Do you notice the flaw in your post?

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you might as well say If we sign Cam Smith and Cooper Cronk...

26 points on offer against last years bottom six
should realistically be targeting 18/20 of these
Unfortunately looks a bit `pie in the sky' at the moment

What Ellis will bring is leadership, which we're lacking in massively.

Absolutely. We really need someone with a big "gob" on the pitch, letting them ALL know what is required. I sometimes wonder if PG has a nasty streak in him because the players don't appear to be afraid of any reprisals if they don't perform.
Like the rest of the misguided individuals on this forum I will be there on Friday and, no doubt, putting more effort into my performance as a fan than some of the well paid people on the pitch. Its time they took some responsibility for what goes on because, as I've said elsewhere PG cannot do anything once the whistle blows.

This thread is sadly becoming relevant ! I am not sure how I will react if we lose at Wakey and at home to Dragons , both are loseable based on performances

Probably the absolute minimum required for 8th spot is 24pts (and that is the absolute minimum).
For us right now that means 9 victories from 18 games (maybe 10, possibly even 11 wins needed).
We've still to play Cats & Wigan twice plus Leeds,Wire,Hudds & Sts once more plus two derbies away from the KC.
We are not leaving ourselves a great deal of room for error.
Right now, our chances of finishing even 8th are little more than 50/50. Considering we are not even into April yet this is a depressing state of affairs, even allowing for the fact that everyone's somewhat down in the dumps tonight.

Certainly none has Stevo`s "White line fever."

Even if we scrape 7th or 8th, we get beat in the 1st play off round anyway

We'd settle for that presently.

We would indeed. As I said above, I reckon our chances of taking part in a play-off match in 2013 are about 50/50 as things stand (and frankly, that's being optimistic).

Correct and seventh or eight is of course no achievement. Sixth would be disappointing.

the super league table is not looking pretty for us!! looking at top 8 the only team in there that are punching above there weight is rovers IMO they deserve to be in there at present but i don't think they will be there come end of the year and i don't think we will be either. every team in there barring rovers and Bradford (if we are full strength) are better then us unfortunately so i don't see us getting into that group this year!!

twitter.com/leefc74/status/31793 ... 28/photo/1 Just seen this. I'm starting the 13 in BEL13VE wasn't related to 2013 but rather the position were gonna finish in.

twitter.com/leefc74/status/31793 ... 28/photo/1 Just seen this. I'm starting the 13 in BEL13VE wasn't related to 2013 but rather the position were gonna finish in.

Look at that fecking points difference

I think we will improve.

The injuries are killing us at moment and that can not help confidence prior to a match and may create complacency to places as no one's going to get dropped for the following week. We have to start doing the basics. We are dropping too many simple passes (we passed up cheap possession three times in the first 20 minutes on Friday).

Realistically, I don't think our form will pick up until after the Les Cats game, so any points from Wakey or Les Cats will be a bonus. Salford are coming into form, so that will also not be easy.

The cup weekend may prove to be a turning point. Hopefully we'll get an easier draw this year, we are due one! Then with a week off from League duty, we should have a few players back to hopefully put some form together.

Getting a fit Ellis & Holdsworth back will help lead a charge towards the play offs. Maintaining a fit squad will be another thing. So perhaps we may have to target the cup this season.

A long running thread with a touch more relevance ? or am I on mushrooms ?

Shitake?

Only thing is IF we lose to Giants , Wildcats beat Vikings and Saints beat Cas then we are 8th by 1 point to Wcats who have a game in hand with only 6 games of the season left.

on the other hand if and its a big if we can pull our season round we could finnish in top 6 and have a run out to wembley , long shot i know but what the heck,

More of a "p*ss take".

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James Smailes tweeted earlier that we need to win 6 of our last 7 to equal last seasons points tally, so looks like we will be heading backwards after all the pre season hype.

Hudds (H) - L
Bulls (A) - W
Widnes (H) - W
Rovers (A) - L
Salford (H) - W
Wigan (A) - L
Saints (H) - W

Only redemption for this season is a CC appearance / win and if we progress in this comp will probably suffer at least 1 more SL defeat to the predictions above.

Of course I hope I am proven completely wrong.......(apart from a CC win)

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league ... ague/table The table

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league ... ague/table The table

Widnes down are out of the equation and if we beat Bulls in our next SL game there also sunk which will leave 8 from 9.

Was having a discussion with a Rovers fan earlier today. Even though we have been disappointing recently I expect us to win at Bratfud and also beat Widnes at home. Rovers in the meantime have Warrington away and Wigan away, then we play at Caravan Park with both teams potentially on 24 points........