Quote paulwalker71="paulwalker71"Daft as it sounds, we aren't 'out of the play offs', as can be observed by looking a league table
If we win three of our remaining four games, which is not exactly unfeasible as we can beat Hull KR, Crusaders and Wakefield, then we'll be on 24 points. That might just conceivably be enough.
It's unlikely, but against all reasonable sense of what's deserved, we could still make the 8. For that reason alone, you can't expect Mick Potter to come out now and write off the season
Of course, if we lose against HKR then its officially all over
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That's basically correct; all the other teams around us lost and we were already too many points behind in the for and against column to make any difference, so other than another game gone, we remain pretty much the same as far as the mathematics are concerned.
Not sure about mentally though. The team looked mentally 'gone' at the HJ, I [idefinitely [/iwas. It's not the maths, it's looking at that performance and asking yourself exactly where we're going to get the points from, and the answer is "I haven't a clue".
I try to be upbeat and positive but it's hard after games like that. I know we'll almost certainly lose any play-off game we get, I mean, we're not going to win the league or anything, and for sure I didn't think we were ever going to win at Warrington but I did expect us to compete in the main, even if Wire ran away with it in the end.
I'd like to see Royston in the team, if only for the change in attitude he would bring. Just where he would fit into the side I don't know, though there would seem to be a spot at hooker going vacant. And yes, I do realise he not the best defender and defence is a major part of the role, he does though have the ability take on the defence, and that was badly lacking on Sunday. Failing that there is a place on the wing, Paddy didn't look very bothered last week and, to be honest, being bothered is probably the very least we are entitled to expect.
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