We were doing great until Mellor's injury. Since then, Brown's had to shoulder too much responsibility as pretty much our only playmaker - until yesterday when Gore was a revelation. Very optimistic now, with Mellor and Carberry maybe only 4 weeks or so away and Marsh soon to return. Backed us to finish in Top 8, and am pretty confident about the outcome.

I think if you offered us this position before the league started there wouldn't be many who wouldn't bite your hand off. However, we've not had it all our own way. We had a great start to the league contrary to previous seasons and we've took our chances. There have been a few worries as to how inventive we look and when Mellor went so did much of our go forward. It's a real shame.

On the plus side, we've shown on a few occasions recently that we have real fight when we go behind (although the wire game obviously isn't a good example of this) which hasn't always been the case and our defence was solid. We're where we are for a reason and I think the playoffs is still very realistic.