The problem is that we need to pull successive big performances out of the bag - something we’ve never been able to do - our last play off win we did it against Saints in 2018 (I had to check twice that it was that long ago!), couldn’t back it up the week after.

We need to put ourselves in a position to not need to pull miracles out of the hat - although that’s much easier said than done!

Q?
Which is worse…

Going down this season then going into 2024 full time for promotion, or staying up this season, struggling once again with relegation with no return in 2025 c/o IMG closing the promotion/relegation gate?

Not sure but he certainly won't in future.

Did you just nick that from a famous Confucius philosophy quote?

I thought this year was the last year for promotion and relegation with 2024 being no relegation as img will be selecting the 12 teams for 2025 anyway.

I was thinking the same, end of 24 it’s decided the League for the following season. My concern is since the last time we had licensing clubs like Wakefield and Castleford took the proverbial pee out of it, basically not bringing the stadiums up to standard . So as long as the standards IMG are fully followed it will be a complete waste of time.