The middle 8's should start here !! : Wed Apr 26, 2017 4:38 am
If we have learnt anything from last year and watching what the other teams did we need to be planning our strategy as top 8 is a pipe dream.We need to target 9th place thus getting four home games unlike last year.
In a nutshell to do this we should be targeting a number of games to get the points and making sure that most of our better players are fit and available for selection.
These are Widnes (h) Leigh (h) St Helens (h) Warrington (h) Catalans (millennium) plus the competition has a habit of throwing up the odd freak result and I think we need 16/18 pts to make 9th.
Any plans to spend the Brierley money need to happen before the middle 8's and we should not be playing and risking our 'crocks' in games that on current form are
unwinnable.
No guarantees of any of this working but hopefully Swinton have set off the alarm bells and we won't risk too weak a team in the middle 8's.
Also if we lose the next two which is highly likely then Mr Stone's position becomes untenable and we should have his replacement in to at least build up some moral and structure.
Some games will be hard to watch with this strategy but needs must !!