Last time we won at home against a team currently in the play-off positions.

Our home form is starting to worry me for the play-offs. We've started to lose those tight games recently that we'll need to win to make it to the Grand Final. If we lose in week 1 of the play-offs we'll still be at home in week 2, before having to play away in week 3 (should we win in week 2). If we do make it I can see us doing it the hard way.

We need to bring that mentality we seem to have when playing away to our home games or I fear a very disappointing end to the season.

EDIT - perhaps even more worryingly, since we beat Stains on Good Friday we've only been involved in 6 games which have been decided by 2 scores or less - and lost 5 of them. Are we turning in to a team of flat-track bullies who don't have the bottle to win the tight games?

Yes leeds away makes your point exactly....

It might have helped your point if you understood what a "?" is.

It might also helped your point if you realised that a 12 - 26 scoreline is more than 2 scores difference.............

Or maybe we are a team that even when not on top form can still get within 2 points of the rest of the top 8!!

so what you're saying is that the fact that all the games we have lost has been by a small amount is a good thing, not this year it seems. The fact that in each of our losses since Quins we've had to contend with either crap weather, props missing in the pack, players sinbinned unfairly for us but not the opposition or a combination of any of these things I think its a bloody miracle we've managed to keep things so close.

Im not sure if your agreeing with me or not!! Like you say in all them games we have had to contend with things and still been competitive that would suggest to me we arent far off against anyone!!

On the day all wigan leeds saints wire can beat each other imo.

Saying this, you have to believe leeds and saints are in for a poorer run in the play-offs, as they have picked up a few key injuries, nonetheless they still deserve to be there.

Hopefully leeds and warrington will pick up a few injuries in the CC, which could just give us the upperhand. Its a massive positive for us not playing a part in the CC and if we win at KR this weekend it could give us an extra game to rest players if necessary.

And so it continues.

That's 6 close games of out 7 we've lost now and still haven't beaten a team at home in the play-off places since March. I've got a bad feeling about Friday.

Aye me too.

Maybe it's the pressure of expectation from the crowd that gets to us but then we come out of the blocks without a care in the world. We need to learn quickly how to hang in there when teams come back at us.

Beat HKR next week and we'll be reet playing away where ever

Yes we have responded well every time this season after a defeat. My worry is it is a play-off game at home and we seem to have started bottling home games to play-off teams for a while now.

I'm actually pretty confiedent of going to either Stains or the Whinos and coming away with a win. For me our hardest game will be Friday.