Nah I disagree mate.

Fev, Toulouse and York have some big signings and have the strongest squad on paper.

Then who else is THAT much better than us?

London - aren't the same team they were a couple of seasons a go IMHO that team that earned promotion and nearly avoided a miracle relegation From SL has completely changed. That said I still expect Sammut to tear us a new one like he does everytime we play him

Halifax - Robinson/Harris are decent signings. But I don't look at their squad and think "wow they're much stronger than us" whoever performs best on the day will come out on top.

Widnes - very strong 17, but after that they've literally got kids.

Last season I thought we'd get mid table at best, but was pleasantly surprised by the performances. We've made some smart recruits (though still missing one more big prop) and have a good good balanced squad. If injuries and covid bite we're struggling but that goes for all the teams who have lighter squads than pervious seasons. I think we have slightly more depth than a lot of others. Widnes look very thing on troops IMHO

Odds for the championship:

Toulouse 6/4
Featherstone 2/1
London Broncos 6/1
York 8/1
Widnes 10/1
Bradford 12/1
Halifax 20/1

That's broadly where I'd put us in the pecking order as well. Not sure of York - I expected them to get second season syndrome last year once everyone had figured them out. No disrespect to them but they were artificially high due to catching people by surprise and I'd question if that would be repeated. That said, everything is up for grabs after such a huge lay-off. Anything could happen.

I would have had York, Widnes and ourselves all on 10/1. But broadly everything else as expected

London at 6/1 surprises me. I really think they could struggle this season.

*prepared for this to be brought up as London win the MPG.

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