I never really thought we were in a relegation battle, but that's more because of my belief that Wakefield are the worst team in SL history rather than me having faith that we would turn it around. But we have seen in recent times teams who everyone thinks are too good to go down get dragged right in to a scrap and only just get themselves out of trouble towards the back end of the year.

It's amazing how quickly things turn around though. All of a sudden Smith seems to have found a way to motivate them and we've just put in two of the most committed performances we've had in a long time. Beat Wakefield next week and I think their fate will be sealed and we can actually start to look at plotting a path to the playoffs rather than a path to survival.

can we not change this thread to old trafford dogfight??

Could do with a decent margin victory against Wakey to help with our points difference, mind you just keep winning is still good

Wakey have long been a bit of a banana skin for us, and Sod’s Law they’ll show up like Melbourne Storm next week. Think last time we really piled it on them was when Rich Whiting managed to break down the wing and go the length. Even he looked shocked no one had caught him.

Vaguely remember Sam Moa doing something similar until his legs gave up about 20 meters from the line

Respectfully I'd disagree, I think we were definitely fighting relegation, until the last two games.
In two home games, against Rovers and Salford, we shipped 100 points, scoring only 14 in return, we had lost 7 games on the spin, as we all know. Had Smith been unable to turn this around, with pressure mounting and the inevitable Wakefield resurgence, we were right in it. I do agree with some a lot of comments about the coming fixture, win that and I'd say we are safe.

I was there and remember it well, looked like he was running in quicksand god knows how he made it!

Seemingly a bit more of a fight from Wakefield last night, the Proctor red card not helping their cause. A different challenge for Hull next week, the last couple of games have seen us as the underdog. Be interesting to see how they go with the favourites tag again. Still a massive game IMO.

Found the highlights on YouTube, he even broke away again but offloaded at the first sign of trouble

That white, blue, and gold away strip is one of our better efforts from over the years.

Do you think we can lock this thread? Or is it too soon?

Think Wakefield are done, any team that is relying on Luke Gale being their saviour deserves to go down.

Cas 32-6 down after 35 mins... looking like a two horse race for relegation

Feel for last he was always on a hiding to nothing with that job.

To think people wanted to give Last the job full time here.

Leeds aren't much better tonight though