Certainly looks ugly. Hope it doesn't get hushed up by the RFL and Wigan and proper action is taken.

Without knowing any facts, its hard to comment. Of all the teams to be involved in an incident such as what is rumoured, Wigan is the least suprising.

Any Way, back to what's important. Win against Widnes & we're mathematically guaranteed top 8 for another year, that's achievment number 1 done. Saints/Wire on Thursday, historically a Saints banker, but I'll be hoping for a Wire win, so we could potentially go 8 points clear of 5th.

Week after is our game with yourselves, winner of that will probably be top at the split.

then you play catalan which wont be easy either, they could easily pip us both to top place at the split

if we have 6-8 point gap over the team in 5th i'll be delighted, thats a big advantage trying to keep in the top 4

Yes, agree, we need to do a number on Saints for all the top 4's sake.

Saints are not consistent enough to claw that difference back for me, which leaves FC, Wire, Cats and Wigan in the GF shootout. Which i'm sure we'd all be happy with right now.

thankfully its not at the haliwell jones

at least you can beat saints at their ground, and if you do, cunningham will claim to be deserved winners

Wow, slight overreaction don't you think?

This thread is also full of comments about "7 more games". After last year's confusion about the new system, it was a reminder that being top after round 23 doesn't get you anything.

As for Mrs B, I didn't realise the bookies cashed out after 23 rounds. I double checked that to make sure. Wish I'd have bet on that now instead of the Grand Final, although Bet365 are offering me 250% of my original bet if I cash out now!

What we want is for the current top 4 clubs to keep on winning (excluding one or two games , of course).
This will push us further ahead of the 5th placed team, and the final 7 games should see us well in contention for a GF semi.

Not really. As long as we keep winning, we will push ahead of 5th place. It doesn't matter what 2nd-4th do. Really, we want 2nd-5th to keep losing!

Not really?

If the top 4 keep winning then 5th place will be almost out of the reckoning before the final 7 games even start.