Mild Rover wrote:If we can arrest this dip in form before it turns into a slump, top 4 is possible but it will be tough. Next couple of weeks will see us go into the run-in either chasing the top two or looking nervously over our shoulders.
We've not got too many injury worries, considering how far we are into the season, so we look good on paper. Hopefully they can do themselves justice against Catalans. One more win for another year of progress, 3 more should be enough for the play-offs, 4 would be top 6, I reckon, and 5/6 top 4. Looking at the fixtures though, the last would be a very decent effort. Rovers' trips to west Yorkshire haven't yielded much in SL (1 win against Hudds in 2007 and the draw against Bradford this year is all, iirc), so that is almost as bad as our June hoodoo.
And, of late, our being on telly hoodoo!
I did expect that, especially with the goings on at the JJB recently, a win at home against Wigan would be a formality (which says something about our progress!) and a kick start to our run in, but it was not to be.
Our form in the last 6 weeks has been very poor, even the win at Celtic was hardly emphatic. Something has gone wrong, what and why I don't know but it needs sorting if the season isn't to end in a damp squib. We are a shadow of the team we were early in the season.
A finish outside of the top 4, would be a disappointment after the promise we have shown over the first two thirds of the season.
