We shouldn’t get too carried away, beyond enjoying it for what it was. We put 50+ past Cas and Wakefield in 2016, after all. And last night, while our goal line defence was really impressive and we scored some lovely tries, there were spells when Hudds were making lots of easy metres and we struggled with our exit sets. 4 of our first 6 games have come against the current bottom 3, so there are certainly tougher challenges ahead.

However, while I’d say we looked like a SL team vs Leeds and won at home vs Catalans, last night we did both together for the first time since promotion. I was pretty despondent last week and revised my personal forecast down. Now, again, I think that top 8 is possible (if still a very big ask), and 9th/10th look gettable.

You’d likely need two or three teams to come adrift at the bottom, with most of the rest beating them home and away to push it up to 12, so in one way a less tight league. It’s only a 23 game initial season, after all. 8th has been 20 or 21 points the last three years, so it’s a fairly consistent target.

So your not buying your grand final tickets with zook emas hose just yet then

Not yet, no. Still been in a good mood today though!

As an aside, I think last night’s score was a reverse of that from our last visit to Huddersfield.