Is that meant as a rhetorical question? I mean I`ll be HOPING (with muted expectations) that we can win the last two but then again I`ve been hoping we might win the other home games as well, so I`ll be taking nothing for granted. We`ve lost so many by the odd point or six that our luck has to turn doesn`t it? You can work out whether that`s a rhetorical question.

No, just in general

I take it you meant "rough with the smooth" but couldn't remember the phrase?

But while our away form is good enough for the eight, our home form is wooden spoon standard. So we're not really anywhere nearer explaining the disparity.

Seven wins from thirteen away from home = 53%. Given that you'd expect us to win about ten percent more of our home games than away, that should have translated into about seven wins from eleven at Odsal - so twenty-eight points that would have put us fifth. It's the home form that has dragged us down.