Last night brought back the nightmares of the 2015 season, last week brought back the nightmares of a Richard Agar coached team. But despite these setbacks, embarrassing setbacks, I have no doubt we will finish in the top 8. Most probably 8th, but in the top 8 nonetheless. In my view two wins and a draw will be enough to secure our place and it is doable. Saints and Leeds at home are the two most important games now. And I am confident out of Hudds, Wigan and Catalans away we can get something. Chris Chester has been a revelation and surprised me no end. The Catalans game has clearly taken the stuffing out of some of the players.

Wakey have got to be careful, look at Widnes, they were the greatest thing since sliced bread was introduced and suddenly it all fell apart, 8 losses in super league on the bounce. its going to be tough to get those two wins from last 6 games but its doable, we really need a helluva much improvement for our next game to lift the spirit of the team.

Well I think its a tall order but lets see.

Why is everyone so worried. Hull kr have to win 3 out of 6 just to catch us. Salford need 3 wins from 7, unless they get some points back. And even if these two teams do catch us, they'll catch widnes aswell. One more win will be enough for 8th I reckon.

Widnes need 1 win to overtake us. Salford are more than capable of getting 3 from 7. The plus is that many of those are against teams around us.

Although we may need only one or two more wins to secure top 8, at this point in the season with where we are in the league, it would be a major disappointment to scrape into the top 8.
We are currently 6th, on merit and we need to get back to winning ways.
Our fans are both fickle and tight fisted in equal measure and if we make the top 8 and then get tonked every week, we would start next season with fewer fans than if we had battled through the qualifiers.
We cannot and should not be content with just playing out the games, we should now be aiming to finish as high as possible in SL and maybe progress a little further in the cup.
We have already beaten Wigan, Warrington and Catalan and we should be trying to win every game that we have left.

I know it's not likely to happen but, we have to get back on the horse and do the things that helped us win 8 from 10.

I think one of our main problems now is our points difference. we now have the second worst in superleague after the last two heavy defeats. In an increasingly tight league with not much in it, points difference may decide the last place in the top 8. We cannot afford anymore big points diff. defeats.

I agree that once there, I'd love to see them on a run, but I'll be happy to avoid the middle 8's. Anything else is a bonus. I don't think we'll ever see a bottom 4 with teams as good in it (if we accept Leeds, Salford and Hudds are capable of so much more) and we might not see Championship teams as good as Leigh are, because eventually the owners will see no return for the investment and begin to cut back on it (or else the league will change the format if the championship clubs never make it and go back to one-up, one-down).

Tonight's results look to be going well for us so far.

The Trinity pack will be boosted by England, Kirmond, Moore and hopefully Fafita within the next week or so. The backs should have Jowitt and Ben Jones Bishop back....With those fit and in the 17 we should win a couple more games before the end of the season surely...

^well said that man^

My thoughts on the matter also. We've had a really rough couple of weeks in the ranks with suspension and injury

we do need to get back to winning ways though

I'm sure we will make the top 8 but we need to be competing we get there

This.

Do we really? Finishing 8th us all that matters when all said and done. Anything else is a bonus

I'd like to think we could overtake you or Widnes to get top 8 but we have Wigan Saints Warrington Hull Huddersfield and Leeds we do have to only go out of Hull once though

We could do with Leeds finding a bit of form for the run in. They have Widnes, KR and Salford to play.

Where we finish is in our own hands, it's whether the players want to make sure they get 3 wins from 6 and enjoy their off season.
CC has been building for next season, with contract extensions that have not been offered this early at Wakey for a long time.
It's time for the players to think about that.

I am doubting this very much- our only hope is other teams helping us out like what happened on Friday

providing Salford don't get any points back at the appeal maybe putting them back in the top 8 there really is not an easy run in for any of the teams below us. i just hope we don't implode and finish up having to play and beat Cas in the last game of the season at Belle Vue for the 8th spot. after all the good work since CC took over it would be a travesty to miss out on a top 8 finish.

Hull KR's run in is very hard - and Salford need some points back.

It's still in our hands, we just don't want to start a big losing run or confidence can take a big part in things.

Exactly.

Yes we need to get back to winning ways. When we make the 8s we need to be competing and not getting hammered

Confidence and momentum are vital

Getting to the 8s and getting panned every week is not most people's idea of a good time

Wake have a knack of not only loosing games you expect them to win but also starting a winning run for the team involved.

Conversely, this season, we've developed a knack of winning games we're expected to lose.

The wins against Cats, Wire, and wigan great but 4 points can be scratched because of the last 2 games. We should have been more than safe and entering the next games and the C C without a care and no pressure.