Almost accuse Sheens of throwing this game. Ultimately not important but a bad taste in the mouth because of it. We better beat Leigh.....

We nearly beat a Toulouse at full strength, in their own backyard, with an almost second string team, youngsters can take plenty of positives from it and think it proves we are deffo the only ones capable of going up from this division. Make no mistake about it, Sheens is targeting the Leigh game, we should take an almost full strength team there and I fancy us for the win. Leigh having played both Easter fixtures with their strongest team possible, should be tired for Saturday, were on the other hand, rovers should be fairly fresh.

We have manipulated the system .agree it is sour taste but not our fault this middle 8 crap has been brought in.Still think in any sport 1 up 1 down is only fair way of doing it.if you have to have a playoff then Make it similar to football but the champions go up and the bottom go down.thought this last year even before we snatched relegation from victory

I obviously can't demand a win next week, but can demand a full strength side after fielding a deliberately weakened side today, and I expect a top drawer performance. Only then will we know how far away we are from SL standard.

Interesting suggestion on another site that Rovers will want Toulouse and Featherstone to finish 2nd & 3rd in the regular season to ensure we meet them at home in th 8''s.

Is Sheens that wily and calculating to be thinking that far ahead, will we send a simular team to Fev in June to try and manipulate the final table ?

No

Why on earth would he even think about that? Sheens us thinking about development of our squad and our performances. I reckon most coaches let the league positions look after themselves.

I'd say yes.even at lower level sport,im talking pub leagues people look at rules and systems and make it work to suit them .Would be nieve to think a coach of Sheens nous wouldn't have looked at how system could be bent for own benefit.From purely a fans pov we have put more pressure on ourselves for cup game by today's actions and my mindset for cup game has changed in that I was hoping to win now I want that win.worst case scenario is a scudding by weakened Leigh side versus our top lads and suddenly taking a dive today looks bad decision.in a nutshell I hope us as a club have looked at how top 4 will likely pan out.

The aims for the first 23 games are to secure a place in the 8s with 4 home fixtures and be battle-hardened without being busted. We started the weekend 4 points clear and we still are.



It might leave some people with a sour taste, but after our naivety last season, I'm not in the least bit sorry if the show is now being run by somebody willing to use the system to our advantage.



We might prefer one up, one down but we have to deal system as it is, not as we might wish it to be.

Yes.that is the truth. But the Leigh game I'd say Sheens has turned up the pressure on his team.best to find out now I suppose?

I don't think Saturdays result matters no point risking players when there's no need we're going to finish top that's a cert we played the second best side at there place with a virtual second string and could have still won we played poorly against Fev and still out scored them 6 tries to 3 it will be interesting on Saturday but no shame in defeat even if they rest a few which I think they will

I see both sides of the decisions today.the bigger question is how will bottom 4 of superleague fall?hudds wid look nailed on,probably Leigh after a good start.most pundits seem to think Warry will climb out of cesspit 8s so who will lurch into the bun fight? Catalans got few early biased calls today but were good enough to take advantage and as it gets warmer they will probably win enough home games to be safe.Wakey look solid even in last 2 televised losses . Salford for me are over performing and may bottom out.