Before we use to win 6 or 7 matches = 12 to 14 points apart from our last season in SL. On a good season we could win 10 = 20 points, so what's our predictions?
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Bookmakers have Cas and ourselves as the least likely teams to win the League with Huddersfield the other big outsiders. I think we need as fans to be realistic, the transformation of our club over the last year has been staggering, its unbelievable, its amazing and what a fabulous season we have just enjoyed. SL 2025 is arguably on paper the toughest yet, would it be fair to suggest that ourselves, Cas, Hudds, possibly Hull and possibly Salford ( depending on how they come through their financial challenge and there by the grace of Matt Ellis go us ) are in a mini league and to finish 8th would be a fabulous achievement for us. To finish 8th would we need 11 wins ? 11 wins would be a great season and we as fans should be very happy with that, 5 wins would be poor , 6 or 7 wins would be expected by pundits and outsiders I think. That said I am 100 % confident that Matt Ellis, the coaching team and players will all be aiming higher than 11 wins.
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bellycouldtackle wrote:Bookmakers have Cas and ourselves as the least likely teams to win the League with Huddersfield the other big outsiders. I think we need as fans to be realistic, the transformation of our club over the last year has been staggering, its unbelievable, its amazing and what a fabulous season we have just enjoyed. SL 2025 is arguably on paper the toughest yet, would it be fair to suggest that ourselves, Cas, Hudds, possibly Hull and possibly Salford ( depending on how they come through their financial challenge and there by the grace of Matt Ellis go us ) are in a mini league and to finish 8th would be a fabulous achievement for us. To finish 8th would we need 11 wins ? 11 wins would be a great season and we as fans should be very happy with that, 5 wins would be poor , 6 or 7 wins would be expected by pundits and outsiders I think. That said I am 100 % confident that Matt Ellis, the coaching team and players will all be aiming higher than 11 wins.
I hope they are aiming higher, but I'm am realistic enough to accept if we win 10 games we'll have gone very well. That would put us in the 8th to 10th placings IMO.
Could throw Hull FC into that lower table mix too. And I don’t think Leigh - with a couple of players out injured - are much stronger than us. That’s what makes this season so good - we could win between 5 and 15 games. So I’ll go in the middle with 10!
I've got a target of 10 wins which would be a solid season back in SL in my opinion .
Obviously I'm hoping for more and a cheeky stab at 6th place which would probably require 15 wins but I'll settle for 10 .
What's not getting mentioned is the momentum we have from last season which hopefully may yield us some points in the difficult opening month of the season and set us a bit of a platform .
Momentum is sometimes massively understated in sport and this club is on a real high at the moment , I can easily see us going to Headingley in the first game and causing an upset .
I can hardly wait for opening game at Headingley , we are going to backed by at least 3k fans in my opinion and for the first time I can remember going there with real belief rather than a bit of hope .
BarnsleyTrinity wrote:I've got a target of 10 wins which would be a solid season back in SL in my opinion .
Obviously I'm hoping for more and a cheeky stab at 6th place which would probably require 15 wins but I'll settle for 10 .
What's not getting mentioned is the momentum we have from last season which hopefully may yield us some points in the difficult opening month of the season and set us a bit of a platform .
Momentum is sometimes massively understated in sport and this club is on a real high at the moment , I can easily see us going to Headingley in the first game and causing an upset .
I can hardly wait for opening game at Headingley , we are going to backed by at least 3k fans in my opinion and for the first time I can remember going there with real belief rather than a bit of hope .
Wouldn’t be ann upset against a team who didn’t make playoffs. It’s a winnable game against a team we should be looking to compete against.
I’m expecting to win around 50% of fixtures. I think that’s a reasonable and achievable baseline target. Maybe around 13 wins. Something to really build on and be in and around playoffs at the business end.
For finishing position I’d be personally disappointed with anything below 8th to be honest.
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