We finished 10th technically for finishing 2nd in qualifiers so we'd have HKR wouldn't we.

No because HKR finished 3rd / 11th.

So aren't the fixtures 10th vs 11th and 9th vs 12th?

Nope it’s 1v3, 2v4, 6v8, 5v7, 10v12, 9v11

Leeds v London should be our easiest magic fixture ever

You’ll need to improve your performance somewhat.

It's those sorts of comments, unsurprisingly very similar to those made recently by certain Saints fans, that would make me laugh my c0ck off if Leeds lost.

To be fair he did say should and he didn`t say we would win it. He is referring to what are likely to be the favourites to get relegated so by rights it would be our easiest game compared to other teams we have played in the past.
We might still lose as these things happen.
Let`s face it didn`t we beat Castleford in the GF when they smashed the League last year

Until we know the make up of both teams it's pointless to make such statements. London beat Toronto, Toronto beat Leeds, ergo London are a better team than Leeds on paper.

If we play like we did this year we would probably struggle.
But with the clear out of the dross and some better signings I think we will be much better equipped to beat the likes of London (hopefully).
Put it this way I have more confidence in Furner as the coach than Sinfield sorry I mean Lowes!

I think we are also forgetting that we were not all that far off for the first part of the year, all our players haven't suddenly become rubbish, don't forget Warrington (and Catalans) were in the middle 8s last year and with a change of coach and a few layers they are in the GF.

For the last half of the year we have been dire no doubt but there's no reason why we can't see an upturn in performances which should see us in the top half of the table.

Sorry Christopher, but you are not correct there. We may well have been in a better league position, but we were still far off in the first half of the year. Even Hetherington had the grace to admit in that interview last week, that AT NO POINT in the season did we look close to the top teams. A couple of results doesn't change that. Hetherington quite rightly was talking about performance.

What this season highlighted, although it should have been seen much earlier, is that we do have some rubbish players. You are correct it hasn't happened overnight, they simply were not good enough before, but due to how good certain others were, this lack of ability was covered up.