SAFE!

Get to work Sinfield and GH get busy lots of work to do

Indeed. Starting with a quality coach

I honestly think Agar will get it

The cheap and easy option.

He's done his bit now, thanks very much, but time for a proven quality coach to come in and change things up it's a huge task.That's my view but i tend to agree i feel we will go with him.

So now we're safe can we reopen the Top 5 discussion

I’m not sure. I think Agar is quite risk averse at this stage and may prefer a back room position still.

He will be involved but if the right candidate is out there we might bring them in.

I’m not saying another coach than Agar couldn’t have kept us up this year, but it wasn’t a shoe-in either. I am hugely appreciative of Agar’s work this year.

Yes joking apart we are, or should be, miles behind top 5 with current playing squad but truth is we are only a good coach away from top 5. We need more quality to get to Saints level, they are miles ahead and if it wasn't for the comedy factor of watching them choke they would canter to the SL title and deserve to.

Thing is the quality of SL is pretty dire at the moment we aren’t really far off top 5

Look at hulls points difference, were nearly 70 points above them

Saints are head and shoulders above everyone except when it comes to finals

Wigan will win it this year IMO

Sport and RL is unpredictable. Saints are the best side but they’re not forced to win every big game.

Even our Goldens only won the treble once (hell of an achievement). They lost some big games too.

You just put the best side together that you can, control what you can, and then leave the rest to Lady Luck.

I don’t think we are far off top 5 at all. People will have to be patient: the wheels have been coming off since 2015 or before. We are not going to fix this in one or probably two years now. What we can’t afford is to make even more obviously poor decisions around recruitment though. And we need to use this precious planning time, now we’re safe, to good effect and not fall in love with where we’re at.

I've thought Wigan would make the GF for a while now. After last week, if make them favourites. Real momentum behind them, considering they were down with us a few weeks back

I thought they were the worse Wigan side I’ve seen in a very long time when they played us at HQ a while back.

They have improved but i agree not the Wigan of the Wane era.

I see why people are making them favourites though. Still plenty of big game nous in the squad led by lockers. Feels a bit like us getting Cas in 2017.