I genuinely think we've got a good chance in July.
Today was 'Widnes day' with the hype and media focus on them being hot favourites etc and the fact they probably didn't want to leave themselves open to the uproar that they weren't let it for 4 month until July.
The RFL could easily have gone down the 'Widnes are the strongest of the 3, they're in' route, but didn't. They dismissed Barrow completely and took time to publically say Halifax had passed the criteria in a short statement.
If we can be in the top 3 come July, and furthermore, if we get 7,500+ and run Bradford close in the Cup I think that would be massive, in fact, if we dared to beat them, the media hype around Halifax would really set us up going into the July decisions.
I've not got a problem with Cas, Wakey or anyone, but I'd certainly be feeling a bit un-eased with some of the 'incomplete' boxes they're going to have to hand in in 5 days time.
It's not over yet.