With the drop goal ideas it is so easy to look back and say we should have done this or that. It is very very rare for sides to go for a drop goal when they are four points up. It just does not happen. If they'd have missed I can imagine most would say "Why the hell are they going for a drop goal ... what a daft idea". 

14 games to go, and chances against the teams we’re competing against. Leeds, Hull, Leigh, Saints and Wakefield are the ones we’re hunting. Over the next 4 rounds, for example, Leeds have us, Saints, Leigh and Hull KR. It’s not unreasonable to think they lose all four, or win all four. Wakefield have Leigh, Wigan, Hull KR and Catalan. Again, they could come out with nothing from those, or win them all. Leigh have Salford, Catalan, Leeds and Wigan. Hull have Cas, Salford, us and Saints which is the best run of all of them, but still it’s within our gift to as a minimum be within 1 point of them in 4 weeks time. 


Those teams will drop points against each other, we just have to pick up our wins. The next few weeks are really important, but the season is far, far from over. 

I can't see how that rule would be correct. Why would the aim action be different depending on whether you or scoring or diffusing a try. Bizarre. 

Saints play Salford TWICE in their next 3 games. Unbelievable. That'll be three times they've played them before we have. I know it shouldn't really matter, but this season it's basically a gift of 2 points and fill your boots time on your points difference.

I refuse to believe that Jack Smith is that well up on the rules….goes against everything we’ve seen from him thus far.

That’s the point though isn’t it, the table lies. If, and I know it doesn’t work like this, but if the highest ranked team won each of the next 6 rounds, the table would put us sixth. It would be KR-36, Wigan-34, Leeds-28, Hull FC-25, Leigh-23, Warrington-20, Saints & Wakefield both 18. 




If you played it out in the same format, highest placed as of today, it would end with us being joint 6th with Saints and Wakefield on 26 points. That’s without us taking a single point of KR, Wigan, Leeds, Leigh, Hull, Saints or Wakefield. Only collecting points off FOUR clubs across 14 games.