Its going to be an excellent League next season and you can certainly add several other teams to your list. This is good news, I don't want to see blow out scores, I want to see close matches, I want to see the league leadership change and the top 6 change on a weekly basis, I want to see the bottom four sides one or two wins away from a top 6 position. If the bookies were setting their odds today I think they would struggle to pick an odds on favourite for the title.

Nah. We are favourite.
I want it to be competitive but I'm happy to bet on us winning.

I don't think the squad as it stands would suggest so. York are looking tasty, Featherstone will be there again. Toulouse look ambitious and Bradford have recruited well.

One thing I will say about Toulouse, I don't feel they can up there score significantly more than what it is now, where Trinity can.

Back to the IMG population figures. Huddersfield must be in the same boat as us. Kirklees has three teams Hudds, Dewsbury and Batley. I think the lucky West Yorks team to come out of all this farcical counting method is Halifax as they are the only team in the Calderdale District.

Sorry PB,It doesn't affect those 3 teams,they get more points than our 3 teams in WMDC. The KIRKLEES population is over 400,000 so all 3 teams have over 130,000 [the IMG magic figure] each at least,Huddersfield, Dewsbury and Batley get more points than us, Cas and Fev Rovers