this, without the sneaking a win on friday. Theres a harder game for Cas at Catalan than for us against Hudds too

I don't care about the playoffs. Second in the playoffs is as good as first week out in the playoffs.
I did not give us a sniff of the GF win.

I just want top as the silverwear will be a platform to build on and it gives us the added incentive of the WCC next year, guaranteed. That's money, exposure, interest. That is something we don't want to miss out on.

If we come second. That means we have to hope to hell Cas make the GF, or we are out of that next year.

Sorry if I'm being a bit dim, but I have not seen anything which sets out how the third team's criteria is decided?
All I've seen is :



I took this to mean the losing team in the last qualifying semi final? Perhaps not, but we shouldn't be counting our chickens even if we win the hub cap.

Theres 2 losing teams though. Does it go on who finished higher in the table out of the 2 semi losers?

It's been confirmed on the RFL twitter feed it's the highest placed team in the league table who doesn't make the GF.

This does surprise me - Sky/RFL have not rated the League Leader's Shield (aka Hub Cap) as much of an achievement / trophy.

Any chance of Saints progressing beyond week 1 relies on us losing this week and Catalans doing us a favour. Would give us a home semi against Huddersfield.....which we'd probably lose anyway. In reality I see us losing and Cas winning which would give us a home schlacking off Wigan in week one.

Actually, If Catalans, Huddersfield and Wigan/Wire win, Cas would finish 4th.