Who would you take? : Wed Nov 12, 2014 4:21 pm  

If you were able to take 4 teams to play at the end of the season in the play off from the Super League, who would yours be?

For me it would be:

Hull Kr
Salford
Wakefield
and
Widnes?

Also, who do you think the bottom 4 WILL be?

For me its:
HULL FC
SALFORD
WAKEFIELD
CATALAN

[Bulliac]

Re: Who would you take? : Wed Nov 12, 2014 4:41 pm  

Definitely hoping for Catalan away. I'm keeping some of my holiday money specially for the occasion. The away game in Perpignan is one of the biggest things I'll miss from SL, so my fingers are crossed.

Re: Who would you take? : Wed Nov 12, 2014 5:45 pm  

Can't see it being Catalan with then signing Carney.

I think bottom 4 will be Wakey, Hull KR, Widnes, Cas

Re: Who would you take? : Wed Nov 12, 2014 6:00 pm  

Obviously this is based on the squads as they stand, accepting that some clubs will be strengthening further before February.

However, having said that I think the bottom 4 will be, in order

Widnes
Hull FC
Wakefield
Hull KR

Widnes will cruise through the middle 8s comfortably beating any Championship side.

Hull FC have a bit of quality but look short of senior players in the middle. Even so, barring serious injury crisis will come through the 8s in my view as it's a tough ask to go to the KC and win.

Wakefield look hardworking with decent depth, a coach who seems to have galvanised them.

Right now Hull KR look very vulnerable. Massive turnover of players including 1,6,7,9 with no new 1 and 9 signed as of pre-season training, rookie coach, light in every dept and just signed Ryan Bailey.

Re: Who would you take? : Thu Nov 13, 2014 4:30 pm  

M@islebugs wrote:

Obviously this is based on the squads as they stand, accepting that some clubs will be strengthening further before February.

However, having said that I think the bottom 4 will be, in order

Widnes
Hull FC
Wakefield
Hull KR

Widnes will cruise through the middle 8s comfortably beating any Championship side.

Hull FC have a bit of quality but look short of senior players in the middle. Even so, barring serious injury crisis will come through the 8s in my view as it's a tough ask to go to the KC and win.

Wakefield look hardworking with decent depth, a coach who seems to have galvanised them.

Right now Hull KR look very vulnerable. Massive turnover of players including 1,6,7,9 with no new 1 and 9 signed as of pre-season training, rookie coach, light in every dept and just signed Ryan Bailey.

Learn your history.........Widnes never beat Leigh.

Re: Who would you take? : Thu Nov 13, 2014 4:41 pm  

Any team that finishes in the bottom 4 - especially the bottom two are going to be beatable by a team who can hit their straps on that one day. We don't need to beat them all - just the other championship teams and possibly one SL team if that team also loses to the other SL teams and us. That will give that team about 6 points when we have at about 8 points.

Re: Who would you take? : Fri Nov 14, 2014 2:28 pm  

I really can't see Salford being anywhere near the bottom four. Their starting team is a match for any in the competition.

Re: Who would you take? : Fri Nov 14, 2014 3:36 pm  

woolly07 wrote:

Any team that finishes in the bottom 4 - especially the bottom two are going to be beatable by a team who can hit their straps on that one day. We don't need to beat them all - just the other championship teams and possibly one SL team if that team also loses to the other SL teams and us. That will give that team about 6 points when we have at about 8 points.

But that only means we finish 4th in mini league and they finish 5th. We'd still need to beat them again in playoff match.

[Bulliac]

Re: Who would you take? : Fri Nov 14, 2014 4:01 pm  

Yeah, one way or the other we'd need to win two middle 8 games against SL opposition and, of course, beat all the other championship clubs too.

Re: Who would you take? : Sun Nov 16, 2014 9:13 am  

7 weeks of 4 matches with 2 points available = max of 56 points up for grabs. 5 wins gets 10 points. That should be good enough for third and automatic. four wins should be good enough for the £1m game, possibly even less if the top two sides total 26 points, thats nearly half the points gone already.

The numbers are easy, the points - given that its like 7 cup games - rather more difficult!