I'm not a fan of the loop fixtures as they just serve a purpose of getting more fixtures due to it being a 12 team league. Increasing the league to 14 would negate the need for the loop fixtures to an extent but would mean the central pot then has to be shared by another 2 clubs. A 14 team league for me would be a much fairer system and a level playing field for all as every team plays each other once home and away.
The problem I have with the loop fixtures is it removes the level playing field by having a system in which you play each team home and away but then the league is split in to odds and evens where all the teams that finished the league on an odd number play each other once, and the same with the evens. The Loop fixtures would have been better if each team then played every other team once more, the only problem is that would extend the season by a further 5 weeks/games.

Salford could be in danger, depends what happens with them and they have a thin squad.

Leighs an interesting team, lost alot of quality, a few gamble signings, but still have Ipapa and Lam.

As ever alot of teams succes will be based in injuries

Realism sucks.

I did think about mentioning Salford but just judging it by the squad they have on the books currently. If mass sales have to occur then that obviously changes things. Re Leigh if there's one thing Adrian Lam has proven to be very good at, its identifying talent from Australia who have fallen out of favour for whatever reason. My gut tells me they won't make the 6 this year - would probably go with Leeds and Catalans to replace Leigh and Salford. I doubt they'll be far off though.