Keighley 40-20 Gateshead

Well done Keighley and an encouraging result for us as I see Gateshead as on a par with us or maybe a bit above.

Had a look on the Cougars site to see if they'd got the teams listed (curious as to the strength of the Thunder team). First thing I noticed was Shaun Leaf (well the back of him!)

... and the Thunder site can't be accessed. Taken the defeat badly!

Sheffield 38-16 Hunslet

I think my hands have just about defrosted!

Batley 18-22 Doncaster
Featherstone 10-6 Leigh
Oldham 54-4 Rochdale
York 36-6 Whitehaven

An encouraging Whitehaven result there.
And Fev looking good.

Table so far

Remaining games for each club:

York – Batley, London

Fev – Dewsbury, Workington

Leigh – Swinton, Whitehaven

Dewsbury – Featherstone, Batley, London

Haven – Workington, Leigh

Donny – London, Swinton

Batley – York, Dewsbury

Workington – Whitehaven, Fev, Swinton

Swinton – Leigh, Doncaster, Workington

London – Doncaster, York, Dewsbury

We have to finish in the top 4 do we for automatic progression?
And are there any best losers going through Jemmo?

So looking at that, York will almost certainly progress, as would Fev you'd expect.

So that leaves 2 more places to get through:

I;d expect Leigh to get at least one win but probably 2 to get through, leaving one more spot:

Haven have a couple of tricky games, but would expect them to win one of them at least (them playing Leigh helps us should we win our last 2 games as they can't both win)

I'd suggest the rest are struggling now unless they turn something majorly around.

But the cut and thrust seems, win our last 2 games and progress

No

Top 4 of each pool

My bit is the bold bit....too lazy to retype.

Yeah looking at it again, unless Batley beat Dewsbury, i expect them to pip us.

Have to admit I missed Dewsbury when I was looking a the table



Yes they are in a good position. Youd expect London to be a home banker, and to probably beat Batley...so as you say in this case it may come down to points difference (if we've done our job) which they have a lot better than us atm

As we sang last night..."Blackpool's getting boring" anyway

Think we are gonna need a big win against Swinton to Progress!!!

wsbury winning didnt help.....cant see how we can go through now.

A good win though....it's a bugger when three wins out of four have you NOT progressing.
It's a tin-pot competition anyway....one which has shown us to be OK and capable of stopping up IMHO.
COYD

Yeah looking tricky now, but not impossible I suppose...not sure when the other teams have their games in hand.

It's become a league of those who managed to get a binus point in the games they lost in

A Whitehaven win at Leigh (unlikely perhaps but not impossible) would see us go through if we win by a bigger margin than Whitehaven.

Considering that even if Dewsbury Rams lose to Batley Bulldogs, they still have a 'get-out-of-jail-free' fixture in London to play and adding that York City Knights have the Skolars as visitors this Sunday, the only other fixture which offers some hope is a Workington Town win at home to Featherstone Rovers. Looks a little like straw-clutching but to be fair trips to Workington are not everyones cup of tea (ask last seasons Dons).

So assuming the Dons do the business, we'll be looking for Cumbrian victories later on. Either will do but as stated at the outset, if it's a Whitehaven win it has to be by less than the Dons have won by.