A good guess this thread will be as all pre season forecasts are.

Wigan
Warrington
St Helens
Catalans
Huddersfield
Leeds
Salford
Castleford
Hull FC
Hull KR
Wakefield
Widnes

Gone for my club Wigan as top, recruited well with a new style of play next year plus added pace to the pack, half backs and backs. Look better prepared this year than last to cope with injuries.
Wire 2nd as they again have quality if not quantity in recruitment. An all round good squad.
Saints 3rd. Again have recruited well with Burns and Vea. They have lost senior players though Long's returning will be interesting
Gone for Catalans as 4th, with Carney and Dureau as half backs behind their big pack they could well make the top four with improved away form.
Huddersfield 5th will be good again but think they'll slip back a bit.
Leeds 6th They've not recruited well and lost experienced players.
Salford 7th, will do better this year. Kevin Locke could be one of SL's stand out players.
Cas 8th, will slip back IMO. Losing Clark, Huby and Ellis will affect them badly I feel.
Hull FC 9th, Signing Pryce. Sneyd & Manu shows they are recruiting as badly as ever.
Hull KR 10th, They have good signings but have to overcome their own inconsistent form.
Wakefield 11th, Some big forwards brought in but lack quality over all for top 8.
Widnes 12th. Hardly recruited at all and look very vulnerable over a long season.

cant even get hull fc signings right so hardly in a position to predict ours! fyi manu went back home to australia

Do you mean Kirke & Bailey? That's actually a positive

We haven't signed Manu, he's retired.

I made a comment earlier about him being our highest paid player. I don't know the ins and outs but apparantley there was some EBT scheme that he opted into (it's since been done away with). A portion of his salary went into this, but it was never actually paid by the previous owners, so now Pearson has had to settle to the tune of £200,000. That's what I meant.

Read about him being the highest paid player so thought he'd signed. See what you mean, Pearson having to fork that amount out, poor sod!
As a matter of interest what position do you think you'll finish at?

It's a good sign that so many people are getting offended at other people predictions for their clubs because it shows how competitive it should be.

I fancy Wigan, Saints, Warrington, Leeds and Catalans to make up the top 5 positions in some order but the rest could be anything.

I look at Wakey and Widnes and a lot have them down for 11th and 12th place but with a good start momentum can build and they could quite easily get in that top 6-8 places.

7th or 8th is realistic I think. I like our backs and our back row is, imo, second only to Wigan's. Props are capable when they want to be, but they've got to show it alot more often than they did last year. Hooker is a worry. I hope James Cunningham can prove me wrong but I just don't think he's good enough, and Houghton can't be expected to play 80 every week.

Jury is out with the half backs. I was really pleased when we signed Sneyd but his form dipped noticeably at the end of the season. Pryce also, I've always rated him, but what has he got left in the tank? It wouldn't surprise me if the back end of season sees us with Rankin and Harry Tyson Wilson as the half backs. I don't think that's a bad thing either.

The main problem is Radford. I don't think it's a bad squad at all. There's some really talented players there. Put a top class coach in charge of those players and we are a top 6 team and maybe better imo. He may learn a lot from his first year and come back much better, but I'm not holding my breath.

In order:

1. Wigan
2. Saints
3. Warrington
4. Leeds
5. Huddersfield
6. Catalans
7. Castleford
8. Widnes
9. Salford
10. Wakefield
11. Hull FC
12. Hull KR

1. St Helens
2. Leeds
3. Warrington
4. Salford
5. Wigan
6. Hull KR
7. Huddesfield
8. Castleford
9. Wakefield
10. Catalan
11. Widnes
12. Hull

A) Radford first coach to be sacked.
B) St.Helens to do the double.
C) St Helens v's Warrington Grand Final.

You really shouldn't be posting if you're under 11 years of age. You've obviously got some anger issues as well

Good Friday was a good barometer of full strength teams going at it and you were hammered at Langtree Park. Wigan also suffered with a massive injury list as did many others throughout the season so your delusional quote of you finishing 8 points clear of everyone fit is just that.

Reality is they were the best two teams in the competition and most likely will be again this year.

It really is quite balanced and hard to predict. A lot of clubs have a wide range of finishing positions.

St Helens have the best squad on paper, but a question mark over their coach.

People are underestimating Catalans who should be much better this year not just because of Carney (if he doesn't self-destruct) but because of the return of Casty as main forward.

Leeds could literally come anywhere between 1st and 10th. Still have the best 1-5 in the league if they can learn how to use them and some forwards (Peacock, Ablett, Cuthbertson) who would get into every other side. But they played terribly for the second half of last season.

Cas have signed some decent players but lost their two most important men from last year. And Luke Gale is rubbish.

Salford can do well if, and it's a big if, Chase can blend with Dobson.

Wigan
St Helens
Catalans
Warrington
Huddersfield
Leeds
Salford
Hull KR
Castleford
Widnes
Wakefield
Hull FC

That is interesting