Or not to panic and get behind them if we get off to a less than brilliant start?

Think I jury's will dictate where some teams finish,which teams have the best and biggest squads.

This is going to be one of the hardest to pick of all. There don't appear to be any runaway brilliant sides and with London gone no horrendously bad ones either. There won't be many games at all where a team performing below par will get a win and unpredictable factors like injuries to key players are going to have a huge influence. There will be one team who will surprise like Cas did last year (hopefully us) and one which will disintegrate (hopefully the dobbins). Leeds will be interesting to watch, there's enough talent there to beat anybody but they are aging rapidly and can they survive the weekly grind. Salford are a time bomb, a side with grade A tools like Hock, Chase and Patterson in it could implode most spectacularly. The only sides I can see not making the 8 are Wakefield who just don't appear to have enough depth to get through the whole season, though I would still expect some impressive one off performances from and Widnes, who were very lucky to get there last year, haven't improved much and their plastic abomination of a pitch is losing its fear factor for visitors.

'plastic' turf pitches are the way forward though, certainly in rugby IMO

I agree with you there. Too many ageing players for me.

Played on the rugby specific 3G at York St John a few weeks ago and it wasn't that bad, certainly allowed faster rugby even in the rain. The scrapes weren't anywhere near as bad as what you get off bone dry thin grass pitches.

The bookies say:
Wigan
Saints
Wire
Leeds
Cats
Hudds
Salford
Hull
Cas
KR
Widnes
Wakey

Leeds 4th seems a stretch but all the bookies seem to agree that they are a street better than Catalan.

First 6 games are crucial. Any points in the first 4 games should be a bonus compared to last year's same fixtures. 4 points from 8 would be a great start seeing we have Huddersfield, Warrington, Salford and wigan

O good glad I'm not the only one.

We play Leeds before Wigan but I agree I agree 4 points from 8 should be the aim, but as always the manner of the defeats counts, I don't expect a win at Wigan for example but I won't accept another 56-10 debacle like last year. So long as we pick up some points and show we improving I'm happy.

Looking at that, my prediction is not too far off!! can I have a bit of what they are on please??