Ways in which this could be a good year for the Bulls (on-field)

1. Cup run (Wembley?)
2. Make the eight/finish as high up the table as possible
3. Take a scalp or two in the play-offs
4. Take a scalp or two in the regular season
5. Have a run near the top of the league

Have I missed any? Even placing it bottom, it's still the 5th best thing we could do this year and so worth doing I reckon.

I think when the players look at the table and see we are 3rd, it will give them a massive confidence boost.

Well as many were tipping us to finish bottom before the season started (and I'll admit that I didn't see this season as anything other than us being also rans) I'd be happy for us to continue the season the way we've started it.

A cup run will be superb for us. Financially and profile wise. Tell everyone we're back on the big stage. A final could earn £1million for the kitty!

Do we receive all our play off money or are we sharing it with the other 7 play off teams if we make it?

I suggest we donate the lot to Ken Davy as a mark of our gratitude.

Or has that been confiscated too?

Just like last year, the points deduction was surely to ensure we could not make the playoffs (and it must have been scaring the life out of Rot Hall when, despite that, we so nearly did), maybe the Sky money confiscation this year has the same purpose? And us making the playoffs is just not in the script?

If so, all the more reason to so desperately hope that we do indeed make the playoffs; and maybe, just maybe, do a bit more than just that. And give the scriptwriters a good poke in the eye for their trouble.

What is for sure, is that the team spirit and drive and determination we have seen on the park this year is like nothing I can remember, not for a long time. Its like a continuation, and a step-up, from what we saw last year in the face of extreme adversity. This team is far far more than just the sum of its parts. You have to look back to the start of SL to find a parallel, I suggest? And, the icing on the cake is that we are playing a more exciting and interesting game than I can remember.

Whatever happens from now, on the park its been a much better year so far than I think any of us dared hope for?

Couldnt have put that better myself.

Did anyone suggest otherwise?

I am just being realistic here. Whilst we can be quite rightly proud of our side at the moment, it must be said that with our thinner squad then it may well get tough at the end of the season. Therefore, any dropped points by our rivals will help us out a great deal.

Interesting that the chairman of one of the clubs we will be battling with for the playoff spots has thrown in the towel?

Personally I would like to see play-off football this season, but as our friends at Valley Parade have shown a good cup run is both good for the bank and good for getting more feet through the turnstiles - in fact I think some of the extra feet might formally have come up to Odsal for the odd game?

I must be a "glass half empty" person, still wanted the Hull clubs to lose yesterday. Even though we've exceeded expectations we're still going to lose a few games and, with the teams bunched together, any defeat could see us slip a few places down the table. If we can establish daylight between ourselves and the Hull clubs those occassional losses will be less likely to create the pressure that could cause a slump.