Outright 3rd after 13 rounds. I was not expecting that.
Starting to get our home form back and if we can do the French at the KCOM on Friday we could open up a little cushion on the chasing pack.
Cas have Wires and Wakey away to Huddersfield respectively, so both fairly tough.
Would be nice to have a four point advantage in 3rd after round 14.

Certainly handily placed coming up to the midway point of the season.

Catalans on Friday is a vital game for the reasons as pointed out by my honourable friend, the member for Withernsea.

Warrington away... well lets not talk about that but the Magic game is another one that we should be winning.

Hang on a minute. I'm confused. Mrs. B said we would struggle today with Wakefield's super duper set of forwards?

Good to be in 3rd. Lots of teams are misfiring this year, but you can only beat what's in front of you as they say. Hopefully we can consolidate this position in the coming weeks and find out best form at the business end.

3rd is very important with the new playoff structure. Has to be our goal now.

I thought we would, especially with Mini, Bowden and Lane missing and losing Hadley mid game plus Ellis in the bin and Paea off for a head assessment. Forward battle result very pleasing and unexpected from my perspective.

Fair enough. As I said pre match, I felt it was a game that we should be winning. Wakefield's pack is good, but it's only Fifita that is really top class. As a whole they are well behind the likes of Saints, Cas and even Catalans imo. It becomes a better result when you take into account Faraimo dropping out of the squad and the in game injuries.

Good to hear of your new found optimism and expectations.

Shame we threw away the 2 points at the dobbins or it would have been even better

They spawned a try with 6 seconds to go as opposed to us throwing it away.

And now for some common sense - we're third in a dogpoo super league and about a million miles away from being a Super League winning side. Only Saints are quality, Wire are reasonable, the rest are dross - SL this year is really poor on the whole as it has been for many years - a decent coach can make their team run away with it ala Saints

Third place flatters us massively - against Saints we lost 62-16, against Wire we lost 63-12 - both utter drubbings - we're miles away! But if people want to stroke themselves to sleep with grins like cheshire cats because were third but still miles off then good for you

Nothing new found about it. Go have a look at the prediction threads in pre season. I said we would make the playoffs with a bit to spare.

Still doesn't mean I think Radford can take us where we want to go. We are a mile behind Saints and Warrington. But as I have said before, I really hope to be proved wrong, and if we can finish 3rd and go into the playoffs with a healthy squad, well maybe I will be. You've got be in it to win it.

Yes he is back, how can you say 3rd flatters us, yes we are 3rd because we have won more gamnes than the pack below us, yes we are 3rd without really playing well consistantly.

I am not super happy with how we have played this season so far, but I am super happy we are 3rd and that is because I am a HULL FC supporter, unlike you.

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Dreary dreary me. Give up and watch that dire team on your doorstep. That could really make you ill.