Lam as Coach

Quote: FearTheVee "Interesting take. I can see why you would be confident, but that one loss was to the team you say are doing worse on the back of losing with deliberately weakened teams at London and a loss in the cup to the team you lost to in the cup.

Realistically, ignoring deliberately weakened teams at London, we've lost one game in the league in early April. We're going for a 100% home record this weekend.

The recent dip in form over the same 11 game sequence you refer to has included (other than weakened teams at London)
All fair comment mate, however it's largely different interpretations of the same facts. You dismiss the London results because of weakened teams, for example, but fail to apportion the same reasoning to ourselves. We've been playing weakened teams all year (including throughout our run of 10 wins from 11) yet you're happy to use that as a definite marker of relative strength against a Saints team that's been largely at or near full strength. How do you reconcile that?

You mentioned that we lost in the cup to Warrington, which is true, but fail to point out that most pundits were of the opinion that we were the better side on the day, lost by only 2 points and beat them in the league the week before you capitulated to them in the final. In addition, our defeat to them was at a time we were, by common consent, garbage. Not exactly a good form line, then, I think you'll agree.

I'd be more interested to hear your takes on the challenge cup semi and final and last weeks game where you were pretty much at full strength in all instances. Grand Final winning form, in your opinion?

I'm not doubting for a moment that you go into the playoffs as favourites just as you did in the Challenge Cup and, as I pointed out, last season too. We all know what happened on both of those instances.