I would like to see the Tigers beat Quins and not leave it to the last match of the regular season to secure a place in the play-offs.

If we lose at quins and Wire beat Hull KR we CAN NOT get in the play-offs, as 1 of them two teams will win on the last day with each playing one another so in my eyes we have to beat quins otherwise we cant get in the play-offs. Gotta hope Hull KR beat Wire for us.

Are Catalans not in this equation then? And we can get in the play-offs if we lose next weekend.

Do you really think Wire will beat HKR with their injury problems? All depends on the way the CC Final goes.

Let's look at the threats eh? As things stand we're holding on to 8th. Catalans are on equal points (but will keep a better diff barring a miracle). They close with Wakey and Saints and (worse case) you have to say they have an outside chance at both of those. Let's say they win both and finish on 28pts. That's as many as we can get, so they finish above us on diff. Everyone else above is out of reach so if Catalans win both the best we could therefore do is 8th.

Threats to us are therefore Wire and Quins with Bradford or Hull both mathematically possible too. However, Hull play Bradford and Wire play Quins in the last round - so they can't ALL win. That means we have just two threats - either Wire or Quins (but not both), plus either Bradford or Hull (but not both). Of those, it's the Wire/Quins threat we should worry about. If - as we expect - Cas beat Celtic, it will end the season for Bulls & FC because there's nothing either can now do to get to 26pts.

At the moment both Wire and Quins are on 22, so both need to win both of their remaining games to stand a chance. For Wire that means beating KR and Quins. For Quins that means beating Cas and Wire. To be honest I can't see either side winning both rounds, so assuming we get the two from Celtic you'd have to back us for 8th spot.

Of course the best way to put all this to bed is to beat Quins but even if we don't you've still got to be a loony not to back us, purely because we have a relatively easy final round while all the teams around us have to knock each other senseless to stand a chance.