Considering how they are playing lately,i could imagine one or all of Hudds,Wakey & Catalans being potential banana skins for any or all of the traditionally big teams .

Huddersfield are in a similar situation to what St Helens were last year. Saints made the top four when Salford fell away.

Obviously, I can’t see us falling away like Salford,our squad is too good and it would take a disastrous run of injuries to stop us from making top 4 , I’m more concerned about what we can do to make top 2 , a few players need to step their game up and Challenge Cup may be a factor in how we finish

We only need to worry about 5-8 when/if they introduce a 4 vs 5 play off game.

For me this year is a free hit for Wire. It’s Price’s first year. I don’t think we’re a particularly good side and we have gaps in our team that even Clark and Austin don’t fully make up for next year.

Our issues are: no pace in the pack/lack of depth in the front row/Currie a huge loss/no leader in the halves/inconsistent players dotted around the squad/poor kickers/poor execution of the end of sets near the opposition line/terrible execution of drop goals at the end of games/could be better at left wing and right centre...

Outside that great run of wins (8 in a row), our season has been quite poor (W6 D1 Licon_cool.gif. That run of form from the 8 wins in a row is long gone and we’ve won just 7 games out of 15 against the other top 8 sides all season, that’s just 46% (4 out of 11 against the other top 6 sides, that’s just 36%).

With our issues as a squad and the form/trend we have against the other top 8 sides, at this rate if we win 46% of our seven Super 8 games that is just 3 wins!

At least it’ll keep the Super 8s interesting