1 warrington
2 wigan
3 st helens
4 huddersfield
5 leeds
6 catalan
7 hull fc
8 salford
9 hull kr
10 bradford
11 widnes
12 wakefield
13 castleford
14 london

gf warrington
cc st helens

slippery juniors predictions

1 leeds
2 st helens
3 wigan
4 warrington
5 huddersfield
6 hull fc
7 catalan
8 salford
9 hull kr
10 bradford
11 wakefield
12 widnes
13 castleford
14 london

gf leeds
cc warrington

1- Saints
2 - Hudds
3 - Wigan
4 - Wire
5 - Leeds
6 - Catalan
7 - Salford
8 - Hull KR
9 - Hull
10 - Wakey
11 - Widnes
12 - Cas
13 - Bradford
14 - London

Hock will probably run well. He was a one man wrecking machine for Widnes at times last year and improved them. Kevin Brown used him well...so can see Chase and Smith working with the same mentality.

As for Morley, the 'good spells' may be 15 mins a game, cant see how he will move them forward much. Hope he doesn't take valuable minutes away from darrell griffin.......

Garry Schofield's (League Express):

1. Wigan
2. Leeds
3. Saints
4. Wire
5. Hudds
6. Salford
7. Hull FC
8 Catalans
9 HKR
10 Widnes
11 Cas
12 Wakey
13 Bradford
14 London

Here goes but I think this season is the most open (hardest to predict) for some time:

1. Giants
2. Saints
3. Wigan
4. Rhinos
5. Wolves
6. Dragons
7. Hull
8. Salford
9. Hull KR
10. Widnes
11. Bulls
12. Cas
13. Wakefield
14. London

Grand final: Giants
Cup Winners: Rhinos
The latter is more in hope than expectation

Just to add fuel to the debate re: Warrington. I have it on good authority that the upper echelons of the club themselves don't expect to be challenging for silverware for at least 2 seasons. That doesn't mean they won't, of course, as evidenced by Wigan in 2010 winning the GF a couple years ahead of the perceived wisdom from inside the club. I think the difference between the two situations could be that Warrington are in a genuine rebuilding phase, whereas Wigan were not. Interesting that many posters still see them as big contenders given their record without Morley and, in particular, Briers which has been generally poor and given the fact that they haven't actually replaced them with anything approaching 'like for like'. I suppose it comes down to whether the players they already have can step up this year without them; something they were unable to do last season. Either way, it will certainly be interesting to see how it pans out.

Oh, and on the Wigan front, I think many seem to be overestimating the losses and underestimating the replacements which is how we like it! We have 2 or 3 'bolters' this season (Think Charnley from last year or even Tomkins from a few years ago) and although Tomkins is a big loss in himself, Bowen is absolute quality who has done it year in, year out in the NRL. Providing he's up for the challenge I think he'll be a revelation against the much more open defences in SL. We have one of the youngest squads I've seen in a long time though so it all rests on whether the 'experienced heads' can do the necessary. In short, I think the likes of O'Loughlin need to stay fit for the greater part of the season and definitely be around at the business end. Not unlike yourselves and JP, albeit for different reasons.

1 - St Helens
2 - Huddersfield
3 - Wigan
4 - Warrington
5 - Leeds
6 - Catalans
7 - Hull
8 - Salford
9 - Hull KR
10 - Widnes
11 - Bradford
12 - Castleford
13 - Wakefield
14 - London

GF - St Helens
CC - Wigan

1-warringhton
2-wigan
3-saints
4-huddersfield
5-leeds
6-salford
7-catalans
8-hull fc
9-Hull kr
10-widnes
11-castleford
12-bradford
13-wakefield
14-london

GF warringhton
CC saints

1. Wigan
2. St Helens
3. Warrington
4. Leeds
5. Huddersfield
6. Hull
7. Catalans
8. Salford
9. Castleford
10. Hull KR
11. Widnes
12. Bradford
13. Wakefield
14. London

CC- Leeds
GF- St Helens

1. Wigan
2. Huddersfield
3. St Helens
4. Warrington
5. Leeds
6. Catalans
7. Hull FC
8. Salford
9. Widnes
10. Hull KR
11. Castleford
12. Bradford
13. Wakefield
14. London

CC - St Helens
GF - Wigan

Ian Millward's (Sporting Life):

1. Wire
2. Saints
3. Leeds
4. Hudds
5. Pies
6. Catalans
7. HKR
8. Salford
9. Hull FC
10. Bulls
11. Widnes
12. Cas
13. Wakey
14. Broncs

Analysing the predictions to date gives the following composite results:

1. Saints
2. Wigan
3. Wolves
4. Giants
5. Rhinos
6. Dragons
7. Hull
8. Salford
9. Hull KR
10. Cas
11. Widnes
12.Wakefield
13. Bulls
14. London
No single prediction matches the above exactly.