This is genuinely how I see this season panning out.

Firstly, I believe we will stay up. This isn’t out of naivety or rose tinted spectacles, I just think there are so many variables. We will lose games we should win and probably win a game we should lose.

I think that staying up will be spun as a victory for Chester, steering the Good Ship Trinity through hard times.

I think this will buy him another season. Probably with a new Assistant Coach or “Director of Football “ who just happens to be really handy at coaching defence.

These are just musings of course and may be very wide of the mark.

I too was a little surprised that they had been given time off, but having spoken to an ex player he told me that it can be a good idea and that getting them in every day knocking seven bells out of the tackle bags can be counter productive and increase any malaise that there may be. Giving them six days off allows them to refresh mentally as well as physically and hopefully comeback ready and up for the fight. Flogging them day in day out at training may not necessarily be the best. I hope he's right, time will tell.

This is it for me...if they turn up at Saints and put in a similar "non-performance" like they did at Wigan, then it clearly hasn't worked.
If, however, they put in a similar performance to what they did at BV against Saints at the start of the season, then although we might not win, it will be all about the performance and at least we SHOULD have a platform to build on for the last few games of the season

Wise words Cats13. I'm completely with you on that.

We all want the players mentally and physically fit and healthy. Maybe there has been a problem in these areas unaddressed for far too long.

What I suggest the whole team including the coaching staff do is, watch this morning's game between Melbourne and Manly. That is what you get, especially defensively, when you have 2 fully committed teams, who are well coached, and each individual knows their roles within the framework of a team. Yes as individuals some of them may have more ability, but it's not all about that. That game should be a blueprint to which all RL teams aspire......and it probably won't be the best game of the season down there!!