Re: Anyone believe we can come back? : Wed Jul 23, 2014 12:20 pm
What we need to do to come back up.We will go into a league which will be something like:
Bradford
London
Leigh
Featherstone
Halifax
Doncaster
Dewsbury
Sheffield
Batley
Workington
Whitehaven
York
At the end of the season I'd expect to see Leigh Centurions and Bradford in the top two with the other two from London, Featherstone, Halifax and Sheffield
This will make up the top 4 in the new 8 system
Now if you look at the bottom 4 in the new 8 system I'd expect to see Wakefield and Catalans plus two from Hull KR, Hull FC, Salford and Castleford in there.
So assuming we make it the league would probably be then:
Leigh Centurions
Bradford
London
One of Halifax, Sheffield or Featherstone
Wakefield
Catalans
Hull FC
Hull KR
Now the top 4 would probably be the Super League clubs and assuming the games go to level of quality and we can beat the other Championship clubs the table would be:
Catalans - return to Super League
Hull FC - return to Super League
Hull KR - return to Super League
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Wakefield - play off for a place in Super League
London - play off for a place in Super League
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Bradford
Leigh
Halifax
This would give us a one-off game v Wakefield to come back up.
If we can beat Wakefield in the 8 league we'd probably still get them in the one-off game.
The only way I would see a Championship club coming up is to win probably twice from four games against SL clubs, unless of course there are other underdog winners and it isn't just the SL clubs beating the Championship clubs pretty much every time
I'm not suggesting we will do that in season one with yet another new squad, but I believe it is improbable for any Championship club to beat two SL clubs in four games, but maybe win the one off game
Cheers
Mark