Just take a look at leigh centurians fixtures from 2016 and you will see that they lost the opening fixture to batley then went on to thump Oldham then just edge london at home by 4 pts they then drew away at Bradford and followed that fixture with 8 point winning margins at home to Sheffield and away at Halifax, if you follow their fixtures throughout the season they found themselves in tight fixtures and fair enough they tonked a few teams but look how they breezed through the "8"s , so some of the gloom from us (me included) may be unwarranted and disrespectful of this division, just a thought.

Your observation is a timely one for me at least. Its easy to say Rovers should be hammering all and sundry but as we are seeing Championship clubs are no mugs. They are battle-hardened and want Rovers scalp. I actually see this as a positive because it will hopefully keep Rovers honest throughout the season.

Let's start with a revenge killing this weekend against Oldham Roughyeds!

Ref for us Gareth newer, he has being also super league ref, so may help speed PTB, and he hates holding down etc weather will play huge part but expect tough game

For me this is an accurate and realistic perspective

This was us through 2015. Big SL club coming down. Huge payday for the Champ clubs. And an opportunity to knock you off your perch! A lot of the Champ teams will be tough to beat as we found out as did London. You will too. Trick is to keep going and then reinforce the team for the 8's. Something we failed to do really. Even tougher this year though with the emergence of Toulouse and the grit or Rochdale, neither Workington or Whitehaven had that last season.