I'd presume if the odds play the evens in loop fixtures and the evens play the odds, then it makes sense for the above format so you don't end up playing a team 4 times in the regular season.

I agree the table doesn’t lie. We were the 9th best team in 2018. However the table also shows we only needed 6 additional points to achieve 5th place. Which, when you consider we lost 5 games by a max of 3 points and drew another, shows we weren’t far off competing for the top 4.

We weren’t good enough and need new players but if a few games had gone slightly differently, especially early in the season, I think our season would have had a different feel to it.

it's and buts. you could say that about all sides.

Yep. Afew posters really scraping the barrell here. Embarrassingly.

We were crap last year. So we’re most other teams which is why we were only a few points off 5th. We were still crap though, and the club know this.

You couldn’t say that about Widnes, but your point is valid, which also shows you don’t have to improve much to radically improve your position in the table. As I said turn 50% of the games we lost by 3 points or less around and we’re in 5th place. That doesn’t require a massive improvement.

There is then a gap between that and being a genuine competitor for the Grand Final, but that’s an issue for all clubs bar Saints, Wigan and Warrington and will come with time if we can keep a core ethos and stability in the team.