It's unpredictable because there isn't much between most of the teams apart from Wakefield. For the last 10 years are so there have been several tiers - usually 1-2 teams that dominate, then the next 3-4 that are a lot better than the rest. But there's only 1 good team in the league this year and that's why it's the weakest Championship overall for a long time.

That's how I see it.The standard at the top has dropped drastically. That's why we shouldn't get carried away and start thinking some of these players are better than they are.

Hull FC have sent Franklin Pele and Davy Litten on loan to York initially for two weeks.

What's the betting that Pele gets sent off or banned even on loan?

https://www.totalrl.com/toulouse-olympi ... e-in-2025/

https://www.totalrl.com/toulouse-olympi ... e-in-2025/

Yesterday Castleford announced the signing of Innes and Louis Senior

Today they announce Louis Senior is injured and unlikely to play again this season

I can't speyk

Viva Cas Vegas!

I struggle to see where Toulouse will have made improvements to score above what they did previously.

Matt Shaw, who seems to have had a real deep dive into it all, seems to think the last spot in the 12 is very close between Toulouse and Cas. He had Cas fans up in arms on social media the other week.

Interesting that nobody is talking about Leigh though, they were 12th on the initial scoring, scoring 12.45 and again, I struggle to see against the criteria where the improvement comes from? They instantly lose a point that was given for winning the cup, unless for whatever reason that wasn`t factored in?

Imagine the kerfuffle with Degsy if Leigh are considered for the drop. It will be biblical.

They have just got their academy licence plus, their cup final win last season.
Also, thier attendances have been pretty good.

I've thought the same about Leigh, I know Beaumont does a great deal of talking but as far as factual improvements I don't know of any, maybe apart from finances I've heard him mention but I'm not sure how that works, ie loans, gifts, because Ellis could and probably has stuck loads of money in and for effect could stick what he wants into the club.

Same as Toulouse, they are more than likely going to finish mid-table this season, unless they suddenly change things. But how & where are they going to make those small improvements that'll get them more points and into SL. I haven't heard of any, in fact, the opposite. The way I read that article in TRL, it almost seems that they think the number they got from IMG last time is going to be still competitive. Who knows.

Cup final win was last year and won't gain any IMG points this round.

So has Salford apparently, but I'm sure that doesn't count for anything as far as IMG points. Cup counts only one year. I also don't think their attendance figure will average over 7500 over the last 3 seasons, even if they have improved though, to move up into the next category to get more points..

These were the provisional gradings:

8 Salford Red Devils Super League 13.80
9 Huddersfield Giants 13.49
10 Toulouse Olympique Championship 12.97
11 Wakefield Trinity 12.52
12 Leigh Leopards Super League 12.45
13 Castleford Tigers 12.16
14 Bradford Bulls Championship 12.02
15 Featherstone Rovers 10.65

Cas made an error on their application and believe they are a point "missing" plus, they have added some seats.
We have our new stand and some decent attendances plus, finance and cup final appearance etc to factor in but, something could come out of the sky.
This is RL and anything can happen.