6 or 7 wins seems an extremely high amount. How many do you see London and KRnt winning?

That depends entirely on how many games those teams are going to win from here on in
Wakefield have got a very tough run in and are only 4 points in front of the bottom 2 but also have a superior points difference ATM (but that could change with a couple of bad defeats)
So we might not need as many as 6 or 7 wins (IMO I don't believe that we will win that many)

In reality we need to win
3 more games than Wakey
2 more wins than Giants and London
1 More win than Hull KR

For me we need to beat KR LONDON and the Giants which should be enough given our pts diff.

Wakey's fixtures:
Huddersfield (h)
Catalans (a)
Castleford (h)
Wigan (a)
St Helens (a)
Hull (h)
Hull KR (a)
Wigan (h)
Warrington (a)
London (h)

Giants fixtures:
Wakefield (a)
Salford (a)
Catalans (h)
Hull KR (a)
Leeds (h)
Salford (a)
Castleford (h)
Hull (a)
St Helens (a)
Catalans (h)

London's fixtures
Castleford (a)
Warrington (h)
Hull (a)
St Helens (h)
Salford (h)
Castleford (a)
Catalans (a)
Leeds (h)
Hull KR (a)
Wakefield (a)

Rhinos fixtures
Catalans (h)
Castleford (a)
Hull KR (h)
Hull (h)
Huddersfield (a)
Catalans (h)
St Helens (h)
London (a)
Salford (h)
Warrington (h

Hull KR's fixtures
Hull FC(h)
Wigan (a)
Leeds (a)
Huddersfield (h)
Castleford (h)
Wigan (a)
Wakefield (h)
Catalans (a)
London (h)
Salford (a)

I still think London will finish bottom especially looking at their run over the next 6 weeks, that said, if they beat us I might change my verdict and we will be well and truly in the mix. It would be entertaining if we got to the final 2 weeks and there were 4 sides in the relegation mix.

When did we last have a good relegation battle in SL , 2006?

I think it will go down the the wire. London’s last 3 fixtures are Leeds, Hull kr and Wakefield. One of the 4 will be relegated so those 3 fixtures will be crucial.

Should really be taking 4 points off Catalans at home twice and HKR and Salford at home should also be big targets for points that's 8 and should hopefully be enough.

We have no excuses really if we finish bottom looking at the run in.

Injuries will have a part to play.

I would say we have the next 6 games to get points in the bank. If we leave it too late it could get extremely dodgy. It will also make it harder for us to plan for 2020.

If we can get Ward back fully fit it’s going to help.

In answer to both the above, the fixture list us favourable and i think 6-7 wins is achievable. I don’t nt think Huddersfield London or Hull Kr will win more than 3-4. But if London win 4 we have to win 5 and one more than hull kr to be sure, it also worries me that other sides shall we say wont try quite so hard to beat The others, so we gave to make sure we are well out of it and have some breathing room with 2-3 games to go. So by my logic 6 wins will do it.

I fear you may be right. Fingers crossed we can stay up, if so next year will still be very tough I reckon.

Given we have exited Watkins, moving others is obviously going to be very difficult.

At present we have a lot of players coming off contract end of 2020. Ablett, Tom briscoe, cuthbo, Dwyer, Myler, Parcell, peteru singleton and Ward.

Sinfield said it may take years and it may be 2021 to see much light.

Obviously Parcell will be gone by the end of the week but replace his name with Lunt. I still believe that Ablett, JJB, Cuthbertson, Golding, Ferres will be gone at the end of the season, with the possibility of Singleton added to that. Ward and Peteru need a huge end of 2019 and 2020 to put themselves forward for new contracts after both have had their injury worries.

I like your optimism but you think we’re going to turn around into a 60% win ratio...?