It's a pretty open competition. Catalan, Saints, Huddersfield, Cas, Leeds, Wigan, Warrington. With the new league set up meaning teams can't afford to throw games it will be interesting to see how that shapes up. In previous years you may have rested injured players one week more as 4th or 5th was no biggie.
Now one will want to miss the cut, so getting into the 8 is key, but once in the 8, you don't want the difference between you and the top 4 being too large to make up in the final 7 games.
A few key injuries here and there will knock some teams off their stride. Saints are fortunate that we have a balanced side this year for the first time in ages. The big talking point is about having 1 more pack player for Saints. But from 1-7 we are well covered and it's nice if there is an injury to have quality like Lance and Wellens as back up.
The pack is younger looking, no real old stagers, but injuries to Mose/Amor and Walmsley at the same time would be tricky to handle. We have the numbers but maybe a stretch too far for any team to lose 3 props in this competition.
