Saints
Leeds
Wigan
Catalans
Warrington
Bradford
Hull FC
Huddersfield
Hull KR
Harlequins
Wakefield
Castleford
Salford
Celtic

Leeds
Saints
Wire
Hull FC
Wigan
Catalans
Huddersfield
Hull KR
Bradford
Castleford
Harlequins
Salford
Wakefield
Celtic

Saints
Leeds
Wigan
Catalans
Bradford
Warrington
Hull FC
Hull KR
Quins
Castleford
Salford
Huddersfield
Wakefield
Celtic

Made some good signings IMO.

They certainly have, few bad ones as well but they are more than likely to be challenging for the top 6, depends on carney though and carney has been known to go off the rails.

Todd Carney's off field behaviour will let him down though. IMO Hodgson will take a bit of time to adapt but they will come good at the end.

1. Leeds
2. Saints
3. Wire
4. Wigan
5. Rovers
6. Catalan
7. Bradford
8. Hudds
9. Hull
10. Quins
11. Cas
12. Wakey
13. Celtic
14. Salford

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Nothing wrong with a bit of optimism.

After this World Cup debacle does it matter?

The SL clubs will continue as before in their narrow minded me me me attitude at the expense of everything else, complain that no one is interested in turning up through the turnstiles and that we are improving year on year to be comparable to the Toyota Cup(deliberate point) in Australia.

All that SL will do in the next 2 years and a bit is look at getting a franchise at all costs and sod the wider picture and paying lip service to development ( franchise rules included)

The game will continue to believe that it can the Aussies a run for their (ours!!! ) money and the next set of tests will be as before.

We can't compete at test level and no one is interested especially in Aus (15500 for a World Cup Semi in the biggest market proves that).

But lets keep the rose tinted glasses on, the glass more than 1/2 full and know that we are better skilled than the Aussies cos the game keep telling us it is so.


The emperors new clothes comes to mind.


Oh the top 6 will be as previous years with the normal 4 (Bulls, Rhinos, Saints, Wigan) plus a couple from Wire, Hull, and possibly KR and Giants

Sadly I believe the Catalan was a blip (nice though it was)

The fact the top 4 is a practically given is a sad sad indictment of the game

It's interesting that your 'practically given' top four have not occupied all the top four places in SL since 2003.

How much deviation has there been and then apply to the top 6 but your point since 2003 is noted.

And of course all this means we have a very intensive competition and can produce teams for tests that compete and regularly wallop the Aussies.

Sorry for not seeing the obvious.

Right, so because the national team performed poorly we should just give up playing domestic RL altogether.

Please explain your correlation.

I can't see what you are implying from my post

Sorry for not getting it.

Yes. It does. Why would a poor performance by the National team mean domestic results are no longer important?