Would a CC semi final brighten the mood a bit? We're playing pretty poorly at the moment and are very, very beatable. Our coach is also almost as clueless as yours. One side or another will reach the semis and then anything can happen.

An interesting question is, would either Leeds or Hull reaching Wembley serve only to paper over the cracks? I certainly think, good day out as it was, our final last year made our season look a bit glossier than it really was, saving the real wake-up call for this year.

A day out at Wembley would be great for the club and fans...but it would definitely paper over the cracks, the clubs PR team would get at least 5 years mileage out of Agar being the man who 'led us to 2 cup finals'

We haven't beaten an SL side in a knock out game for 3 years though, so i'm not holding my breath.

Table with 9 to go...

5th - Leeds 21pts
6th - Catalans 21pts
7th - Castleford 20pts
8th - Hull FC 17pts

Games left...

Leeds Rhinos:
Bradford (H), Wigan (A), Catalans (A), Hull (H), Salford (A), Castleford (H), Quins (A), Wakefield (H), Huddersfield (A).

Catalan Dragons:
Castleford (H), Bradford (A), Leeds (H), Saints (A), Quins (H), Hull FC (A), Warrington (H), Hull KR (H), Salford (A).

Castleford Tigers:
Catalans (A), Warrington (H), Wigan (A), Bradford (H), Crusaders (A), Saints (H), Leeds (A), Wakefield (A), Hull FC (H), Hull KR (A).

Hull FC:
Wakefield (A), Saints (A), Salford (H), Leeds (A), Wigan (H), Catalans (H), Crusaders (A), Castleford (A), Warrington (H).

Reckon there's about 6-7 wins for Catalans, 5-6 wins for Leeds and 4-5 for Hull and Castleford.

But only takes a couple of freak results to change everything. If Hull beat Wakey (should be favourites) and Saints (shock) and Leeds lose to Bradford (shock) and Wigan (who are favourites) then we'd most likely go above Leeds on points difference. And if Cas lose to Catalans, Warrington and Wigan (who would all be favourites against them) then we'd actually be 6th after 20 games and it'd be in our hands for a home play-off spot.

Aye there's a few twists and turns before the seasons out yet. Would be nice for crusaders to beat salford, leeds to beat Bradford and we beat wakey this round to give us a bit of a cushion.

Cas have a game in hand don't they?

End of season, at best our only claim will be 'we was only 4 mins away from 7th spot'

They do, at Wigan.

i reckon we will finish 7th hopefully anyway

Not good enough though

i know

I think it could go any way TBH (any way being finishing either 7th, 8th, or lower).
But if I had to decide, I'd put my money on us staying 8th for the rest of the season.

Urgh.

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They do, which is why I listed 10 games for them and 9 for the others, and why I put Wigan as a third side for them to lose to and 2 for everyone else when seeing what could happen to make us go 6th in the space of two rounds (after we play round 20, Cas play Wigan midweek).


And Cup winners hopefully

7th 8th ???? blah blah

RUBBISH RUBBISH RUBBISH


Agar must go unless we get a CC FINAL !!! not semi

You'd keep Agar if we lose at Wembley?

Interesting to see that hudgell doesn't embrace failure like our board do

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We did in 2008

And how's that working out?

terrible

There is no ambition at the club. We all know if we did fluke our way to wembley he'll be here for years and they'll be selling shirts and season passes on the back of it

"Fluke"? Isn't that another way of saying we would be "lucky"





I agree though it would cent at least another year, but I can't say I wouldnt like to get to wembley again, fluke or not!

Cement (not cent)

A chance occurrence

Ah I see, a low probability outcome, I getcha

Exactly, no "luck" involved

Would be a strange thing to do with there being no coaches available.



Maybe the Webster brothers can take charge at Rovers and we can have a clean sweep?

So I can't use "luck" but "fluke" is ok, duly noted