On OUR LEAGUE according to the RFL Official site.

Tough game but we did win there on the 1st day of the season .

Both sides imo are better now than the 1st game.
It will be close but.......
COYD

We're in with a chance. Neither Newcastle not Oldham are unbeatable

Anyone can beat anyone now, we're capable of winning convincingly and being battered

The last 2 games against Oldham being a case in point. I go into the playoffs expecting nothing but hoping for everything. "If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those 2 imposters just the same"

I expect us to go to Newcastle and Oldham and beat both of those.
I expect Hunslet or Worky to emulate us and for us to be at home in the final and lose by 2 points and I win the halftime draw.
Nailed on ...

I expect nothing.

However. Hunslet or Workington won't beat us at home.

Edit ... We will be at home to Hunslet and not only will I win the draw, I will win a signed pair of Gary Thornton's skintight chinos.
What a day it will be ...apart from the defeat ... well not so much a defeat as a physical beating a la Hunslet style.

And

“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too

We need to be Ruddyhard in these upcoming games

Love it Will. Stick it on the changing room door

I understand the play off system with regards who plays who, and know that the highest team gets home advantage...but is that in all instances?

For example if we were to beat Newcastle then Oldham, does that mean we'd be at home in the final? Or would that revert back to Oldham (for example) if they were to get there.

Likewise; if we beat Newcastle next week, then lose to Oldham. Would the semi against Newcastle be at our ground (as we beat them in the preliminary) or their ground again (as they finished higher)?

As far as I understand it highest placed team always has home advantage

Just seems weird that if we beat Oldham, we'd be rewarded with a trip to Oldham

Yeah. I thought the same. Final should be a neutral venue

We need Hunslet or Workington to beat Oldham.

Oldham ground is not fit for purpose.

On the chart is has it written as "winner of the first semi final" v "winner of the second semi"...don't know if that is the fixture order

Anyway this is all by the by if we don't win them

Can't be at home to Oldham or Newcastle under any circumstances is how I understand it.
And if we beat Oldham we are not necessarily rewarded with a trip to Oldham in the final, they could get knocked out.
It's just a bit of a bugger that we will probably have to beat either Oldham or Newcastle twice away to get promoted.
But that is our fault.

Yes tat was a hypothetically assuming Oldham won there next game

I knew that ...
Now about those stones ..
Sure you don't want them?

Positive

Kiss of death maybe .. but considering that we duffed a side at home that put 30 on Hunslet away and we duffed a side that was in the game against Newcastle until late on, then I would say that if we take the attitude that they shall not pass against Newcastle .. then we should be OK.

One Swallow has not made our summer so far this season, good job Autumn is here. We all know they are capable of doing this, the problem is do the players think and believe it.