Quote: paulwalker71 "This is what I was alluding to on another thread when you get people taking the attitude that we can afford to write off games against the top teams, so long as we focus on beating the so-called 'lesser teams'.
I don't think that there are going to be any easy games, with the possible exception of Widnes - and even they will provide the odd shock. Remember where Crusaders won their first game in SL? Exactly....
Salford appear to have the makings of a good side. They ended up getting blown away by St Helens, but they were very competitive for the best part of an hour. They are not going to be any sort of guaranteed two points at all. London have too many good players to not come good at some point, Wakefield look well organised, Castleford will certainly not let teams walk all over them, and so on....'"
Most of such comments are in reaction to the usual lemmings jumping off a cliff because we lose to Cats (and now we know they are as good as some suspected) and Wigan, rather than fundamental beliefs as to what people want the team to do. I usually express it this way, that we have to beat
the teams around us, I dont call any team weak as on their day anybody can beat anybody. And looking at Wakefields stats so far this season I am expecting a very tough game for us. But beating Cas away shows that we can do it. If Jeffries steps up to the mark, if the forwards win a bit of possesion if our centres do a bit of tackling, if we keep it simple and error free. not much!!! and saying that the team should aim to win half the games isnt dissing any team either, but the probability is that can only be done by mostly winning against bottom half teams and nicking points wherever possible against top half teams.
