Id be Amazed if we reach the play offs, il be relieved when we're officially safe at this point. When you assemble a squad that are a rare mixture of stupid and injury prone...Resulting in at least half the salary cap sat in the stands way too often, its virtually impossible to put a run together, as we found last night.

The focus has to be on performances and setting up for next year. Even if everyone is fit we're way too small up front to take on the best, so finishing in the play offs won't mean much even if we get there. I don't think one week extra rest will make much difference as that's about how long we'll last in the playoffs.

Being too small upfront is a over simplistic view of why we can’t take in the best……

Can't see us making it, keep getting too many injuries to the same players..

There’s little between 6th and 10th, I think any club in that group could finish 6th and any club in that group could finish 10th, it’s still all to play for.

We definitely can make the play offs, which I think is ridiculous, it really does highlight that 50% of the league making the play offs is just too many.

The play offs should be top 4 only, Semi Final play off week 1 with 1v4 and 2v3 then the Grand Final the week later is what it should be.

We arnt capable of having enough players available, for long enough, to put any kind of decent run together, a problem that has plagued us for what feels like forever. Saturday summed it up perfectly, coming off 2 great wins, playing against the bottom team, confidence high...Then we see the squad...Too much cap missing to mention and another chance missed.

I agree that we'r good enough if something suddenly changes and our fare share of players are fit and available, but that never happens for long enough.

Edit...Wrote this before seeing Leemings news, case in point, unbelievable.

We’ll make the play offs, you never know maybe even the grand final, anyone who backed us at 50/1 or 66/1 is laughing

Calm down!
I certainly would't be laughing if I'd backed us at 5000/1.

We might scrape the play offs - but no way can we win it.

Results went for Leeds tonight 6th place definitely looks in reach

We’re 1 point off 6th place with a far superior points difference to the clubs 1 point ahead of us. Of course 6th place and the play offs are within reach.

Plenty said we had no chance of winning against Wigan. The first job is to make the playoffs, if we do make it anything can happen, you’d have to have a very short memory not to realise that.

Bit of a difference between winning one home game and making, progressing in and winning a GF!
Also a big difference between the quality of squad we have now vs the quality of squad we had when we won it from fifth.

If you make the playoffs , there is ashtrays a chance….
Stranger things have happened in sport. Sour depends on injuries and suspensions to whoever is in playoffs….

I agree.
Ashtrays chance.

Regardless of the top six, from the Salford game onwards there is a good chance that Sezer & Austin will get a shot at establishling their half back partnership, and Tet & Holroyd will get a shot at paying back fans and teammates for their disciplinary failings. We'll come up against several teams who have decisively got the better of us in the first two thirds of the season. Avenge the losses against Salford, Huddersfield and Catalans and we send out a strong message to existing and lapsed season ticket holders that 2023 will herald the return of the good times.

Yes agree, plenty of opportunities to finish strongly and get some real positive energy for next season. Still waiting for that good prop to come in though…

Play offs probably out of our hands and having to rely on other results. Will revise this after the Catalan game (first one)

I would say Salford are our biggest competition at the moment. Hull are in decline and Hull KR haven't been doing too well with Warrington three points behind us. If we can win the next three it would put us in with a good chance.

Salford have Saints, us, Hudds and Catalans the next four weeks.

Hull KR have Wigan, Toulouse, us then Saints.

Think to make the play offs we have to win 5 out of 7 that will put us on 13 wins 13 loses 1 draw, that in it self will take some doing and be an achievement, after the horrible start we had.

This thread is madness

Its been one heck of a turnaround, we looked nowhere near contenders in July. Just called it as it was back then.

It certainly has

Squad still needs major improvements, and it would be unfortunate if a final appearance meant that Uncle Gary decided that he could pretend otherwise... again.

With the clearing out of players we either have signing that haven't been announced, or we are still working through some deals. At least 3 of last night's team are moving on

Well I was one of those wrong. At least we're not having the annual debate about whether we should even have play offs and a Grand Final like on TRL.

We clearly need to improve the squad, and with the announced outgoings I expect we'll see a few new names before next season. Maybe not big names but I trust Smith's judgement - all of the outgoing players would have been at the top of my list to move on, and the shakeup in staff has been a long time coming too.