it was sarcasm, when a team loses, most of the time, fans will have a reason why!

I agree, can't remember the last time I saw a SL game and there was an error that led to a try or a piece of soft defending.

Tbf. Catalans will be disappointed with Paea's try, that was really poor defending. Obviously the Griffin try should never be scored either. The defending wasn't great for the Faraimo try, but it was still a decent move with a lovely tap on by Connor, and he is a big boy. Talanoa's was a good try, and Down's was nice work by Sneyd to spot the unset defence and a nice line run.

On the other side, their first try shouldn't be conceded with that many defenders around. Their second was a try you see all the time in SL.

I look forward to a Hull KR defensive masterclass when we play though.

We won't have much of a guide as to who will be a good candidate for silverware until the end of round 11. Everybody has to play everybody else.

The only complication is that Catalans' performances are usually more positively effected by playing in France than other teams' performances are effected by playing at home.

Do you mean affected?

League Leaders - St Helens
Grand Final Winners - Hull FC. Harry Sunderland Trophy - Albert Kelly.
Challenge Cup Winners - Castleford Tigers. Lance Todd Trophy - Grant Millington.

Man of Steel - Luke Gale.
Young Player of the Year - Jacob Trueman.
Top Tryscorer - Ben Barba.
Coach of the Year - Justin Holbrook.

This one hurts. Had we not gone into liquidation he would probably have been our starting half by now. And the future he has looks very bright indeed.

Yes I do. Thanks for pointing that out.

Looks like he might start the season as our first-choice 6 this year.

It’s hard to tell how this season will pan out as injuries and suspensions will inevitably play their part.

Leeds and Cas won’t perform as well as they did last season IMO, with other teams below improving.

Saints are the favourites for the top and Hull will be there or thereabouts. Wire will improve enough to make the 8 but not the 4.

See top 8 as Saints, Hull, Cas, Leeds, Wigan, Wakefield, Warrington and Hudds.

I can see Wigan/Wire gunning for the cup if the season doesn’t pan out the way they wanted in the league.

It's interesting because a lot of people kept saying last year that Leeds weren't performing well (and we arguably weren't) even though we were 2nd for a lot of it.
We've still got plenty of room for improvement performance wise from last years regular season.

Definitely. Perhaps we're due a season where we play well when it least matters and the trophies go elsewhere. As opposed to 2016 when we didn't play well at all and last year when we played as you've described.

No team had anywhere near the same pressure on them to do well last year as Leeds did after how 2016 panned out. It was all about winning games for Leeds regardless of how attractive it looked especially after the Cas hammering early doors.

No pressure on us to deliver this year could really see us back to 2015 season style.