Too much is made is Smith to be honest. Last two weeks he has been there and they have looked poop. For me, depends on London results, because I think Hull KR are the worst of the teams down there. But do see exactly what you are saying in the Huddersfield point.

It's amazing what a win and a few signings due for confidence. If we lose today, there is pressure on us, especially in the head to heads. Now with that win, the reality is that we just need to win the results of hudds, London or kr to be safe. Sounds pretty easy over 9 games. Really it's going to be tough, but a couple of results in the spin and you find yourself out of the dog right as Wigan have done

Aside from us, i fear for Huddersfield. They haven't been down here all season, so are not battle hardened. Leeds, London and kr have made changes and form is on the up. I'm not sure giants have got rock bottom yet

A very big win this weekend for the Wildcats because if they had lost then they would have been in the dog fight big time,but they now have a 4 point cushion over the bottom 4 which should be enough as I cant see all (or any) of the bottom 4 winning 3 more games than the Wildcats

I still have London to be bottom which would be a shame for the competition as they have been great this year and have already exceeded all expectations and have not spent anywhere close to the budgets of the sides that they are competing against in SL

You have to be kidding? With a host of injured players now back and key signings like Parcell I'd say Rovers look far stronger than London.

Already under Smith Rovers have beaten 2nd placed Warrington and then 3rd placed Hull and you say that is poop.

Rovers look more energised and in much better shape under Smith. Rovers haven't had a full back or hooker all season and often have had just one prop forward available. Now with Quinlan back, Parcell signed up and prop forwards recruited to support the excellent Garbutt & Masoe things look much better.

I'd agree that anything is still possible but without the unexpected Tony Smith inspired wins against Wire & Hull ...Rovers would be 4 points adrift so Tony Smith has already had a huge impact.

No, I said you played poop, and looked poop. The fact you got two lucky results has nothing to do with it, congratulations on that.

If we can win the next two, we could well be 4 points clear of London and HKR with a much better points difference, and only 7 games left for them to win 3 more than Leeds do.

Big fortnight coming up...

Hey honestly the atmosphere, belief and performance at Hull KR has been transformed by the energy of Tony Smith.

Don’t feed him, he’s one of the most deluded, most bitter fans on here.

The goal now must be to put clear water between us and the other three . It's going to be very tense

The win against Catalans, Martin signing and run of home games should be enough to keep us up you would think.

Huddersfield and London looking patchy at the wrong time.

However there are more wins in the bottom sides and there will be more twists and turns yet.

Whilst a run of wins is obviously what we need we need to be realistic, us and the other three are on a relegation dog fight because we haven't been able to string results together.

I don't see us going on a winning run but we have enough winnable games left to pick up at least 8 points. I see us winning one losing one and so on but that should be enough to see us clear but it will be pretty close.

I see why people are tipping Hudds but I just think London's renaissance hit a wall yesterday and I think they may have given everything they have now. I fear for them.

Thing is London could go down with heads held high and reputations of players and coaches enhanced. Not saying it would be a good thing but it would be the least bad outcome if they were relegated IMO.

They don’t necessarily have the capability to start signing NRL players to bolster their squad either.

On paper Leeds are starting to look something like.

I also think the crowd at Emerald has a part to play with this run of home games.

Yes the home crowd will play a big part. Need to cheer the boys all the way

Agree and if they play like they did yesterday, less mistakes and better atta king moves they will be well supported. If you want the crowd to cheer you do have to give them something to cheer about.

Leeds should be ok now. 6 out of the 9 left are home games.
We have games against London, Hull KR, Salford and Hudds which they should win in my opinion plus a couple others.

While relegation is always a worry if you’re down there, I reckon you’ll end up finishing above Catalans never mind the other three teams down there on 14 points with you.

Very fair comment.

Having games against our relegation rivals is only a positive if we win the games. London, Hull kr and Huddersfield are all massive games, win all 3 and we are safe, win 2 we should be ok, win 1 we are in danger, lose all 3 we will be relegated.

In comes Jobs comforter

RD 21 - SAL v HUD, LON v WAR, CAS v LEE, WIG v HKR
RD 22 - HUD v CAT, HFC v LON, LEE v HKR
RD 23 - HKR v HUD, LON v STH, LEE v HFC
RD 24 - HUD v LEE, LON v SAL, HKR v CAS
RD 25 - SAL v HUD, CAS v LON, LEE v CAT, WIG v HKR
RD 26 - HUD v CAS, CAT v LON, LEE v STH, WAK v HKR
RD 27 - HFC v HUD, LON v LEE, CAT v HKR
RD 28 - STH v HUD, HKR v LON, LEE v SAL
RD 29 - HUD v CAT, WAK v LON, LEE v WAR, SAL v HKR

What are we thinking then? Everyone has a very tough run in over the rest of the season.

That's hurt my eyes and made my brain freeze.

Cas away Fri. Let's worry about that instead of who London play in round 26.

And I hope the team are thinking the same, basically we need to try and win every game and concentrate on it week by week, its simple, win more games than we lose in the last 9, Agar is correct its in their own hands, FWIW I think we will stay up as long as we keep defending like we have, there was a couple of tomes on Friday where cats were on our line and we kept them out, that wouldn’t have happened even a few weeks ago

Mcd used to have a good system where the squad focused on four game blocks. Anything longer than that just has too many variables.

There is 4 points minimum for us over the next four games.

Crazy thing is if (and I’m not saying we will) but if we won the next 4 games, and other results go our way, we could actually be looking at targeting the top 5 - again I don’t think we will.