
I was the same. My view was if he couldn't make it happen at Warrington with the financial backing there, how could he turn it round on a shoestring at Odsal. So far I've been proved very wrong.
I just wonder if the experiences at Wire, Salford, Leeds and Carnegie have actually done him some good and he's now able to process everything he's learned and put it into good practice.
Its a fair few years since he played and i'm sure the young lads will look up to him for his playing exploits rather than remember him as one of the lads (which I believe was one of his failings at Wire).
Time will tell but one thing is for certain... how wrong were we not to cut Cummins loose after the Easter fixtures??? It could have been very very different 
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| The one thing you would say about Jimmy the player was that he always played with passion - which he normally managed to keep under control!
Now I know in the modern game there is an awful lot more the coach needs to get across to his team - but putting back the collective pride in the shirt certainly goes a long way and gives me a lot of encouragement for next season.
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| Quote bullinenemyland="bullinenemyland":qyhom1wmI was the same. My view was if he couldn't make it happen at Warrington with the financial backing there, how could he turn it round on a shoestring at Odsal. So far I've been proved very wrong.
I just wonder if the experiences at Wire, Salford, Leeds and Carnegie have actually done him some good and he's now able to process everything he's learned and put it into good practice.
Its a fair few years since he played and i'm sure the young lads will look up to him for his playing exploits rather than remember him as one of the lads (which I believe was one of his failings at Wire).
Time will tell but one thing is for certain... how wrong were we not to cut Cummins loose after the Easter fixtures??? It could have been very very different
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He left Featherstone a much better coach, or so it would appear.
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| I regard the last two results as sticking plasters for amputated legs. Utterly without meaning.
But that's me personally and clearly there are few quite as demoralised as myself. I can see why your average fan might feel better from these results but it's not going to have that effect on me.
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| If we keep winning and finish within 6 points of the next club, that is going to make it even worse as far as I am concerned.
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| Quote Pumpetypump="Pumpetypump"I regard the last two results as sticking plasters for amputated legs. Utterly without meaning.
But that's me personally and clearly there are few quite as demoralised as myself. I can see why your average fan might feel better from these results but it's not going to have that effect on me.'"
I have to agree and I was probably once amongst the more optimistic and positive supporters who posted on here. I'm looking forward to the future and I feel reasonably confident that we have the right people at the club to turn us around. I'm even now quite looking forward to a different challenge in the championship and visiting some new grounds. This season however is dead and buried in my mind and I'll probably only use my season ticket unless I have nothing better to do.
The 2015 season can't come quickly enough for me, so I can once again look forward to my RL at Odsal.
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| There's always an uplift when a new coach comes in but Jimmy's association with the club during a remarkable period of success might just be the difference between his effectiveness here compared to elsewhere. That said with relegation confirmed and the pressure off, the team is unshackled and playing for fun and pride.
I think we need a feel good end to the season as that will inevitably feed into next year. That will obviously be the real test of his ability as a coach.
I think we all know the six points would never have come back so even if we finish within range it's a moot point. Even post-Easter (had Jimmy come in then) I don't think we'd have racked up all the extra points to surmount the deficit especially with the squad situation. The lack of Sky money killed our chances this season.
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| Quote Ferocious Aardvark="Ferocious Aardvark"Nothing?
The only single sense in which they "mean nothing" is in the one limited to our prospects of improving our league position. Other than that, they mean everything they ever did. I don't know about you, but going to Headingley and beating them on their own pitch means a helluva lot to me, every time we do it. It's pretty much a self-contained thing, really. I feed on a win for days afterwards and this one was no different, it felt absolutely fantastic at the final whistle and hasn't worn off yet. Same for the Wigan game, but not just quite as good as away at Headingley. "Ultimately"? Everyone has their own reasons for going, and I'm not knocking them. I suppose if I had to analyse it then ultimately the feeling like at Leeds is pretty much the ultimate for me.'"
It is strange to think that about a decade or so I would have felt the same , beating the bulls home or away meant a great deal , yet somehow last week's result was nothing more than mildly irritating , and that's mostly cos I live in Bradford and lost the bragging rights.
Around the same time you were beating us year in year out , and winning trophy after trophy , did beating Leeds mean as much then ?
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| Quote Leeds Thirteen="Leeds Thirteen":2nuiqqv6It is strange to think that about a decade or so I would have felt the same , beating the bulls home or away meant a great deal , yet somehow last week's result was nothing more than mildly irritating , and that's mostly cos I live in Bradford and lost the bragging rights.
Around the same time you were beating us year in year out , and winning trophy after trophy , did beating Leeds mean as much then ?'" 
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