Still very unlikely BUT if we can win the last 4 we have a chance. So far other games have gone our way so the Fat Lady still hasnt swigged the Lea & Perrins just yet. It could well be a Gunfight at OK Corale v Widnes. Possible predictions are below ( Have not included Hull FC just yet.) I would guess Bet fred would lay something like 8/1 on Salford reaching the 8. :-

Wakey currently 19 pts

Saints away win
Salford home lose
Cas away lose
HKR home lose

19 + 2

Widnes

hudd a l
wigan h l
bulls a w
salf a l

21 + 4

Salford

catalan h w
wakey w
broncos w
widnes w

17+ 8

Hull kr

wigan l
hull fc w
catalan l
wakey w

18 + 6

If the unbelievable happens - whats the Weather like in Perpignan in September?

Can't see it happening if i'm honest not doom & gloom just realistic. We just need to focus on the next game Catalans which will be a tough game and see where we are from there.

I agree Fozzy - for me its a 1 in 9 chance - but surely IH has not given up the ghost and as you say the Catalans match is pivotal.

Yeah he's still got to motivate them in the same way. But funnier things have happened. Be great achievement if we got there.

Still possible and the players should be aiming for it. After our recent performances stretching as far back as Cas away (Wigan excluded) we've really started to turn a corner and you'd have to say these four games are more than winnable.

Beat Catalans and Wakefield then surely it's all on.

We're still heavily reliant on other results at the mo.

We could win all 4 remaining games and still not make the 8 if one or two other results go against us.

I feel there's still 2 places up for grabs though. I don't think Catalans are safe. Especially if we beat them next week.

I'll be hionest I am happy that we are still in the mix.

If you would have said to me 10 weeks ago that we were aiming for 8th spot with 4 games to go then I would have laughed, Lestyn has done a great job turngin it round and there is definately something there.

A few salford fans need to get things into respective imho, on my way out of the wigan game (granted our worse performance for a while) there were a few moaning that we were same old salford.

We were playing at the DW after an embarrasing defeat. If we were Leeds/ saints/ hudds I think they would have had a battering as well imo.
Also it is wigan away, no matter how good we will get wigan away is always going to be a tough ask!!

I am ever hopefully and ill be there next week!!!

COME ON SALFORD

Have had a look at the other 2 but I think Catalans should manage to scrape in :-

Hull FC Currently 18 points

Bradford w
Hull KR l
Huddersfield l
Leeds l

18 + 2 = 20


Catalan Currently 23 points

Salford l
London w
Hull KR w
Cas l

23 + 4 = 27

Catalans have got London at home. That will take them to at least 25 points, so I can't see them missing out.

If we win all four we could be in with fair chance. Would need Widnes to lose 3, HKR 2 and Hull and Wakefield one each.

Nightmare scenario would be going into the last game needing to win to make the 8 and then pulling out another shocker against Widnes.

It will be hard for Dennis Betts to lift Widnes after today.

Friday Nights game now a vital one for the club if we are to achieve the impossible.

It's possible but unlikely I think the unknown in all of this are the Bulls they play both Hull and Widnes and their recent results seem to indicate that they have had a lot of the pressure taken of their performances so they go one or two ways they either keep the recent form or their form is a a new coach honeymoon period and they revert back to their previous form.
Whichever it could be an interesting few weeks.

The clubs finishing in the top 8 this year enter next year's Challenge Cup one round later than everyone else. Widnes are still probably favourites to finish 8th, but there must be a fair chance they'll be excluded from the Cup next year, so 9th place has now become something worth playing for.

I would doubt very much Widnes will be excluded from next year's cup. That would be an entirely disproportionate punishment for what happened. They'll get a fine and slap out a few lifetime bans and issue statements saying they are working with "stakeholders" to resolve the problem but chucking them out of the cup because of the actions of a few not rights would be wrong and without precedent.

If you view it in isolation then maybe not but, unfortunately, Widnes have a bit of previous on fandickery (Wakefield last year, for example) so exclusion isn't necessarily as far-fetched as you might think. Even Widnes fans have been raising the possibility. I'm not saying it [iwill[/i happen though. All I'm saying is that if 8th place drifts out of reach, 9th might still be worth aiming for.