I would push for 3 wins, not easy and you need some luck but the squads getting bigger and players coming back can step in and do a job.


Just out of interest would a top 5 finish and a play off win be better for the club than another semi, from the point of attracting new/more fans. I know both may be asking too much

Look at this season and you could have your answer. A well contested top 5 spot and a playoff win will certainly keep the interest alive over the regular season and beyond, and may just make people realise what they've been missing out on, whereas a semi final (defeat) may seem just a bit of hot air. A semi final win, on the other hand, with any team other than Saints to play in the final might be just the ticket.

When you consider that our success this season has thus far been based on 2 factors

a) our ability to play a disciplined and relatively error free brand of rugby, build pressure and score from attacking kicks and
b) having the good fortune that many of our opponants have been in poor form

I think it is most unlikely that we will sustain these over long periods. A few dropped balls, penalties conceded in many of our fixtures could and may easily have reversed the results. We have not demonstrated the type of rugby that suggests we will go on very lengthy winning runs (allbeit 7 from 10 is great).

Hope I'm wrong but I think we are in a slightly false position.

I don't think we are in a false position,
the only side that we fail to score a try against was leeds, the other two losses we managed three tries in each and the lowest win was against wigan scoring two, that in its self say we have an attacking side, defensively we have only once allowed more than 22 against us and that was after the trauma of losing Leon Walker, by far this must be the best team effort ever,
going on preseason predictions by the cynical pundits we might of well shut up shop.
as for getting the run of the luck, I believe you make your own luck through pure graft

on reflection snowie I agree with you, we are not in a false position - we have earned our position. I guess I simply feel that the formular for our success is a fragile one with a small margin of error. One or 2 penalties or dropped balls and it can all go wrong.

As such I don't think we will maintain the 70% success rate that we have enjoyed in the first third of the season.

but we have some talented players coming back as other teams are now suffering what we had lack of players, next three games wigan x 2, and bradford in another year would be daunting, not now bring them on

your right of course and I'm leaning towards your optimism. This is the first real occasion in 30 years that I go to games and both my heart and my head tell me we have a great chance of winning.

dont you think we should let the guys play on game at a time.

Always the case and we could quite easily suffer at some point but confidence is up and the lady luck is staying with us for now.

I don't think many will get carried away, we've all been around too long for that

i fear people are getting carried away already. No harm in getting hopeful, as long as people can be reasonable when the tough spell occurs.

For one, Wigan have improved over the last few weeks despite the efforts of Noble.

Carried away...no way. I'd settle now for Wembley and the Grand Final

I say take each game as it comes, It is no use getting carried away, wigan and the Wildcats will be looking at this Sundays game as a yard stick, Wigan to see how much they have improved over last few weeks, and Wakefield to see if they can string a few wins together, but all in all this Sundays game is going to be a cracker

Yep, that will be interesting when it happens and it will at some point.

I will take the rough with the smooth but i'm sure some will not be able to do so.

not thinking about next 3 games, only 1 matters...the next one

Here here!!!!
Good call old bean, you'll do for me!!!

You only have to hark back to last season to see the ones who will start calling for Kear to go should the club return a 10 match winless streak. They will disguise their fickleness as ambition, but it will still happen.

Despite following Wakey for over 40 years I'm still ever the optimist. Whilst others pre-season were predicting doom and gloom, because of our lack of new signings, I was extolling virtues of having a settled squad



Whilst our next game could always be a defeat why, as some seem to be predicting, is it inevitable that we are going to have a slump in form



We have the squad, the coach, the desire, motivation and enthusiasm that is the envy of the majority of teams in SL.

Let's enjoy the moment and show the team we believe in them with our support

I agree, but it is just the way sport seems to go. Whoever loses the league game will be pumped up in the cup for revenge. It's like the Grand Final play-off when both top teams get through to the final. The one that wins the first eliminator loses the Grand Final, because each is good enough to beat the other but too close to one another to win both on the trot. Would love nothing more than to have done a treble over Wigan by mid-May.

You've got to imagine that John Kear will have cut out and kept Noble referring to us as Dewsbury Celtic from the earlier game at the JJB for motivation for the cup!

If we can continue to play as we are with enthusiasm, desire and patience at times than i see no reason why we can't continue to put ourselves in a position to win any given game.

I'll treat the next three games same as 10 of our last 11. I'll expect us to lose but go home happy when we don't. The game v Leigh was one where I thought we might battle for a draw.

We can win the next 3 because we will wanna kept on the winning run and keep up the morale in the dressing room

Interesting article in YEP from John Kear about consistency and team structures and systems, and why Frank hasn't played yet. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/w ... 5188006.jp

Interesting article in YEP from John Kear about consistency and team structures and systems, and why Frank hasn't played yet. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/w ... 5188006.jp

Quote ="IngsRoader"Interesting article in YEP from John Kear about consistency and team structures and systems, and why Frank hasn't played yet. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/w ... 5188006.jp'" The more you read or here JK the more confident I am that we are heading in the right direction.

Quote ="IngsRoader"Interesting article in YEP from John Kear about consistency and team structures and systems, and why Frank hasn't played yet. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/w ... 5188006.jp'" The more you read or here JK the more confident I am that we are heading in the right direction.

First game up Wigan Sunday, lets get as many people down as poss, lets let the team know we are right behind them,

C'MON YOU WILDCATSSSS...!!!!