At least 6 Salford players who would have played last season in the 13, will not make the first 13 in 2014. For the first time in many years I am confident we will not be in the bottom 2. 6th place is my prediction.

Cas look poor? We've lost Chase who was good in attack but didn't have a great kicking game and got easily beaten in defence at times.

Other than that Walker, Mason and Thompson have gone. The former two missed a lot of games through injury and the latter is nothing more than average.

We have more depth and a much more experienced stronger squad.

You look fairly poor to me too - Your 3 signings from us (Channing/Dorn/Wheeldon) are hardly world beaters.

All opinions though! You'll still finish above Wakey & Widnes for me.

Channing is young and very raw. It's hard to progress and stand out when you're getting walloped week in, week out, in a poor side.

He impressed on Boxing Day and looks like a handy player still learning. But he's behind Webster, Shenton (Webster is going to be fit for around Round 2) and Ashley Gibson (scored 40 tries in 70 games). We also have Mariano who can fill a void in at centre if needs be.

Dorn offers some experience in the squad and is still a try scorer, very good at reading a game (he's a talent at interceptions). But he's not going to be the main man at Cas - providing he gets fit Seymour and Sneyd are likely to be steering HMS Castleford.

As for the Wheeldon, I don't know much about him except he's been around Super League ages without pulling up stumps but reports seem to indicate he has potential again but didn't get the best of times down in London.

Not going to lie, I'm hardly saying these are world-class or are going to be rampaging Super League like a bull seeing red. But they are consistent steady players and add much needed depth to a squad heavily reliant on its youngsters at times. This will give us the bonus of calling on some experienced heads when injuries and suspensions inevitably bite.

Seymour will not be playing any time soon!! He is about 15kg overweight!!

We will finish 9th I think. Definitely not weaker than last year and Brown and Mellor just got better and better every time they played together. Linked with Hanbury we will be dangerous in attack next year, just need to magic up a defence from somewhere.

London bottom for me. Just don't know enough about their squad and from all accounts only 13/14 players have been in pre season training. 4 weeks to go that's really not good at all

Wakefield have lost some very good players but retained a few and signed pretty well. I'm not going to say Cas look poor because they took 4 points off us last year but I really don't think they have strengthened. Every time I watched them last year Chase ran the show, really did but now it will be interesting to see how the workload is shared.

Bradford shouldn't be finishing in the bottom 2 with their squad but finances may have a say about selling a few players.