Wires71:
20 years of mitigation perhaps. Im not buying injuries as we were poor with a full side out from the get go this year.
It is indisputable that we have had the finances and facilities to compete with the top clubs for 20 years and yet failed to establish ourselves as one. We nearly did it under Smith but since then it's been a steady spiral downwards.
1 challenge cup in 13 years for countless millions in full cap spend and big name signings.
Whats makes it all the worse is that we are a perennial laughing stock.
As a Hull Fc supporter, of too many years standing, I have a certain amount of empathy with this situation! I too know what it's like to watch my club going round in a seemingly never ending spiral. Players come, players go, coaches come, coaches go, and yet whenever progress is being made, it's not long before we're travelling in a backwards direction again. Yep, know that feeling all too well I'm afraid!!
Only four clubs have won SL since its inception and, in truth, most clubs don't really have the capacity and capability to be able to mount a serious sustained challenge for the title. But at some point in the past 25 years both Hull Fc and Warrington really should have put together a title winning squad and broke up the Wigan-Saints-Leeds triangle. Not convinced anyone else could have but us two, but we've both continually fallen short in this regard.
Watching you from the outside this year, I've no idea why you've been so underwhelming virtually all year. I thought you might kick on from 2024 but it simply hasn't happened for you and you're stuck at the crossroads of decision again. Once more, I know that feeling all too well with my club!!! It'll be interesting to see where you go to from here.
The worse part, for both of us, is watching the dreaded rovers do exactly what we should be doing. They spent the best part of two decades in the wilderness and yet they are increasingly looking likely to achieve a feat which has elusively remained out of our reaches. It's about grabbing the opportunities when they are presented to you. It looks like they will where neither of us did.
Hope it goes well for you, but you definitely look like you're floundering at the moment.
PS If you lose to us next Saturday, think that will be your already slim play-off hopes disappear. If it's any consolation we've not exactly been uprooting trees these past two weekends either, so who knows how next week will unfold!!!
