Ok, this is a bit long winded so apologies. However, we have new owners, some players and a quality coach. We also have -12 start and 2 relegation places to avoid. Lets look at how we might achive that as its easy to get too despondant when we're messing around in minus figuires. Ive had a look at the fixtures for 2017, and the relegation places for 2016, made some assumptions and guesses and came up with this;

Last year Workington were relegated on 15, Whitehaven were relegated on 17, Oldham survived on 20. So lets aim for 20 points after 30 games to give us a realistic chance of survival.

Lets assume we lose home and away to last years top 4 (HKR/London/Batley/Fev)
Lets assume we beat home and away our possible direct rivals for the drop (Oldham/Rochdale/Sheff/Swinton)
Lets assume we split the games 1 win 1 loss to the rest (Dews/Halifax/Toulouse)

Some of these teams and results will be interchangable, but you get the logic for assumming defeat to quality teams and the need to beat the teams also trying to avoid the drop.

Using those assumptions we get these possible results (actual results may vary

You'll beat HKR.
We lost tonight to your poorer rivals 30-4.
The end is nigh :').

Hmm, I'll be honest. I think we will beat Batley and Fev. And I also think Toulouse will be very tough.

Was going to say, i think you'll struggle against Toulouse h/a.
Don't fancy us away Easter Monday at their gaffe either.

Like I said, some will be interchangable, it was more about the overall logic rather than picking an accumulater.

After everything that's happened it would be a monumental effort to do the double over fev, batley, dewsbury and London, even Swinton look the real deal this season.

I think we have a chance of beating them at at not sure away as they both know how to play the slope

All I have to say, who thought Batley would make top 4 last year? If we have same work rate and don't give up. I think we can stay up.

We dont need to the the double over them, thats the point. We can lose every game to Batley/Fev and London and still stay up.

I think the vast majority of us think we will stay up. Be pretty funny if we beat KR first up though!

Don't think Swinton have improved massively if I am honest, brought in Matt Sarsfield and Jack Murphy who are good players but lost Littler, Matty Beharrell and Emmett who were all good for them.

Swinton will be tough. They won't feel secure in their position in the league at all, and they are tough as nails. They ran a lot of teams close in defeat last year.

I hate to put this in quite these terms cos it's the kind of thing that leads to us being accused of arrogance. It's still kinda true though. We're a bigger club when we don't exist than some teams still in Super League. We'd be a scalp for any Championship side if we were in League One. We'd be a scalp for a lot of Super League sides if we were in League One. Events haven't scrubbed that away yet. Much diminished, but that's still there. You only have to look at the cast of thousands who would try and convince you otherwise to know how true it is.

Whatever empathy there was is over. They're all gunning for us.