@SirStan, Wakefield haven't done that badly in terms of scoring tries, they put 50 past Catalans and had only just lost to the Saints before coming to our ground. Our defence which had previously been quite shaky, limited them to a lucky try which is an encouraging sign.
How is finishing in the Top 8 the height of my ambition? I knew that if I posted anything that you'd pick loads of holes out of it, yet if I said that we are going to finish in the Top 4 or win the Challenge Cup or whatever you'd have called me deluded. If I said could we avoid relegation you'd have called me under ambitious. So what am I meant to do?

It’s always very difficult to gauge anything this early in the season, there’s usually a surprise front runner, cas have held this position a few times and they will falter as the season goes on, what they have now is runs on the board which will be difficult for a team like us to claw back. I expect the usual teams to fall into their respective positions over the next 10 rounds
Sunday showed us where we are, not good enough to trouble the good teams but better than the relegation fodder of Bradford, London and Wakey. In one way there is a comfort that if it had gone the other way we were definitely in the mix for the drop but as stan says the alternative of being a team struggling to make the 8 isn’t really inspiring to the paying public.
Sandercock should no way be offered a contract extension, but equally unless a viable alternative comes up I’d probably stick with him until the end of the season and then wave g’day, that could all change if we go on a lengthy losing streak of course.
A win on Sunday looks to be our only hope of a ray of sunshine this year, lose and it will just be a make the numbers up exercise.

Through Easter and May we have a lot of games against our near rivals, so we should get a better idea where we're really at during that period.
Easter will be tough, because we have 2 challenging games while Hull and Catalans other game is London.

Love to see it I know it is in the past but 1979/1980 we were bloody crap, but went to Wembley and won so you never know

If I came across like I was picking on you then I apologise pal, it's just that it can get like Groundhog Day on here after we have a win.

I agree with Voltaire, there is something seriously wrong with the competition when finishing 8th can be seen as any measure of success.

After this season making the top 8 will be more important than ever - failure to do so puts you in the middle 8 mini league and a battle for Super League survival.

Probably in time those making the top 8 will be viewed as the only 100% bona fide Super League clubs.

So I don't think we should turn up our noses too much at 'only' making the top 8. Personally I take a little bit of satisfaction that we have achieved this 5 years out of 7 it gives us a little bit of status beyond the annual strugglers. Though I accept it's not going to bring fans flocking in and we do need to have loftier ambitions.

I think we probably will get there again but I wouldn't stake my mortgage on it. We are currently 10th and there are no more than 3 or 4 teams we could realistically have a chance of overtaking.

I think things do look much more encouraging now than 2 or 3 weeks back. Keating has proved that he does have plenty to offer and the forwards have shown a bit of the menace we were hoping for. We will need to see how they get on in the forthcoming games against Warrington, Hull & Catalans we will know better after that.

There are at least 11 decent teams this year so it's difficult but I do think that our low point for the season is behind us.

I'm not getting carried away Stan but after Sunday it has made me take notice of the nrl more just to see who are the probable teams we will be playing in the wcc next season

It will all get very interesting...

What will?