Nathan as stated he feels we are in a better position than we were last season to take on the play off's, I tend to agree with him.

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With Raliegh and Patrick back, we can't have many injured, infact I can only think of Lolesi - is he fit?

If so have we the entire first team squad available, other than Mason being 'rested' as such.

We have some good form coming in the run in, and a guaranteed home tie in the first knock out round, probably Cas or Crusaders, and if not them then we'd have HKR. Crikey I feel confident of getting past any of them.

How far do we think we can get, I think a semi is a realistic goal and if we do get there, then you never know what else the future will bring.

Yeah, end of last season we were knackered, players out injured all over the place, no form to speak off, just lost the CC final so still hurting from that.

Totally opposite this season, no CC headaches, plenty of players in contention, good form, good momentum.

Could be looking good this season for a decent end of season

Your biggest enemy will be complacency.

You battered us at a canter yesterday and may well be able to do the same against les Cats next week.

Whilst that would help to boost players' confidence it wouldn't have the intensity necessary to properly prepare for a tough playoff game.

i think we are, we are definitely in a better position than we were 12 months ago .
Yesterday we saw the team almost going through the motions in the 2nd half where i think we could have easily rattled up a huge score if we had put everything into it, obviously we were saving some back.

Its ok getting good form going into the play-offs only to play e in the 1st game

We have a strong squad at the moment and it will be very interesting to see what Nathan Brown's strongest seventeen will be with everyone fit.

Next week i would put Griffin back for Finnigan and then if we get past the first round ot the play off's Mason would come back for either Raleigh or Horne.
I think that seventeen is very strong and has a good chance in the play offs if it plays to it's potential and maybe gets the odd bit of luck along the way.

catalans is a good chance to try a few thing out and get ready for the playoffs its been good to get salford and catalans last 2 games it gives players like fa'alogo chance to get match fit again hes going to be huge for us in the playoffs every game hes played this season hes been fantastic in if him and eorl hadnt limped off against saints i dare say we could have won that game

to be honest a few off field incidents early in the season held us back shame really but its all come good now bring on the playoffs we can beat anyone on any given day

Don't the second team have a game this weekend? We could use that as one of Masons "banned" games, then he would be available for the first play off game? Or has that loophole now been closed?

Huddersfield are looking seriously good at just the right time of the season. Which ever one of the top 4 loses in the first week and has to play huddersfield the following week will not be looking forward to it. As a wire fan i really don't want it to be us.

There is a very small chance we could take 4th spot still

And as long as we win in Perpignan, we will take 5th!

There's no chance of us making 4th. Leeds are 2 points ahead of us and Hull are one point. Whatever happens on the last weekend, one of those two will finish at least 1 point ahead of us even if we win against Catalan.

Erm how can we make 4th??? even with a draw we can't mathematically make itas either Hull or Leeds will still be a least 1 point ahead!

As for 5th yeah what ever happens in the Hull Leeds game we win in Perpignan we're 5th!

I guess Codey was looking at the table and not taking into consideration that Leeds & Hull FC are playing each other.

Yeah my mistake, I misread Leeds points

Still, 5th is no mean feat given our mid season wobble. Who do we want to finish above, Leeds or Hull?

We want Hull to be in 4th.

Then if they lose to Wigan our second game would be away to Hull.

So Cas or Crusaders Home

Hull away

Then semi final based on clubcall

But Leeds might beat Wigan. Then we would be away to Wigan - and we all know what happens there!

Indeed; they let us win and we put up with the ABP's and fishsta's of this world with their "unbiased"™* offerings as to why we're so bad and how they can roll over and sh*t mars bars followed by stuff about how Wigan are a big club and that they should win because they won the league x years in a row y years ago etc etc etc blah blah blah shpeel.

* for "unbiased" please replace with "so biased and simple they are unable to see the wood for the trees when it has a cherry & white shirt on and will spend literally hours making shows of themselves in PM. (three guesses!)

I dont fear anyone, the claret and gold machine is ready to roll!

we are deffo in a better position with a much stronger squad i think we will get to the semis n maybe lose but i think we will beat catalan i think it will be a good test i know catalan havent had a good season but they always give u a physical test in france which our players will need as salford wasnt much of one i can see us finish 5th tho beating cas / crusaders. we have the quality to get to the grand final we just need the mental strength which we havent had in recent years

We have the ability and quality to go all the way IMO. The only question is mental strength. When we got to Wembley the occasion got to the players(rabbits in headlights). This time we've got a few more players with big match experience i.e Gilmour and Fa'alogo with the rest of the squad better prepared for big games after last years Wembley experience. Nathan seems to have timed our run up to the play offs perfectly but I suppose only time will tell.