The end of the season is nigh and despite the recent results we are still in with a minor shout for the playoffs , here are the remaining fixtures for the positions from 3 to 9 , how do we see it panning out ?

Bradford vs featherstone
Bradford vs York
London vs Bradford
Sheffield vs Bradford

Sheffield vs London
Sheffield vs Keighley
Widnes vs Sheffield
Sheffield vs Bradford

Sheffield vs London
London vs Widnes
London vs Bradford
London vs Keighley

Widnes vs Batley
Batley vs Whitehaven
York vs Batley
Batley vs Newcastle

Widnes vs Batley
London vs Widnes
Widnes vs Sheffield
Featherstone vs Widnes

Whitehaven vs Halifax
Halifax vs Toulouse
Keighley vs Halifax
Halifax vs Swinton

York vs Swinton
Bradford vs York
York vs Batley
Barrow vs York

I predict they'll finish thus:

3rd - Sheffield - 34 points
4th - London - 32
5th - Super Fax - 31
6th - Bullies - 31
7th - Batley - 30
8th - Widnes - 28
9th - York - 28

That means winning all our last 4, we've only done 4 on the trot once all season (which included the Bulls cup game). We do have the easiest run in, assuming TLoos put their cue back in the rack - if they win away to Newcastle and Bulls lose at home to Fev this week, they will be guaranteed 2nd. To be honest, I don't have much confidence in us getting a win at Haven.

I think that it will come down to us and Batley for the final spot. And we will need to win all our remaining games to sneak in.

Still not an impossibility but on form a distinct improbability.
Going up to Keswick for a week and will take in the Haven game where anything could happen.

What would be everyone's team for sunday, we should be close to full strength mine would be.

Woody
Salty
Crooks
Maizen
Walmsley
Louis
Keyes
Fleming
O Brian
Calcott
Kav
Gee
Fairbank

Tangata
Lannon
Ben foster
Ingham

I am not putting all the blame on Sutcliffe for the 3 tries we conceded down our left side, he just didn't seem to carry the ball with much purpose and missed some what i would call soft tackles. And i would like to see if Foster could bring some energy and intent to our pack. Also Tom ingham should be brought in for Moore this would give us some energy and more threat out of acting half.

In the main would agree.Know nothing about Forster so would try Sutcliffe in forwards as he was apparently great there in France.Need to know now what he brings and whether theres anything more to come from fleming.Pretty tough on Pickers to get castigated for a very difficult dead ball call but id agree with JWH.Maybe try hammering the ball towards the touchline would be a better dropout option that dollying it in the air as with 80% of our general kicking game.We tried one thing different last week and it came off..

Not sure if maizen is fit has he was walking around with a boot on , on Sunday but certainly think he’s walmsley best centre partner . I understand why sutcliffe was played at centre but it didn’t work so would put him on the bench . I actually think maizen is a winger and would switch salty to centre and play maizen on the wing .

Spot on!

NFL style analytics are coming more and more in to our game and we will see a lot more of it at our level over the next couple of years and this is one area where it will stand out. Teams are willing to give up field position from a drop out to try and have a contested restart and knowing that even if they don't get the ball back your goal line is the easiest place to defend on the pitch other than inside the opponents 10m. The question at our level is if there are the skill levels to support it.

Back on topic I reckon a loss to Haven, a win against Toulouse followed by a loss to Keighley. Its now very much win all 4 and we will make the playoffs, win 3 and its very unlikely and then any less and its the worst finish since Marshall left and the 2nd worst finish since after maybe the 2004 season.

Ryan King and Guy Graham, Haven's 2 best forwards, will be missing on Sunday so if Fax cannot come away with a win when a win is an absolute must then we don't deserve to finish in the top 6.

Hopefully Keyes will have brushed off the cobwebs, so I'm going for a 3 to 4 score win.

Oh well at least you’ll be happy .

No-one will be happy if we fail to make play offs..but to quote Grix weekly,'it is what it is' without being able to address it.

Yes hopefully.King out through gentleman's agreement ? a non-binding issue that i'm not a fan of..i'd rather he played as we're well versed in his weakness's..

I think King is injured (he missed Haven's match at London). Having said that, I'm assuming he's not "allowed" to play as per his transfer agreement (he didn't play at the Shay) but is such an agreement binding especially when Haven will be so desperate.

I remember a similar situation a few years ago when Fax included Sam Barlow against Sheffield which was a bit naughty, and is probably why Mark "Moaning" Aston has hated Fax ever since.

Yes I was alluding to that..once they've left they've left it's almost a restraint of trade..

A lot of posters on here are more interested in being’ right ‘ than the club being successful. Gfb will be celebrating our failure like the women who have divorce parties .

I'm happy he isn't playing as he would no doubt have had a stormer. But how would we know his weaknesses? He hardly got a game for us.

Why would he? GFB is a staunch, long time suporter of the club.

Perhaps he is but I’m a glass half full guy and would like to remain positive regardless of this season’s inconsistency. I think we best haven btw .

Was tongue in cheek..but you've answered it anyway.The fact he didnt start the season and was later dropped when he did,suggests perceived weakness that the coaching staff were aware of.

But a bit mischevious or confused at times....he now apparantly works with me and the woman who got abused at the Fev game,which is news to us...

Ryan King went off injured towards the end of the game against Barrow a couple of weeks back I watched it on the Viaplay freebie, looked in a bit of pain round the upper leg / hip area and don’t really care if he plays or not, just hope it’s not too serious for the bloke.

People talking about Ryan King and his weakness’ , surely the Fax coaching team would have known all about them had they done due diligence before signing him, Further to that they seemingly failed to address those weakness when coaching/ training, therefore he left with some saying he was over rated, uncoachable, all round bad egg. Now Fax are scared he will play against them! Once again some fickle fans on here

He left because he missed his girlfriend and the constant commute was effecting his training, the rest is made up by the false narrative crew who have an agenda against Grix and for some reason find it impossible to remain objective when giving an ‘ opinion’