I like R L fans that have a sense of humour

Not much humour running through the Leeds camp this season Ste..Better to leave them alone,and let them dwelll on last season for various reasons.

Nah..The time is now.No point dwelling in the past.

yet, you want us to dwell on last season

Biff it is probably better for you to dwell,as your predictions so far this season really haven't met the grade.But saying that you can always smash the middle 8's up.

Don't really care about Mickey 8's, odds were always super slim we were going down and we likely won't be anywhere near now we have found some form again.

As long as we smash your lot that will be the cherry on the cake. Then you can all go find another unfortunate teams board and annoy them with your little man syndrome and sense of insecurity.

Do you get a trophy for finishing top of the middle 8s?

Nope, so just like Wigan this year and the last 2 we'll end the season trophyless

So after today's games the Championship looks like this

3 - Batley - 29 pts
4 - Bradford - 28 pts
5 - Featherstone - 28 pts
6 - Halifax - 27 pts

Final week

Featherstone vs Bradford
Swinton vs Batley
Halifax vs London

The winner of the Fev/Bradford gets in and you'd fancy Batley to get over Swinton. If they do slip up then Halifax can overtake them with a win as they have a much better points difference.

Hudds lost today and will finish bottom unless they can somehow win away to Warrington next week, even then because of points difference unlikely to get 4 home games. Equation simple for Leeds, win on Thursday and we have 4 home games regardless of what happens later in the weekend with the other fixtures.

9 - Salford - 14 pts
10 - HKR - 14 pts
11 - Leeds - 14 pts
12 - Hudds - 12 pts

Salford vs Hull
HKR vs Leeds
Warrington vs Huddersfield

I actually feel a bit bad about saying this but I want Featherstone to win next week because I think of the Championship teams in the Middle 8's if Bradford were one they would be the most up for beating us.

Send everyone who doesn't play Thursday to Featherstone.

Quick permutations regarding Leeds

9th - we'll finish 9th if we beat HKR and Salford lose to Hull

10th - we'll finish 10th if we beat HKR and Salford win against Hull

11th - we'll finish 11th if we lose to HKR and Hudds lose to Wire

12th - we'll finish 12th if we lose to HKR and Hudds beat Wire

What if Mitch Achurch doesn't play Thursday?

Maybe McGuire and Stevie Ward need a warm up game for fitness.

I think you can win the 'middle 8's'....good luck in your quest, it will be an amazing achievement if you manage to do it.