Is this the most unpredictable season yet? 7 draws already, and shock results aplenty including the wins for Salford and Widnes today.

Not just that I think the quality of the games has increased and there seems to have been a rise in intensity as well IMO.

It's considerably better than last season, which was full of knock-on-a-thons and porous defences. I'm looking forward to seeing how this season pans out.

So after the knee jerking from doom sayers last week about our form (which has been quite good at times) and the outrage at sky daring to show a widnes game I'm wondering whether some of those would like to address today's events.

That being said, I think the level of unpredictability of today won't be seen on Monday or even for a while now. Wigan and Hull are likely to get big wins I would imagine - not to mention Warrington and Hudds.

Are you seriously trying to predict when unpredictability will happen?

On a side note, wins for Hemel and Oxford in the Championship 1 opening day too! Hemel result particularly surprising at London Skolars.

It's called probability.

Precisely. I predict that my predictions may perhaps come true.

Next unpredictable round is pencilled in for the 2nd of June.

It's called a contradiction.

Hull away to Wakey on Monday with the injury list they've got looks far from likely that they'll win, let alone by a big margain. Hudds....who knows, their last game at home they were soundly beaten by Bradford so it's possible Widnes can compete there. HKR beat Wire at home this year so can't rule them out against Wigan. Wire/London I would say will depend on the Wire teamsheet and that they stay focused, they have to go to Leeds the following Sunday and it's the first meeting since the GF, if they go into the London game thinking straight forward 2 points then it could become trickier than it should.

Am I the only one to start singing Nat King Cole in my head as I read this thread?

if hull beat wakefield, that would be a shock! we are poor and totally clueless at the moment, cant keep using the injury excuse, every team has them!

To be fair, if it was shown on Sky and Warrington didn't have a poor game, the likelyhood is you would have got d****d.

As it is, it wasn't on Sky, Warrington were not at the races, but yet you lot played really well. Lets just see if you can back it up away at Hudds on Monday, especially as they are on a bit of a slider themselves at the moment.

A little contradictory if I may say so. A little bit of credit but only because you played poorly?!

However the reality is, we played well and you got dicked! That is all.

Which tune? Unforgettable? Did you forget the name of it?

No shock in us losing to the bottom team on Good Friday - it happens every year !

This year has been terrific so far which is amazing when you consider that folk like Garry Schofield (I know) was saying the game was dying on its feet during the off-season. They couldn't be more wrong. The number of kids coming through is starting to change the make-up of the league i.e. professionalism is instilling a belief that we didn't used to get. It's taken a while to get to this stage but I think we're slowly starting to see the rewards from teams being forced to invest in youth with the reduction of quotas and the salary cap.

With a salary cap you would expect teams to even themselves out and can only be good in the long run. What we really need to see is an increase in skill levels and moments of outstanding brilliance to win close games.

I think this season has been much more enjoyable than last season up to now. Not just the unpredictability of the games, but also the quality has been higher which has surprised me.

Certainly from my own club's point of view, we are playing more watchable rugby even with the loss of Finch, Leuluai, Carmont, Lima, Hock etc.

Most of the televised games have been good fare too, maybe the added incentive of a World Cup place has raised some players' games? Who knows.

Let's hope the gradual increasing on intensity will lead to that.

Mmm. Those tears are so tasty.

No it's not. Unpredictability and uncertainty are entirely predictable. It's the outcomes that are not predictable. An inability to judge an outcome isn't the same as an inability to judge whether you can judge the outcome or not.

I think it's usually just after the Easter period when the whipping boy SL rabble clubs quit pretending they are genuine competitive entities in SL and normality is then restored.

On the flip side today, scores so far:

Bradford 24 Salford 6
Hudds 32 Widnes 0
Hull KR 6 Wigan 42
Saints 38 Castleford 0
Warrington 28 London 14