Well Chris Chester has done what many in the East stand have been asking for! it will be good to see how the team lines up - it also should send the message that no one is above being dropped!

Chester can't win can he?

Im glad he's got the bottle to drop him shows nobody safe which can only be a good thing

Hall and Welham would drop out of that squad for me, give Robinson and Hallet a go.

With results going our way tonight we can get back on track with a win tomorrow.

Although Eddie appears to have wrote us & Wakey off as he thinks its down to Widnes & Salford for 8th.

I picked up on that too, no mention of HKR even though we're in the best position to make a run on the 8, absolutely bizzare! We win today sand beat Widnes next week we'd be in 8th. Think he was just trying to hype up their last game of the season as some kind of playoffs shoot out.

Wakey had a brilliant win at Wire today. Our last game is at Belle Vue and is more likely to be season defining than the much hyped Salford Widnes game.

A lot of things could happen before the end of the season wouldn't be surprised if Catalans miss out on the eight and we have them at home also

I reckon you guys will make it, just, at the expense of Widnes. Think Salford could be the boys to ruin the party so to speak. that said, not sure what the real point of limping into the 8 actually is. Am genuinely pleased FC are not going to make it!

bonus of getting into the eight is coming into next years challenge cup a round later if I am reading the new structure correctly

Very good point, I forgot about that!I retract my pleasure at Hull's exclusion!

Commendable bit of back tracking. It's the eight from next season though, not this one.

Not for where you enter the CC next season it isn't.

Which as I meant to put in that post, further devalue the Challenge Cup for me.

What next?

The top four clubs get a bye to the semi finals?

Are you sure its this seasons top eight? I've just read it again and it sounds to me it starts from 2015.

Pretty sure it is, as only recently announced and I thought it was quite late in the day

It says the bottom four SL clubs come in at round five, presumably due to having seven extra games in the middle eight. Which is what made me think it is from next years league positions??? Otherwise why would the two relegated teams get a bye to round five along with the 11th and 12th place teams? And what round would 9 and 10 from this year enter the CC if the top 8 come in at round 6?

Possibly so then, I am confused.

It has to be based on this years positions as next years cc will be over before we know who gets the exemption

I took it to read that 2015 positions will determine which round you enter the cup in 2016 etc. I'm probably wrong though. I usually am.

Pretty certain its next years cup, think it was on sky they said the clubs prob new a while ago this was the case.

Going by our recent track record in the CC, I can't see it affecting us a great deal either way!

I now have no idea.

This is nothing new, but as a serious point, how is the casual observer of the game supposed to follow this?

Just watched super league show. It is this seasons finishing positions for next seasons cup.

Well, that's cleared up, but it's really badly done that people such as ourselves can't instantly follow it makes the the casual observer have no chance.