Whilst it was absolutely devastating to lose by such a small margin, the performance in the grand scheme of things was remarkable! As said elsewhere, our mistakes cost us... Especially not putting some snow on it!! A great reason to subscribe to Trinity TV, though? Surely? Don't call me Shirley!

I think this season is a great advert for supporting as many Trinity fund raising initiatives as possible. The Trinity TV has been great for re-living the recent run of victories under a much more relaxed atmosphere than the original live events.

Swap Burrow for Mullally and maybe Ferres for Delaney and that's our strongest team.

I said on another thread earlier that I am very happy where we are at, considered where we were too years ago.

On top of that about 75% of squad already signed up for next year and a very healthy youth set up too.

Some people have given us parallels to how Cas were in 2013 and how theyve made steady progress since. I actually believe ours has been quicker

You should be over the bloody moon not just very happy

We didn't make steady progress though. We went from 13th in the league when Powell turned up in 2013 to cup finalists and 1 game from the LLS in 2014.

If you manage to win both this year then you can say your improvement has been quicker

This is Chesters first full season in charge.

We had won something like 1 in 7 before he came.

Since then, we have a 60% win ratio. Not bad going for a team that doesnt spend full cap

Did we need a stay positive thread after that?! It was a cracking game, and Leeds just squeezed past us after a really tight, arm wrestle of a game - so we've lost our first game in 8. Nothing at all to moan or feel negative about!

Results this weekend almost guaranteed SLfor next year. Reason to be positive. I don't think Wire nor Catalans are going win their last five games.

Lets not count our chickens just yet.

Forget about the middle 8's. We should have done a long time ago. Is there the slightest chance of Catalan or Warrington winning all their remaining games whilst we lose all of ours? Not a chance.

Our focus is now that it's a 30 game season. It's where we finish after the Super 8's that's important.

Totally agree Slugger, business end of the season now, a massive Q Final, 5 crucial league games then into the toughest 7 games we have ever faced in Super League for a place in the top 4 and if we get past Salford on Thursday it'll be another crack at the semi. How wonderfully times have changed in Rugby League to see ourselves only 2 points off second place in the table and still in the Cup. I fancied us to do well this year and think I had us pretty high in my prediction final league table. It could all go pear shaped of course, who knows but I'm looking forward to more mouthwatering big games and let's see where it takes us.

Thoughts may change and dreams may wander to a time a few months from now when we might be preparing to face an NRL side in the World Club Challenge.

Whilst some of our fans on Leeds board played you down (think that just a trick to make the opposition sound poor just so they can moan more if we lose the game) I think you've done very well. Very tough to beat and barring one or two (including Cas away which is happening to most teams) then you've been in very close games.

Do think the cup game is massive though for more than just progression to the semis, not sure whoever wins between you and Salford can fight on two fronts. So a bit of a strange situation where a win would obviously be great but it might work out well if you lost with Salford perhaps slipping in the league and improving your top 4 chances.

Should we get through to the semi finals I think we will only be fighting on one front no matter who says otherwise - imho anyway

Agreed if we can stay with 2-4 points of 4th we are a chance when it splits- our players should be back - I worry about the next 5 games though tough draw and down on troops