Quote Joshheff90="Joshheff90"Last year Huddersfield finished 6th by winning 13 games, drawing 1 and losing 16. That’s about 43% of games won.
This year we’ve lost against last year’s champions, last year’s league leaders and the favourites to win this year all away from home. We beat Salford. Then lost to Wakefield with a shocking performance, however they have finished 5th the last two seasons and I expect them to be above us this year.'"
It's probably fair to say we'll need to win around half of our games in order to finish around mid table, and it's also fair to say our current form doesn't quite support that. Whether or not Leeds improve more quickly than everyone else, we will see over the next couple of months.
Referring to Warrington, Saints and Wigan - well yes it's true to say they were last year's thises and thats, but that was last year. I've never known a season where all teams finish in exactly the same positions in consecutive seasons. Warrington and Saints do look good - but Cas are again leading the way early doors, and the one time we've faced them we also lost.
My point is, where are the "easy" games? We are going to need the occasional result against "last seasons...." in order to finish mid-table, because it's highly unlikely we'll beat London, Salford, Huddersfield, Catalans, HKR/Hull in both home and away fixtures. Saints game aside, we are still not looking really competitive against the better sides yet.
I'm certainly not panicking and personally feel we should end up away from the bottom places this year, but equally we shouldn't take anything for granted because the wheels and the sides of the wagon were off by the end of last season, and clearly there's still much to do.