… it makes next weeks game in France even more significant.

We could be 4 points ahead of them, when 4 points behind was a possibility a few days ago.

Yep, couldn't have gone much better for us. Unfortunately (in one sense} we are compromised by having to try and peak for the cup when our nearest rivals for a top 5 place get the luxury of a week off, so makes Thursday's win more important as no doubt we'll be distracted the week before and after the semi.

London in 12th place are only six points behind Castleford in 5th.

Rovers play London twice, plus Leeds, Huddersfield and Salford, plus Wigan twice away, plus us of course, and one or two others. Tricky, it looks very tight in the bottom 5 or so.

That's a nice little set of fixtures for them to secure top 5. At this point it looks like Leeds are in the biggest trouble. RFL won't like that with their big fanbase and lovely stadium. At least they have 2 points guaranteed when we play there - is it 12 years?

Let's hope salford can do wakey tomorrow and keep a decent gap to them

Yeah, that would be good. What a crazy, yet interesting Super league it is this season (unless you're a Saints fan - then I guess it's quite boring, so far

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It's really interesting, isn't it? With 12 rounds still to go as well (I think?) there are so many scenarios to play out. As said I think Leeds will be worried, although can't imagine they won't replace Watkins they look bereft of ideas at the line in much the same way we did under Agar. Fortunately that seems a long time ago now! From our perspective I think we are done with Warrington already in SL, but still have Saints twice. Can see us tripping up at Headingley a few days before.

Leeds only real threat is Hurrell. Build a game plan which to neutralise him and we should have too much for them and a long over due Headingley win.

I am more concerned about the Derby on 27th. With a new coach, a win yesterday and the possibility of putting some daylight between them and London next week I think rovers confidence could be as high as it’s been in a while when we go there. Would be nice to have Ellis back for this one.

Totally agree about Hurrell. In the same way Agar's attacking gameplan at Hull was to chuck it to Willie Manu and expect a miracle he is doing the same at Leeds with Hurrell in this role. And agree also on Rovers, especially with home advantage. Does anyone have an update on Tuimavave? Seems a long time since we've seen him.

I hope London find a way to stay up. With little time to put a squad together and a smaller playing budget than most they've done a great job. A good reason to look at franchising again imo

The RL will find a way of keeping Leeds or HKR in Super League, especially if both Toronto and Toulouse finish as the top two in the championship , as neither will get any super league tv money and so the pot wont shrink. The contrived fixtures will also go

Agree with that Jake, think Ward has done an excellent job so far and surprised many as most had London down as certs for relegation. If I were a Leeds fan I’d seriously be worried as both London & Rovers to be fair don’t look as bad a Leeds do.
Leeds look absolutely dreadful and very much look like we did under Agar totally clueless. As has been said It’s seems to be a case of get the ball to Hurrell and hope. Can’t see much improvement to come with Leeds.

Be an interesting game against Catalans as to which of the teams for both hull or Catalans turn up. They do look a different side without Bird though.

Yawn. No they won’t.

Are you the same "spegs" who suggested people had stopped posting because of others not accepting differing views?

Salford 44 Wakefield 20

So only Saints and Hull in the top six before the round won this weekend and the gap between us and sixth is now six points.

Win next week and we likely open up a bit of a gap on most of the chasing pack

A big game. As said before I think we'll drop points round the semi final and obviously our points difference is awful so could really do with another win.

Maybe the game after the semi , but don’t see any reason why we should play poorly leading up to the semi . I don’t think getting beat before we play the semi as anything to do with the semi final

The main thing for me is hopefully not picking up too many injuries before the semi.
If we can get Bowden and Savelio up to speed and Tuimavave and Ellis back we have a real good chance of making the final

We have a 6 day turnaround to our biggest game of the season so I think some players, anyone with a niggle, will be rested - quite rightly. Our record at Headingley is terrible, not withstanding that they will be desperate for points and will likely strengthen before then with Watkins going.

Steve Prescott Man of Steel points for the Cas game

3 Kelly
2 Naulago
1 Sneyd

Kelly and Sneyd both joint 6th with 14 points on the leaderboard.

Wow , harsh on Connor

Great stuff. In the years before Radford took over it seemed that our halves were either crocks, juniors or 9s/13s played out of position. To have sorted this out with Connor as back up is excellent work. Kelly on a free as well.

I watched the end of the game again last night and Jake Connor went round all the Cas players shaking hands from what I could see.

The cameras in particular showed him going across to Adam Milner, both players shaking their heads and both having a chat while shaking hands.

Any bitterness and animosity left on the pitch as soon as the hooter sounded.

Great to see.