You've said it a million times Jean, we get it.

Toulouse have just destroyed a top 4 pretender which goes by the name of Halifax. 38-6 is a fairly decisive drubbing.

A full time TO have just beaten a well managed PT team who punch above there weight at home.

Let us watch Toulouse put Halifax to the sword again at Halifax later this year.

Full-time vs part time is irrelevant. If Halifax cannot compete full time then they don't deserve to be considered for promotion to Super League.

I think you'll find that there's no-one at Halifax who considers that they have any chance of promotion to SL this season, or indeed for quite a while. We thought we'd turned a corner after beating Leigh, but that's been probably the only highlight for us this season. Hats off to TO, and well done today. We were hopeful that Fax would be competing for a top 4 place, but this does look increasingly unlikely now unless we can somehow recapture the form we showed towards the end of last season.

A fantastic result from an expansionist team against a heartlands team

Regards

King James

The Championship looks a very interesting league this year, not just because of expansion clubs all doing well but because of the traditional clubs that they are continuously measured against. Without either of them. The league wouldn't be half as interesting.

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If there ever is going to be a right time to expand Super League, it’s now.

This.

You're like a one man band. Quite talented playing a few instruments, but you only know one tune......., but will that tune still be the same after the weekend, where there are some mouthwatering clashes coming up, 1st Hosting 2nd, 3rd hosting 4th and then (as it stands now) 2nd v 4th and a resurgent pre-season favourite Leigh hosting "that there London".....the table could look oh so different 8 days time because some of the top teams are going to drop points!

I hope Jean/Kev/Lebron isn't including Catalan in this expansion, this season shows why they do not deserve a seat at the top table.

Jean thinks so to with the lack of Catalan butt kissing at the moment, even he has come to realise they are garbage.

LONG way to go yet.....Championship top 4 is not a cert by any means.

It'll be a hell of a lot clearer in a weeks time.
Leigh will need 4 points to stand a chance.......good win for them at the weekend but the bottom 2 are very weak so you'll have an easy Friday whilst we'll be tested to the full, so we may well rock up on Monday tired and injured......anything is possible.

The most losses for 4th place is 8 (happened 3 times) but maybe 5th is the best we can hope for, that just leaves Halifax and er......???

You are correct, this weekends Championship fixtures are truely mouthwatering.

London, Toulouse and Toronto have been given very tough Easter fixtures, with both games against the other top clubs.

Leigh and Featherstone’s Easter fixtures are much more favourable, a significant advantage for those clubs in the league. I wonder if Derek had some influence over this when he was picking up his £500,000 which no other Championship club received.

The Easter fixtures are notoriously difficult to predict, but I think the winners will be.

London to win v Toulouse
Toronto to win v Featherstone
Leigh to win v Swinton

Toronto to win v Toulouse
London to win v Leigh
Featherstone to win v Rochdale