The biggest "kick in the teeth" so far is the side HKR have picked for tomorrow. I don't blame them: they've won their matches and are entitled to do it but it rather devalues the whole Qualifier system when something like this can happen at such a vital stage. The RFL need to look at devising a system where this sort can't happen.

Of course we shouldn't have got to the stage where we have to rely on others but "C'est la vie" as they say in Perpignan.

Must be nice to know you can field a different squad.

No one cared for Hull KR when Leeds put out a weakened team at Huddersfield last year and lost. A Leeds win would of seen us stay up. But that game was nothing to do with us and not in our control. We can only control the games we play in.

You had TWO home games against a Championship side and the side that finished bottom of Super League and lost them both. It's not Rovers fault if you go down for putting out a changed side against Catalans.



Now we are up we are sending players who needed ops for them instead of having to wait for the end of the season. It's all about been ready for next year now.

True Harold, it's all 'ifs' and 'buts'.

I keep having nightmares about this sequence of results:

Leigh beat 'Fax. (Leigh on 6 points)
Cats win at HKR (Cats on 8 points)
London win at Widnes (London on 7 points)
Widnes win at Cats (Widnes on 8 points)
London beat Leigh (London on 7 points)



Wonder what the odds are on that, not impossible, set of results?

What are the chances of Widnes, Catalans and Leigh all having 8 points just before the Catalans v. Widnes match starts next Saturday, meaning a draw would see Widnes safe and Catalans having home advantage in the million pound game?

Although that would be a better scenario than the one in my nightmares, CL. (especially as our away form seems to be better than our home form at the moment. I would much rather play Catalans in the MPG, than Widnes!

And, while we are on the subject of next weekend's final round of fixtures, isn't it usual to play them all at the same time?