Middle 8's : Mon Jun 19, 2017 11:05 am  

Does anyone know how the fixtures are set out? if so should it start this week who would we play and where??

I see Warrington are bringing in Aussies, so are HKR, Catalans a new coach....... things are starting to build

Re: Middle 8's : Mon Jun 19, 2017 11:41 am  

Points are reset as two competitions are combined
You play every team once in the qualifiers - that's seven games
SL09, SL10, CH01 & CH02 have four home games
SL11, SL12, CH03 & CH04 have three home games

So.... if we finish second, as we are now, we will play SL9, SL11, C3 & C4 at home and SL10, SL12 & C1 away.

Here is a handy table...

Re: Middle 8's : Mon Jun 19, 2017 12:26 pm  

SL9, SL11, C3 & C4 at home and SL10, SL12 & C1 away.

Today then that is

Home
Toulouse
Fev
Cats
leigh

Away
HKR
Wire
Widnes

No games in France!

Re: Middle 8's : Mon Jun 19, 2017 12:56 pm  

I feel confident that we will finish second, therefore I can see another trip to France on the cards.
Of the Super League teams, I think Warrington will improve and climb above Catalan, Leigh and Widnes will be the bottom two in that order..
Championship, HKR first, us second. Of the other three who are up for the last two places. Halifax face an up hill task with both Toulouse and Fev away. I think it will be Toulouse third, Fev fourth.
So as I see it Warrington, Leigh, Toulouse and Fev at home. Catalan, Hull KR and Widnes away.
If we play as we have been we do have a chance certainly of the MPG. If not better.
Bring it on.

Re: Middle 8's : Mon Jun 19, 2017 5:02 pm  

So as it stands, we are not going back to France this season.

Sorry this was stalled on my computer.

Re: Middle 8's : Tue Jun 20, 2017 2:14 pm  

Looking at the last few game, Toulouse have fax fev at home and kr away to face, the other couple of games they have they should win, I would not be surprised if they still finish third which I think means we play them at home.
Catalan are a difficult one to call, they have wire saints Wigan and cas, wire and saints who knows personally I don't see em beating cas or Wigan. Only thing is if top 4 is decided you could get Wigan and cas resting players so Catalan could sneak back into top 8 although I reckon they are going to finish maybe 9 or 10 so we could end up going out there, I hope so have missed Perpignan visits.

[brian2]

Re: Middle 8's : Thu Jun 22, 2017 12:12 pm  

When do these games start, is it straight after the season completes?

Re: Middle 8's : Thu Jun 22, 2017 12:48 pm  

Last season if I remember correctly, the season finished on the third weekend of July and we played Leigh the first weekend of August.
Therefore there was a break of one week. I assume the same again this year.

Re: Middle 8's : Thu Jun 22, 2017 1:45 pm  

Gap, due to challenge cup semi's? So should be the same this year

[brian2]

Re: Middle 8's : Thu Jun 22, 2017 3:28 pm  

Gap, due to challenge cup semi's? So should be the same this year

yes that looks right, final regular match 23/7, semis on 29/30/7.....