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The way I look at it is; we've been poor away from home all season, so on the face of it we would probably lose 2 out of 3 away games no matter who we played. This way, we play the 3 best teams (In my opinion) away from home and the 4 lesser sides (again, my opinion) at home.
Say, we played Hull, Wire, Saints and Leeds all at home, and we travelled to Castleford, Huddersfield and Catalans. There's a big chance that we would lose at the very least 1 home game and at the very least 1 away, bearing in mind our recent form at Castleford and Catalans.
As it is, I'm sure we can all agree that we expect us to win every home game in the Super 8's. And I'd like to think that we will take some revenge on Saints after that awful showing last month.
Therefore, these set of fixtures are the best we could have hoped for.