Does this match now make a mockery of that crazy idea years ago that we should become "Calder"?

Along with season tickets - 1800 cash bought tickets sold today so make sure to get yours bought early and don't hope you can pay on the day.

Always made me laugh that only Wakefield is even on the Calder, if we are going for river based amalgamation surely it should have been Leeds and Cas, whilst we should merge with Dewsbury

With 2 points available and Leeds v Saints Wigan v Salford Hull v Shuds it could get very tight.
After Wembley hull away to leeds only 5 days later and Wigan play Saints. With Wakey away to Salford
I can see it going down to the last week end before things are settled.

If we win all of our games, it wont matter



Seriously though, we could finish anywhere between 3rd and 8th and we will need maybe 4 wins from our 5 remaining games to finish in the 4.
Thursday could be a rehearsal for the semi final.

We had better get used to playing on an U13's pitch

I'd respectfully disagree there wrencat. I think when you look at the fixtures everyone's forced to take points off each other. Another 5-6 points would see you get into 4th I'm sure.

If you look at the super 8s in previous years, the top 4 after the regular rounds has barely changed by the end of the 8s cause everyone knocked a few off each other.

Huddersfield are the dangerous ones. They've nothing to play for now and the games they win will put a big dent in some teams top 4 aspirations.

I really hope you can keep Wigan and saints at bay. I think Salford are done now

the river calder meets the river aire at castleford

How can you disagree that winning all our remaining fixtures will guarantee a top 4 finish



I know that we may only need to win 3 but we may have to win 4 or possibly all 5 to be absolutely certain, although I dont see that happening.
At this point in time, every club has chance to make the 8 and depending what happens over the next few weeks, some (like Cas) could rest players.
Hull and Wigan have the CC final to distract them, with clubs notoriously poor the week after the final and then there are clubs who reach a point where they cant make the top 4 and they may choose to plan for next season and blood some youngsters etc.
A long way to go and it will be a real test for Cas to keep going when the hub cap is in their possession.

It's also about beating the right teams.
As long as we beat Wigan Salford and Sts we might not need to beat Cas and Hull.
Clearly it would have helped to beat Giants.

But as said that's only if we are scraping in to the 4. If we win every game we have actually got a chance at second.

It would have been great to beat Shudds but would we have gone in to the game v Leeds with the same sort of attitude.
Anyway that's done and dusted what we need to do from now approach every game like we did against Leeds at least that will give us a good chance . Slipping back not an option.

It really is - and not only is it an option, it's a distinct possibility; we outplayed Leeds in every aspect of the game, no doubt, but they were bloody awful - a mixture of jaded old men and wide-eyed youths. Cas will be a very different prospect - they're absolutely on fire, and losing to them will be no shame.

I aren't disagreeing on that. You said you'd probably NEED to win all 5, and I don't think you do.

Like you say, hull and Wigan have a cup final next week, Salford look done and dusted..... It's probably between you and saints for 4th, but they aren't exactly firing on all cylinders. If you get 6 more points you'll breeze it

Another potential sell-out predicted for Thursday. Seems to be the regular line for recent Cas v Wakey games with it never quite turning out like that.
Does anyone know how many tickets have we been allocated?

One game at a time.
I think we've got Cas next

I had us down for one win out of the first two games, but the other way around. It's actually worked out better, as we have taken points off Leeds.

It's almost down to any four from five, with Shudds too far back, Salford fading & the Pies needing to win probably all their games to get into the top 4. One of these games is at the Saints & another at FC, so that's going to be a big ask.

If we win both our home games, and pick up an away win (Salford?), I feel that will be enough for 4th and a trip back to t'lane for the semi-final.

Whatever happens, isn't it great that with just five games left of the season, we are still in contention for a GF place. Two years ago we were two minutes & one Danny Addy kick away from a Golden Point to decide our future.

Absolutely.

People are saying to me "cas will bottle it in the semis / grand final.

If we do it'll be gutting but, 10 years ago we were playing in the championship, and back then it was much weaker than what it is now.

The fact that cas have won the LLS and folk are even TALKING about the predictions for cas in the semis / final is fantastic to me.

There's a lot of pressure on cas to deliver their best form when it REALLY matters but, regardless of the ending, it's the first time in my lifetime I've been able to watch cas dominate the league.

Wakefield are in a very similar boat, and with an what's going on away from the pitch for the club, wherever you finish from here on in, in the grand scheme, it's been a terrific season.

YesI agree. Local jesting aside, I am glad to see both teams up the top end of the league. Makes a nice change from the usual suspects! I also wrote to the Wakefield Express in 2006 and said we should have a shared ground but that never happened!

How many tickets have you folks been allocated?

We've less than 2000 tickets left for Thursday just wondering what your numbers were

Great to see you up in the mix

I hope we can delay the inevitable on Thursday and that we have a good following on the terracing. I picked up a couple of tickets today but forgot to ask about our predicted numbers.

Oh you're such a ray of sunshine aren't you, the floodlights haven't cooled down on the last game you were certain would be an embarrassment, and already the next one is an inevitable failure...:/


blimey its a battle, just keep your browser open on the humble pie thread, save you looking for it should the utterly impossible happen..

I thought that, by the inevitable, he means Cas winning LLS,

I did.

Tickets are rumoured to have sold out, none available to buy on line now.

How on Earth are you getting 16 start with skybet????

Crackers...

Think I'll be taking that.
No doubt we'll trying to be spoil CTRLFC party (like we always seem to do) but they fully deserve it - the league table doesn't lie. However I hope it doesn't come on Thursday and we come away with two points.