...we'll go up.

There, I've said it.

And I don't think we'll even need the Million Pound Game.

We won't make the Middle 8's, and we certainly won't go up.

You may well be correct, but I'll have a pint of what he's on......

It must be strong stuff, I don't think I'd risk more than a thimbleful meself

If we made the 8's I wouldn't be surprised to see us finish ahead of the other Championship clubs. The SL clubs will be a lot more aware of the threat Leigh pose after their league performances throughout the year. I genuinely believe this squad is capable of so much more than they have shown this year.

Sadly I suspect we have left it too late and will probably miss out on a spot by a point. So many matches thrown away or where we'd probably have won with a competent halfback at the club. We likely need Fev to beat both Batley and Fax and then we'd need to go to their place and beat them, looks a very long shot.

Points won from the teams currently in the Top 4 in 2016:
Leigh 1/6
London 2/4
Batley 3/4
Halifax 0/4

Total 6/18

That in itself tells a story, we certainly don't deserve to make the top 4. Not quite sure where the blame lies, probably fairly equally between the players and our failure to sign a scrum half.

Fans have done their bit once again, despite some pretty awful rugby at times. Miss out on the top 4 though and you can forget membership sales next season on the scale that we have seen for the last couple of years.

I rarely post on here but read the forum all the time. I've been to the terrible defeats this year (Dews/Halifax/Sheffield etc) and wrote our chances off completely after the Halifax game. I do not think for one minute we will make the top 4 and since the signings of Moss/Chisholm/Keyes and the rumblings about Pryce coming back, I have started looking forward to next season and almost forgotten about this year/written it off.

However, a similar bizarre thought came to me randomly at work the other day and I thought I would share it. An image of the Bulls players celebrating a victory against Leigh in the 8's and the fans chanting "win when it matters, we only win when it matters, win when it maaaaattters".

Odd.

Back to reality: Halifax or Batley will lose two matches, we will win against Oldham and Whitehaven and need only to beat/draw with Fev in the last game of the season to get into the top 4. We are leading by 4 points with 3 mins to go and are camped deep in the Fev half. We put in a high shot and gift them a penalty which takes them right into our half. We concede a try right in the corner, with 1 min to go. Our entire season rides on the kick. Their kicker went off injured in the first half so a prop forward steps up to take the kick. He converts, sending the Fev fans into raptures and we are back out of the top 4.

Seems quite a likely scenario

We'll smash it.

This.

My current feeling is that we won't make it, but if we do, we'll have some momentum and a couple of big SL rivals to raise our game against. There's just something about the squad that makes me feel if they pull it all together at the same time, they can do something special.

I just hope that come the end of September, I am being lauded as a prescient genius.

It will depend on Leigh v Fax this weekend imo. On the subject of our chances, Leigh, I feel we are far stronger this season and only hitting form when we need to. As fans we have no idea how we will play, we don't know our best half back pairing and you can pool any 2 from 4 very good ones at present. What I do know is that when we get pace on the game we look very good.
You should be looking at a very interesting 3 weeks coming up.

Agree, Rohan had come in and brought some quality in key positions thats we've been lacking in all year
Think he's been unlucky with some of the injuries he's had (Gaskell, Purtell, Ferguson, Clark, Clough) throw in the players attitude for Dewsbury and Fax and it's a case of what might have been.

IF we do make it, I fully agree we've a great shot of being in that MPG with all the key players returning.

Just hoping Batley or Fax slip up. If both win this weekend then it's all over.

Despite what Maurice says I can't see Leigh losing to Fax - hope they've got Joe Cobb with the whistle.........

Robert Hicks

The thing is, I don't think either Leigh or London's coaching staff have Lowes "certain games don't matter" attitude so I wouldn't expect too much of a let up in their intensity going towards the end of the regular season

Funnily enough from our games again those 3 above us there, we are 0/8. Hoping that changes to 2/10 on Sunday

Think Jamie Soward could have a big effect. Has the ability to win games on his own (particularly at this level) will lift all the London players as well.

Well that's what im hoping for anyways!

When does he arrive though?

He says he's arriving this week and make his debut next week.

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Seriously though, I don't even expect Leigh to go up, the very best any Championship Club in the MPG can hope for is a dysfunctional SL team playing poorly while the Championship team plays well above itself, only then is there a glimmer of hope.

& should Leigh win the MPG ....

I will dance butt naked in Woolworths window.

Ste there are NO Woolworths anymore.

What device would they need Ste?

Of course, if by some miracle we DID make the 8s, nothing would better prove that the comp is a total and utter shambles.

Because we would have fixtures, including a possible MPG, in theory, against Huddersfield. Even a saint with blind belief in the perfection of human nature would know that we COULD NOT now play Gaskell, Ferguson or Clough in any of those fixtures. I mean, can you image how conflicted those players would be if in the MPG they could consign their new employers, and themselves, to the Championship?

Could a threatened SL club indeed deliberately go on a buying mission to Championship rivals, to spike the opposition in Championship games? Certainly, clubs and their owners have got up to much worse to try to ensure SL status, and this, unlike the other shenanigans would of course be 100% legal.

Total joke. Luckily for the RFL, it almost certainly won't happen THIS year with us, but that doesn't change the truth of the point.

Well, in your scenario their SL contracts would be voided and they would [I guess be rewarded with new deals at the newly promoted SL club....errrm, us!

It's deal where the players, at least, are on a sale or return no loss deal.