Didn’t think I’d be saying this at the start of the year but we are seriously close to being pulled into the regelation scrap. After Hull KR’s win against Warrington they like Leeds are 4 points behind, Hudds 2 points behind, Wigan LEVEL on 16 after being miles behind, Salford too could also be on 16 come end of tomorrow. If London pull off a win against Catalans....

Injuries or not we’ve been playing just as poor if not worse since all our main pivots have come back.

There’s 5 teams more worried than us and we have player to come back. A couple more wins would make it easier though.

Up the Trin

We are only going to get better as the weather improves and the half backs get more game time.
It's not a great feeling but I'd rather be in our position than theirs.

Jesus. London putting in a convincing performance. When's the last time you could say that about us?

Well it looks like they are, Salford go above us if they win tomorrow, it's looking a bit dicey.

But if you put on the rose tinted, then at least Catalans won't be three wins above us.

All credit to London but how poor and lethargic do Catalans look tonight.

If Salford win by enough points both they and Wigan will go above Wakefield

Yep, London have beaten Catalans, definitely need a win against Salford.
Going to be very interesting battle between current bottom 8 clubs with only 6 points separating 5th place and bottom 3 who all have 12 points each.

Danny Ward has got to be up for coach of the year. He's doing a great job with London, a bit Trinity-esque of years gone by. I do think as our collective opinion of ourselves has risen over the past 3 years I fear we have lost that bit of mongrel, that instinct to survive, that's dragged us out of seemingly impossible situations. Are we up for the fight now? Time will tell.

Well, no way we will win tomorrow with the slow speed we play at & poor game management & poor application.
I would of course love to win but we are very poor at the moment !

Our points difference is worth 2 points so providing we don’t take any major hammerings the bottom 3 have to win 3 more games than we do. I reckon we’ve got a few more wins in us this season.

Up the Trin

About as poor and lethargic as we looked against them......twice.

We only have ourselves to blame if we get sucked into a relegation scrap. The 2 London 'efforts' the HKR game at home, nilled at home to Leeds, and to a lesser extent the home defeat to Saints could define our season.

You might be right but I’ll still be in Perpignan watching the Trin and hoping Catalans play the same as tonight.

Lose tomorrow by 14 points or more and we slip into 8th place, and bang into the middle of a relegation dog fight with teams who have beaten us and are winning. Simply not good enough from the club

I said the same last week following the Leeds defeat,and some thought I'd lost the plot.

I do think we'll be ok, but we do need to start picking up some points quickly

will you be giving free bus advice again in Perp BLM?

Sure will

take some strange routes them Perpignan buses they do

I hope none of the players read this forum or they might start to believe there is no point turning up to Salford. Some of you seem to get off on running down the team. I rarely go to a game and see a lack of effort and that is the only time they deserve such negativity. Get behind the players and MC they are doing there best with a bad run of injuries and a small budget.

Totally agree.

Up the Trin

After watching Wigan and Leeds play on fri I don’t think we are any worse than those two with half our squad sat on the side lines .Get the team fired up for Salford today and once again we’ll be looking forward and not behind us

Salford do have a habit of slapping our backsides though. The big worry for me is the Lui/Hastings match up with Brough/Miller. The Salford pair ooze class.

My thoughts also

A win today and we are back on the front foot

I think what happens when you go through an injury crisis is that when you are in the early stages of it players dig in and a bit of a backs to the wall mentality kicks in, you win games that you don't expect to given the players you have missing. Then when you get to a stage when a couple of players come back into the side, expectations are high and you have a bit of a slump. This is all the more frustrating because the fans think that 'if we can beat X-Y-Z with all those players missing we should be winning now with bodies back' this makes it harder to swallow when you lose a few.

Whatever the reason for the slump when players are back (wear and tear on the non injured players/players rushing back to early) it's a pattern you see repeated.

I think we're in our post injury crisis slump, need to get ourselves out of it quickly before we get dragged into the dog fight and pressure starts to build from the teams below and around us.

Points difference getting worse. And probably past -70 after next week's thrashing from Warrington

Maybe they do read it because they haven't turned up. Again.