At this stage you’d have to say Wigan and Saints are a clear cut above those below them. Of course that doesn’t mean they’re unbeatable in play-off games but I’d bet my bottom dollar that Saints and Wigan finish 1st/2nd easily, and then it’s between Leeds, Cas, Hull and Ourselves for 3rd/4th.

As long as we keep improving we have a good chance of the 4 and who knows what could happen in one-off big games?

After next week we have Leeds, Wigan,Hull and Cas. Should pretty much know where we are after that run of games.

And they are all beatable if we turn up with an 80 minute game. Good out of the blocks & no post half time switch off & the Wire are capable of beating all those teams.

I agree but we need 1 - 17 with no injuries to beat any of them

There are first chioce players outside 1-17.

It’s an injury to any one or more of Roberts, Brown and Ratchford that worries me. Unfortunately we don’t have the depth in the key playmaking positions. I wonder whether it’s too late to try converting Smith back to half-back?

He is a half back that were currently converting into a hooker.

An injury to Clark would be the biggest blow to us. He is simply irreplaceable at the moment.

I agree Moe and how times have changed from the days of Clarke/Monaghan/Higham and to a (much) lesser extent Clarke/Dwyer as far as cover is concerned, or having a top drawer interchange hooker on the bench?

To be fair, it was our backs that needed sorting out and no one can question the club here can they, after some stalled attempts with the Sandow affair and over reliance on Russell and Evans and Hiku returning home prematurely?

We are starting to look better balanced with Goodwin and Charnley and Brown and Roberts, despite what some think, aren't the worst HB pair that we've had, or indeed in SL at present (Come on Roy give Roberts a chance ) Even M Brown as a back up utility player does give me a bit of comfort, he can do a job.

On reflection I think that M Smith is as good as Dwyer, question is will he make it to the next level? .....

UR, I really like Smith’s crisp passing but at present not sure he presents a similar running threat to Dwyer when he was on song.

I agree.
BD would have a go. He won me money a few times. £600 on one occassion.

Smith will turn out to be a MUCH better player than Dwyer (if he isn't already). Dwyer's passing is absolutely shocking for a SL hooker.....in fact he's the Matty Russell of the hooking world.

we should have tried dwyer on the wing, he would have given us good kick returns and runs from dummy half.

I hope this is tongue in cheek.

He's got cheeks like my cousin Orvill.