Agree. Third from bottom is about right

You could see it as 3rd bottom or 6th which does sound a bit better

The challenge is for Hendo and the players to prove the bookmakers wrong.
I would expect Hendo not to be happy with 6th place. I feel he wants to improve on last season when points difference denied us place in the MPG.
The MPG is the aim.

We need to beat an SL team. We did it last year, away from home. We should win two of the three games against Championship opposition, we should run KR close.
If the players play to the best of their ability AND cut out the unnecessary mistakes we could make 5th.

Give away the penalties that we normally do then we have very little chance of beating the better teams, rugby league is a pretty simple game, keep hold of the ball for 5 tackles kick on the 6th. Get off the player you have just tackled when the ref tells you, that's about it really.

Cats game for me is very winnable... First game of the qualifers, Cats on a bad run, also being in France will take pressure off the team, where cats will be under immense pressure to win..... Score a couple of early tries and we could win this, and would set us up really well......

Although can see us beating Cats and losing to Fev... so concentration will be key

I would be more concerned about playing Featherstone if it was away. The fact that we are at home gives me confidence. I also understand that all is not well at Featherstone.

Hope I am proved wrong, I think we have very little chance of a win in Perpignan, there last outing they very easily could have beaten the best team in the comp, so have shown they can turn it on when they have too. I think there attack will be too much for us.
Like I say I hope I am wrong

There overall record at home has been poor, and they concede a fair few. If we started strongly, we would have a chance.........

I hope Catalan think that they will beat us. That gives us a chance to beat them.
They are not in the bottom four of Super League for no reason and I only wish we had them at home, where I think the odds of winning would be greater. Still we have just got to give it our best shot.
What we do not want to do is lose by a large margin. That is what cost us last year, when Hull KR put too many points on us.

Not sure our game at yours is pencilled in as a sky game, if that's the case its a real bummer as it wil definately limit the number of Wire fans to attend.

Catalan have the worst defensive record in SL but balance that against a better attack than the other 3 super league teams we will face, I still reckon at there place they will be too strong for us. We just need to get through this game with a decent performance.
We have to target the KR and Widnes games. At home Leigh we can beat. So I reckon loss in France loss against wire.
Karetaker, hope yr lot still bring a few down, it could be a good game.

Details, please.

From what I have been told. The sacking of Jon Sharp and appointment of Duffman has not gone down well with everyone at the club.
The players were given time off in the break,as were ours. However this was cancelled at very short notice. Players had things arranged with their families for this time, this has created some strife.
In addition, to come fourth in the competition behind Halifax has somewhat dented their pride.

Meh. There are always going to be noses out of joint when a coach goes but anyone who saw the effort the players put in in Toulouse (including one 13-minute passage where Fev defended 9 consecutive sets inside our own 40) would have to accept that the players have responded well to the new coach so far.

Indeed, there's a piece in today's RL Express where Duffy talks about how happy he has been with the players' attitudes - "with a new coach coming in at this stage they could have bought out, but their attitude has been first class", and he also says some players that had booked holidays chose to remain with the squad.

As for pride being dented by finishing behind Fax, that's nonsense. They beat us (and played very well) in a game that was meaningless to us and meant everything to them, and generally in Fev we are very pleased we finished 4th not 3rd - it's meaningless in terms of finance for next year but it means we get Leigh, Warrington and Hull KR at home, all of whose fans will travel in numbers, whereas Fax have Catalans, Widnes and us - we will probably take more fans to the Shay than either of the SL teams. The one scenario we didn't want as a club is having Catalans, Toulouse or London as one of our home games, and luckily we've avoided all three.