We should have enough against Catalans on Friday.

Carney and Tonga are absent for quite a while.

Escare & Dureau are major doubts and Casty could be banned.

The big one is the game after at Huddersfield a week on Sunday. If Huddersfield beat us I think we can say goodbye to the top 4 especially wth games against Saints and Wigan to come.

Well possibly Huddersfield will have five missing also,and your good to go.

After such a short turn around for Catalan when you take off their flights days, they are massively at a disadvantage this Friday.
If we lose this game at home like we have v Cas, Hudds and Hull (I think?) then I'll be rethinking that "be careful what you wish for" comment I made that got criticism from one or two posters.

I would expect Catalans to spend this week in Manchester.

Everyone who spent the last three years crying that games against the likes of Cas don't matter have got what they wished for, but it seems they have found a new excuse for not attending instead!

We definitely have the more level playing field this year that everyone was asking for to lift the excitement value of weekly games ,but some teams seem to have bought into the "every second counts " idea more than others.
Despite losing 2 lesser clubs the overall quality of SL is arguably worse than last with any available talent spread thinly throughout the 12 remaining clubs. In fact ,the clubs that seem to have shown improvement this year are the ones which have picked up older,experienced players while the youth producing clubs are finding times harder compared to their own standards.

Remember there's still 7 games after the split bud.. And with 4th-8th so close on points every game will be a four-pointer. Exciting times!