St Helens (A), Catalans (H), Warrington (A)

We have it easier than most this easter given we have a 5 day turn around compared to Warrington who will only have 4 so we get the extra day break.

St Helens have only conceded 120 points compared to our 238 so I will favour them given the fact they are at home and both our attacks seem to be very similar. Our defence is much worse.

Catalans is the game I feel we could win as they seem to be just as much of a shambles as us and at home we should be looking to beat them.

Warrington have Leeds at home and Widnes away and I feel they will win at least 1 of those games and will be favourites especially with them at home and getting players back fully fit such as Ratchford, Hill etc.

Easter is either going to be make or break for us, we are either going to be fighting for top 8 or sat at the very bottom of the table and if we end up there I think that is where we will stay - Im trying to stay optimistic but I know the more likely outcome!

Will Mamo finally make his debut? Given the fact were so crap there is no point rushing him back if hes not fit but Catalans/Warrington seems the more logical ones to me or will he be left till after easter completely?

Will Ollie Roberts be back for the Saints game?

Will Nathan Mason be back for the easter games, Wakeman needs dropping!

Will Tom Symonds be back for the easter games?

Will we get any news whatsoever on Adam O Brien???

We need to get Taai back to prop as soon as Symonds is back, he is wasted doing long minutes in the 2nd row.

Given we have decent time between the games I hope first of all we pick our strongest possible team for each games.
Saints away.....they haven't really impressed and think IF our lot repeat the Wigan game commitment and defensive line speed a win is possible, the question is will we? Seems too much like hard work to be consistent for the Giants.
Catalan home.....This HAS to be a win....they are poor away but will be a danger to us because they offload but whatever the result at Saints this has to be a must win game.
Warrington away....with their form so far this could be a close run thing...they have players coming back hopefully we will have Symonds back but they have shorter turn round and what will be tough games.
Overall I think we will end up with one win, but if we are really committed and controlled with the ball we could get more.
Time for some soul searching for both players and coaches and time to show some spirit and fight to make things happen.
I reckon we need about 7 more wins to get into the top 8....that's more or less down to a win every other game..............

I honestly like the optimism still around the fans. I'll continue to have hope but I can't see anything but 3 losses. Even if we get a win or even 2, we'll be in the bottom 4 come the split.
I sound uninspiring and negative I know.. but that just matches what we are doing on the pitch.
I know for a fact we are capable of turning it around. We have too many good players. We just need to believe it, and quick.

We will finish bottom 4 because there is not 4 teams worse than us. Our defence is the worst in the league by a mile.

We will either finish 11th or 12th in the table.

My prediction is

1. Cas
1. Hull
3. Wigan
4. Leeds
5. Salford
6. St. Helens
7. Wakefield
8. Warrington
9. Leigh
10. Catalans
11. Giants
12. Widnes

GF winners: Wigan
Challenge Cup winners: Wigan

Playing St Helens at the wrong time possibly,now they have Matt Smith back moving them around the park.Took a huge defensive effort from Salford to stop them last round.

Catalans without Bird look rudderless,and could be there for the taking if he's not back.

Warrington have too many decent players to be bottom of the pile for too long you would think.Put too much focus on the World challenge?

As RS did state on Friday, 'we need some blokes back to get us out of this mess',will we ever see Mamo? heard he's an absolute definite for round 23

Bruno is a big miss for his defence he makes the tackles that others can't manage to make,and often they are try savers.

Symonds,Nathan Mason? Frustrating long term absence.

Live in hope,as they say - it's not the size of the dog in the fight,it's the size of the fight in the dog blah blah.

Nathan Mason can't be injured now because he started for Oldham today and they beat the Bulls. A good win for them.

Was told next 2 weeks for Nathan at the academy game so maybe this is to start building his match fitness up

Hopefully be back in the frame for the Easter period then. Any news on O Brien and Jake Wardle daz? Thought he'd be back playing for the academy by now?

Saw Jake at the game, he looked to be walking ok, dunno how long he's gonna be out for though.

Jake will be back in about three weeks.

Simpson was there today and didn't look to have his brace on.

Simpson has been back training a while I believe - the Physio put a photo of him doing squats a few weeks ago.

Will need to and should approach these 3 games not expecting but rather striving to win all 3 otherwise what is the point?

We can't be as bad as we were at Cas - can we? The players all said they did not want to face the Middle 8's again - well now is the time to start to turn our season around then.

Saints away the hardest on paper - how sweet the taste of victory would be!