Like most posters I don't envisage a massive change from last year across the board. Taking a punt, I will go for the following: 1. Wire 2. rovers (2nd to Wire on points difference!) 3. Wigan 4. Saints --------------------------- 5. Catalans 6. Leeds 7. Leigh 8. Salford -------------------------- 9. Huddersfield 10. Fc 11. Cas 12. Wakefield Grand Final: Wigan (comfortably beating rovers!) C. Cup Final: Wire (comfortably beating rovers!!) There could be any movement within those three separate groups but the league again has a top, middle, bottom air about it. I notice that everyone who's posted so far has each team in roughly the same place so there seems to be a general consensus about how it may pan out over the year. There is usually at least one team who do better than predicted at the start with at least one favoured team going in the opposite direction so you can never be wholly sure with these predictions. Even though there is a more positive air around the club I still think we are having to come from a long way back after these recent horrendous years. It's more about the attitude and performance level with us that I'm interested in, Although I'm hoping to witness more than three wins this time round! There are a lot of questions around those bottom five clubs I've listed, with no one really knowing how any of them will go. I'd take 8th for us right now as a positive, but after these past years I'm loathe to set my sights too high, we really have been badly burned of late and I'm wary at setting my sights too high. One step at a time and all that. Like I said, if we're competitive most weeks we should win more games than of late and at least start to look like we are travelling in the right direction again. Let's hope in future we look back on 2025 as the year the fight back commenced. Honestly think that is the best we can hope to see in 2025.

[quote="REDWHITEANDBLUE":2ner1kxg]Get ready to be disappointed, not saying my team are going to set the league on fire having just got promoted but the Hull squad overall is bang average let's see how the new coach goes but nothing but a fight with bottom clubs for Hull. In my opinion of course.[/quote:2ner1kxg] Thanks for your insight

[quote="Jake the Peg":zl0d6tjd]It would be interesting to know how the 2 local "power boards" stack up in terms of their wealth. Ours comes out at about £1/2bn. I think Dave Kilburn was worth about £100m. How much are hudge, sewell and mcnicol worth between them? I'm not sure if kilburn has ever put any money into rovers though?[/quote:zl0d6tjd] I'm not sure splashing out on Hugo qualifies them as a power board Jake

[quote="Jake the Peg":xl1cifiq]Mikey lewis is by far and away rovers best player as he was last season. Lose him and they will be 4th to 6th. If he stays fit they'll be top 3[/quote:xl1cifiq]a few injuries for your boys and you could be serving the soup

We need John Asiata to play min 20 games or else I feel we’re 9th

I also think Wakey will be fighting at the bottom, they have made some good signings, as have we, but alot of their overseas players are untested at SL level. For me they lack creativity, pivots of Jowitt, Trueman, Russell, Hood and Pitts hardly set fear in sides. Like us they have a couple of injury risky signings too. It's OK playing against part time teams but SL is another level. I wouldn't be suprised if we finished above them or vice versa to be honest.