Duggs - can you expand on why you reckon finishing 5th is preferable to finishing 4th ?

5th 1st Week H Keighley/Workington/Whitehaven
2nd Week A Doncaster (or Fev/Halifax)
3rd Week A Leigh
GF Halifax or Featherstone

4th 1st Week A Leigh
2nd Week H Dewsbury
3rd Week A Leigh
GF Halifax or Featherstone

At Least 4th gives us two chances to beat Leigh and a bye if we win the first game so from the view of progressing obviously this is the best option however from a personal point of view I dont fancy going to Leigh twice its not the easiest place to get to by public transport.

Teams with a bye dont have a great record since 2010 Fev in 2011 are the only team not to play in every week of the playoffs so if we have to play every week i think i prefer the 5th place route a winnable home game a potential big local derby away to Doncaster then a trip to Leigh

OK - well it seems to be based on you not wanting to go to Leigh. Which is fair enough.

Apart from earning more 2015 funding, I'd say fourth is better.

Week 1 - Leigh a - Win
Week 2 - Much needed week off
Week 3 - Home to whoever beats Leigh in Week 2
Week 4 - Final

In the unlikely event of Leigh actually winning in Week 1,

we're certainly no worse off from a playing point of view than we would've been in fifth place. We'll be at home (which is a debatable advantage - but we have to play a home game somewhere in the mix) and we'll have an opponent from places 5-8, instead of 1-4.

We didn't have a huge crowd at Doncaster a few weeks ago.

I know we might have gone above them if they hadn't but - great stuff Donny beating Fax today we can still get to the final!