The bottom is looking interesting and there could be another 'surprise' name in the bottom 4 at the end of the season. Some of the expected bottom teams have looked ok, Salford for one and Leigh's home form Gould give them a chance of avoiding the Middle 8's. Yes they've been comfortably beaten away but they were both against the current top two who are well in form so maybe not all lost in regards to getting wins away from Leigh.

Hudds have taken a couple of beatings in a row now and next 3 weeks they have Wigan and Cas AWAY with us at their place inbetween. Can't see them doing anything in those away games so that match vs us is vital for them otherwise they'll be well behind.

My thoughts as well, play like we did last night, we should be too good for them two, not saying we will thrash them, but more of the same please, that will put us in good stead for a tough test af Wigan

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I've even been known to leave my laptop or PC on when leaving the house, leaving me logged in to certain message boards, but don't tell the wife.

Neither warrington or saints have good fixtures coming up either. They won't know (we do) but when you're near the bottom suddenly games take on a different complexion because the team you're playing will probably be above you in the league. Every game starts to feel like wigan (A) against the odds.

Yeah definitely, Warrington away to Leigh next week now looks very difficult for them in the circumstances compared to what you'd think that fixture would be like 4/5 weeks ago, if they and Saints (away to Catalans) both lose next week then the following weeks game of Saints vs Warrington is a massive contest.

Your inability to acknowledge the semantically driven nature of the posts alluded to is duly noted.

It's duly noted is it? Glad to hear, no really! Guffaw!!

Your inability to accept when you're mistaken or, in this case, caught blatently lying, has been noted by most users of this board for over a decade.

You like the word liar and its derivations don't you?

Not particularly, but if that cap fits...

McDermott's comments after the game kind of points to what I was saying about the attack a few weeks ago, in that we'll be trying to achieve a certain style and not the constant calls for structure on here, but isn't easy to execute.

"I've been the biggest critic of the offence this year and tonight it started to click. We don't go by the repetitive attack that you see in some teams which gets success but bores you to tears to watch.

"Our philosophy to attack is a bit more free, for want of a better phrase. Sometimes it goes wrong but you've got to get used to it and have some correction, but tonight it was a example of how it works, how it's a decent system."

Very enjoyable performance last night. All credit to coaching staff and players. Moon, Parcell and Cuthbo were excellent. With the injured player to return, I'd hope for top six at a minimum.

Having seen the albeit short highlights i think we scored some quality trys but how Child allowed their 2nd is more ridiculous than Suttys v Salford.
Like i said earlier though fair play to all involved on/off the pitch for bouncing back & doing it convincingely.
Wrt to Mc.D talking about our attacking style that's all well & good but against better defences i think we need at least s couple of "structured set moves" because they will easily contain Parcell & Cuthbo.
Hopefully we kick on but still a long way to go.
Overall wrt SL Cas & Wigan still look eay above everyone else imo.
Id also expect Wire to dish out a few hidings so i certainly wont write off their top 4 challange just yet.

Im not sure I buy that, Cas have some structure when attacking the opponents line as did we under Smith and McClenan, we need the right balance.

Maybe 'structure' is the wrong word, but we definitely need better shape so the creative players have options to play off.

We looked deep in attack and gave our dangerous backs space to work with, something we have not done well in some time. Unfortunately I wasn't at the game, how did we look in defence? And most importantly have we improved at the last tackle?