If all teams were at full strength I would say we are not good enough to go all the way, But Saints are hitting a wall at the moment, Leeds are looking a bit weary although they like Rovers will have the semi & final weekends off. The Giants for me are the team who will have the best chance of winning from outside the top two they have shown they can mix it with everybody & had the game plan to Handle Rovers twice, Its just a question if they can hold there form together in the cup & league & stay free from Injuries. Rovers can beat anyone on the day but like all the others they must have luck with injuries.if the others can not hold their form then anything is possible. At least there are new names in the mix.For me I would like to see a Warrington v Huddersfield cup final, & Rovers/Giants/Wigan grand final, but I suspect Leeds or Saints will have something to say about it. It makes a change from past seasons though.

Leeds. Its a shorter drive home!

Ever the optimist!

im hoping for saints.ive just got a feeling we can beat them again.but i think leeds might end up top.ive made the mistake too of booking hol for oct 10th doh!

bri.

I'm enjoying all the speculation/gossip about who plays who and who is allowed to choose who in Week 3; the bare facts are that I've got an honours degree in applied maths but fully understanding Club Rovers and the Play-off system is making my brain hurt with all the ambiguous wording prone to misinterpretation. And I thought that rugby was meant to be a simple game!

As mentioned in earlier posts we'll have to beat St Helens (twice?) and/or Leeds on their own mud to get to Old Trafford. In reality finishing 4th is great and means that if it goes to form then we should make it through to Week 3. Even if we lose then, what a game that would be! And playing in (perhaps) 3 play-off games would give us a great platform for next season (with a couple of cracking new signings please).

Winning every game to the end of the season makes it less likely that we'll be seen as an easy pick in Week 3 so there's still lots to play for this season.

C'mon you Reds!

OOOHHH!!! Get her!

Have I missed something, never mind top 4, when did we even qualify the playoffs, unless I'm mistaken so far only the top 3 have qualified

Come on, so your not even a little bit convinced that we will make the top 4? 4 games left 5 points clear, in good form, come on!!!!

I think Wigan will win there last 4, Don't think we'll beat Saints or Warrington should beat Salford, so the Wakey game is massive, and by no means a shoe in, so yes I do think everyone is being a big premature, I really hope I'm wrong, but all this crowing could leave us with massive amounts of egg on our faces.

With Wire and F.C at home and Cas and Hudds away it will take a massive effort to win all 4, especially with not having the rest this weekend.

Saints are not exactly sitting pretty, although being top would suggest that, but if you look at their remaining games, Hudds in the cup, then Rovers, Leeds, Hudds again and finally Les Cats, with a run in like that they could still slip down the league, I think we need to get 2 more regular rounds out of the way before people start counting their chickens.

I agree it’s not done and dusted by any stretch of the imagination but I do think that a 5 point cushion with 4 games to go is to much for the chasing pack to make up on 4th spot

Confidence is a massive thing, as has been proven with Rovers v Saints in the cup last year and a similar thing happened again this year, if Wigan beat Wire their confidence will be sky high going into th run in, reacon they'll beat wire twice FC and Cas should follow and if Hudds can't go up or drop, they will rest players their last game, so yes I think they may well win their last 4.

Wigan have still to play Wire and Cas. Wire also play Wakefield and Quins - the latter also play Cas (who incidentally go to Leeds next). Wakefield's run in isn't too bad and they do play us. Catalans are probably too far back and they'd need to beat Wakefield to get passed us. All this is assuming we can't beat a post-semi final Wire at home [ior[/i a Salford team with only pride to play for. Edit: Saints after the CC semi, Wire after the final!
It is possible we won't make the play-offs, but just barely.

Top 4, you may have a point. A slightly pessimistic point, but valid nontheless.

I can see fans of a certain club swarming all over these pages should it go pear shaped, you know they play silly games, all this "you will put a cricket score against us" is just their way of setting us up for a fall, lets not do it for them, once its cast in stone I will be the first to crow about it.

They would love it if we didnt make it, but that only comes to show how pathetic their season has been,

In all honesty it is extremely unlikely that Rovers can get to the Grand Final. It's probably a bad thing to create an expectation that we can.

It is in fact going to be difficult to win even 1 play off game.

As things stand we'll be away to St Helens and then home to Wigan. We'll play Wigan after the toughest game possible (away to team 1), Wigan will be coming off the easiest game possible (home to team eight).

Now I'm not saying we can't beat Wigan but beating them in a knock out play off game is a huge task even at home. Of course if Rovers do manage it then they will then be 'rewarded' with another away trip to (probably) St Helens.

Finishing 4th would be a very good effort but the play off system gives little reward for it.

Similar to what i said , To be honest the playoffs do look more grueling this year.

In past years if you had finished 4th, you would of had to play

5th at home
then winners of 3 v 6th
then losers of the 1 v 2

Although they get a second bite its does seem harder for teams 3 and 4 and possibly easier for teams 5 to 8

Its definately easier for teams 7 and 8 - that is why its slightly harder for 1-6.

Also that is 3 wins in a row to reach the GF. If we win 2 in a row (with a 2nd chance, if we lose our first), we'd be at OT - which is easy to say, much harder to do.

The advantage of being top 2 has been most eroded. You only had to win once to get to the GF, from there before - now it is twice. Apart from H advantage it isn't better than 3/4th.

I think we have a very good chance of beating both, especialy if we are starting to peak at the right time.

didn`t lots of people say something like this in th 2005 challenge cup for fc`s run to it and gave them no chance .. its rugby league and anything can happen guys

I wouldnt have though the fixture combinations for us in 2005 would have been as predictable

=red[size=200Just ignore Hutchie , he is the person responsible for the breakdown between the club and their fans because he got "media hungry"[/size

If you can sense an Old Trafford trip for The Robins this year clap your hands.

Remember guys...making the play offs means absolutely nish unless you win them.

Remember guys, at least if your in them you have a chance to win them