We can do it with some pack reinforcements who we can sign/loan until the end of the season. There is too much disruption to the squad on a weekly basis caused by short term loans. Let's hope the new owners can call in some favours

There's 14 points available in the bottom 8's with a few additions before we get there starting with Chissy it's all to play for

Keep the faith

At the moment, not a chance we can stay up. The passion and pride is there, but we lack experience, strength and ability.

Without some experienced props, who are not going to just disappear when they are called back, we have no chance at all.

Now with injuries to Pryce, Roche, Keyes, Peltier, Smith, etc, we need some new bodies in and we need them fast.

Over to you Chalmers and Lowe....

Today's result was always on the cards. We can't continue as we are if ChaLowe are genuine about keeping this club in the Championship.

It is very disappointing that Cha-Low have failed to do the big obvious thing and bring some size and experience into the pack. This was from the off the elephant in the room that could kill our chances of survival and sadly they have failed to fix it.



Not too late yet, but Cha-Low have put us behind the 8-ball. Why, I don't know. Maybe they really really don't have any money that they want to put in to give us a chance.



Anyhoo with a pack we'll scrape survival, as we are, we won't. This much is obvious to everyone else so I assume they clearly know.



And don't give me any crap about nobody being available, there's always people available from somewhere. We used to be the only club in the world incapable of finding a scrum half, now it's props. I'm seriously worried. Our young lads have done miraculously but the pigeons have come home to roost at Easter and we shouldn't be gambling on the kids to survive because everyone surely can see that's a losing bet.

I'm trying to look at it this way. Half the season is gone and we have earned 10 points to get us to minus 2.. Do that again in the second half and we will finish on 8.



Swinton and Dews may finish the first half of the season on 4 points. Do that again in the second half and they will finish on 8. Our points difference is far superior to theirs so we would potentially be ahead of them going into the bottom 8 competition.



There will then be another 14 points to play for.



There is a long way to go yet.



However with the injuries we now have I agree, reinforcements are now a necessity. You would hope that the likes of Leeds and Salford will send us Murray and Oledski now for the rest of the season given that they haven't played them at all in the first half of the season and have just got past the hardest weekend of the year.

It's not that simple though, is it...



1. We can't sign anyone from overseas until this blasted visa situation is finally resolved (hopefully it very soon will be?)



2. We can't sign any available part-time players because we can't pay them enough to go full-time



So, by [i'available' [/iwhat we actually mean is [i'available existing full-time players resident in the UK[/i' which limits the pool somewhat.



I just spent an idle half hour trawling through SL squad lists looking for props who might be available on anything more than a short term loan (a season long loan for example) but really couldn't find much. I'd be interested to see any names - even the perennially quoted Ryan Bailey is no longer available.

That's the point though, we can't afford to gamble our survival on loanees maybe being available.



And it's now nearly May, and everyone else in the world has a serviceable pack, we failed, stop making excuses for them. It was their job not yours or mine.

Everyone's else didn't start in January trying to assemble one either

Surely those in charge were selected because of the expertise and top experience they have in the game. Therefore, it surely must follow that they need to invest in team strengthening quickly. Without financial backing, how on earth can we get back on the ladder?..There is still a stadium to maintain as well, so which would be the cart and which the horse? Even with the best supporters in the World success needs to be an option otherwise attendances will fall.This really is hardly in the best interests of the Club as behind the scenes delays are impacting on it with every game lost.Time for someone to show they are not only at the helm, but steering us on a true co.

The team need to realise that if they keep losing games by their mistakes it will be too late to put things right

I imagine they know that. But to be fair, their mistakes didn't lose them the game today. They didn't help, of course they didn't. But mistakes come with fatigue and having a load of 18/19/20 year olds getting a hammering by big old gnarly forwards week in week out is going to wear them out.