Joined: Sep 04 2005 Posts: 1167 Location: In the land of wishful thinking once more. Patiently waiting for our time to finally arrive.
Tinkerman23 wrote:Each division will play two full rounds (22 games) with the top division also playing an extra game at the Etihad for Manchester Magic. The top eight will carry their points into a seven game round robin after which the top four will play Semi finals (1v4, 2v3) to reach the Grand Final at Old Trafford.
Not sure about paying for the round robin games
The 2015 season pass covers the post split games. Wherever we finish, we will have 3 or 4 home games in August/September and these are covered within the season ticket.
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I tipped us to finish in the bottom 4, and I certainly don't think anything has changed to alter my predictions. . Weve been awful, and i cant see it improving anytime soon
Joined: Jan 16 2003 Posts: 6734 Location: At the cider bus, Worthy Farm, Somerset
ok so after today's game we sit on 12 points. we can assume 22 points will pretty much guarantee 8th (and perhaps 20 or 21 might do it). so we are looking at another 5 wins, most likely from the following sources (in order of likeliness)
wakey - home and away. drop any points here and we don't deserve to do it anyway
cas - home. should be more than capable of 2 points here
rovers - either win at newcastle or at their place. newcastle being more likely. both would be nice and is possible
widnes - away. a win on the plastic is an outside bet
saints - home. we have a decent home record against them but i think they will win this time
wigan - home. on current form i would say zilch here
catalan - away. no chance
leeds - away. likewise
so we look like having to win either on widnes home (ahem) turf or poorhouse lane to make it. i can see 4 wins from 9, but 5 is going to be tough. that said if you told me before the season started we would win at hudds, saints and wire i would have thought you insane, so really who knows? if i was to bet on it i would have us falling just short in 9th
Joined: Jul 18 2010 Posts: 1288 Location: where dobbins board & squad live west of the river
berro's best mate wrote:I tipped us to finish in the bottom 4, and I certainly don't think anything has changed to alter my predictions. . Weve been awful, and i cant see it improving anytime soon
Is the next game soon enough?
eastul105 wrote lets be fair Mickey Paea is too good for us.
I can feel I'm going to get a slating for my next comments. But if we do make the 8 what then? Safety and the guarantee of SL next year....fantastic, but the remainder of this season I fear will see us getting battered from one of the park to another. The Warrington result was fantastic, but in general this year has shown that as a club were simply out of our depth and hanging on due the lack of understanding of what is needed to succeed. Then groundhog day will begin again in 2016.
There is a positive to finishing outside of the 8, in I feel it would provide a greater chance of change for the club. Sometimes you have to go backwards before moving forwards.
Joined: Oct 07 2006 Posts: 4932 Location: Drypool Bridge - watching out for invaders from the East.
Lostyorkie wrote:I can feel I'm going to get a slating for my next comments. But if we do make the 8 what then? Safety and the guarantee of SL next year....fantastic, but the remainder of this season I fear will see us getting battered from one of the park to another. The Warrington result was fantastic, but in general this year has shown that as a club were simply out of our depth and hanging on due the lack of understanding of what is needed to succeed. Then groundhog day will begin again in 2016.
There is a positive to finishing outside of the 8, in I feel it would provide a greater chance of change for the club. Sometimes you have to go backwards before moving forwards.
Lostyorkie wrote:I can feel I'm going to get a slating for my next comments. But if we do make the 8 what then? Safety and the guarantee of SL next year....fantastic, but the remainder of this season I fear will see us getting battered from one of the park to another. The Warrington result was fantastic, but in general this year has shown that as a club were simply out of our depth and hanging on due the lack of understanding of what is needed to succeed. Then groundhog day will begin again in 2016.
There is a positive to finishing outside of the 8, in I feel it would provide a greater chance of change for the club. Sometimes you have to go backwards before moving forwards.
I'll go and hide now before the abuse starts.
I completely agree, what's the point scraping into the 8, 10 points behind 4th spot, season may as well be over. If we are to make the 8, need to be in touching distance of 4th
Joined: Mar 14 2003 Posts: 26010 Location: Back in Hull.
Lostyorkie wrote:I can feel I'm going to get a slating for my next comments. But if we do make the 8 what then? Safety and the guarantee of SL next year....fantastic, but the remainder of this season I fear will see us getting battered from one of the park to another. The Warrington result was fantastic, but in general this year has shown that as a club were simply out of our depth and hanging on due the lack of understanding of what is needed to succeed. Then groundhog day will begin again in 2016.
There is a positive to finishing outside of the 8, in I feel it would provide a greater chance of change for the club. Sometimes you have to go backwards before moving forwards.
I'll go and hide now before the abuse starts.
As it stands and we win our game in hand, we would be one point from 4th, hopefully we will perform better in the 2nd half of the season and remain with at least 4 points of the top 4, if not closer.
Despite being pretty poor we have only been battered by Leeds (2nd half) and have played Wigan, Saints, Warrington and Hudds, who will all be in the play offs and we beat 3 of them and should have drawn the other.
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