Its the next five fixtures that will determine the season:

Saints A - winnable but Saints are capable of a performance like they put in against Warrington
Huddersfield A - a must win
Castleford H - should be again a winnable match
Wigan - Magic weekend - who knows
Warrington A - Sandow should be back by then so that will be tough

Win 4 out them and the season looks a lot better - the first 3 games are definitely winnable the last two very tough. Lose 4 and the middle eights is staring them in the face. A interesting few weeks

CC Draw is on Thursday morning on Radio 4.

What a strange option.

Akin to Poundland mixing it with John Lewis/Waitrose customers.

Here's my prediction...

Leeds V WBSLR

Just trying to be positive

I agree with the last point - look what the Roosters did in the WCC

Aren't you one of those Waitrose customers?

I agree the gulf in standard has grown significantly in the past three years to a point where the gap is a chasm.

All those who say its just five drives and a kick are so wrong - the skill level is so high in that league that you watch SL and you cringe at the standard.

Watching a team like the Broncos is a delight - the play the game game fast with great skill and expression

What's he done / doing?

I think it is pretty common knowledge that his dedication to his profession falls well short of the examples set by the likes of Sinfield, Peacock, JJB, McGuire. As the saying goes you can take a lad out of Cas but you cannot take Cas out of a lad.

Follow his twitter - if you can be bothered

Fair point Andy - it would interesting to hear Nick Robinson doing the draw

No it's not common knowledge at all. Please do tell us all what it is that he's doing or not doing, you seem to know more than everyone else as no one's mentioned anything. It must be a recent thing as he seemed to do OK last season, you know... when he won MOS.

And what's wrong with people from Castleford, is he even from Castleford?

I follow him on Twitter and like many young sportsmen he talks a lot of crap, so what. He also shows a lot of enthusiasm & dedication to the club so i'm not sure what your point is there, is that what your basing your "lack of professionalism" thing on, someone's Twitter feed?

Do you just copy & paste that every time someone calls you out?

Yes I said they'd not make the 4 and that hasn't changed. I think they're allowed a transition season after the last 10 years, don't you? A transition that's not been helped by the well publicised off-field happenings, including the worst injury list i've ever seen at Leeds. I've no doubt whatsoever that Leeds will be top 4 for each of the next 10 years though, no doubt at all. So feel free to bookmark this post and put your money where your mouth is next season when i'll be happy to take it off you - again.

In the mean time, please do keep posting the same **** day after day. No one's bored of reading it.

Same goes for your troll mate, William. Has he mentioned the NRL, how SKY killed the game, Winter rugby, the salary cap or even austerity yet this week? I bet he's mentioned them all... multiple times

Have any reigning champions ever failed to make top 8 the following season. Some appear fairly relaxed by the prospect but I would view Leeds leaving the dwindling band of SL everpresents (even for just the 8 games) as a huge blow to the club's reputation.

Re the Challenge Cup draw - anybody away (not just Wigan or Warrington) would be an obstacle not overcome so far this season. Backed St Helens this week after my tipping Hull worked better than a Sinfield half-time team talk.