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No, winning every game only gets them to 30 points, which I doubt will be enough. Glad we’ve played them twice though

To be honest, I’d have taken a 6 point win when I saw the team announced. It was the performance that irritated me

Saints have kindly obliged on the points difference today

Cas were missing plenty as well. Today was a game to get the basics right and the rest would look after itself. But Leigh failed to do that.

Thoroughly unenjoyable game. So many stoppages and errors and Leigh’s discipline was shocking, with a whistle happy ref (both ways). Only seen it live and didn’t get a good view of the screen, but thought the obstruction was a really poor call. But from what I could see of the yellow, I thought he was going to be binned. Looked late as well as contact with the head. We really need to tweak the head contact rules to allow for unavoidable ones. I’ve found plenty of defeats more enjoyable than that game today. Lack of smarts in the team highlighted with the refusal to play for a drop goal near the end.

Who’s said that Leigh have the easiest run in? We’ve still to play 5 of the top 6, including Leeds away

Seems to matter. Excruciatingly poor display

Matt Davis playing a Super League game as a starting prop. Grim. And pretty poor reflection of Leigh’s depth and/or S&C

Great that York are getting new investors (assuming they weren't introduced by Krisnan Inu), but I'd be asking questions about the panel process if I were one of the London owners.

That feels unlikely given this new prop that has just signed, unless they are finally going to get Pene off the books. There is a question of how long do you wait while your first choice tries to get a better offer elsewhere.

That's another reason I'm not sure this will happen, unless the plan is to move Halton or Alick to 13, and Liu to 10.

Going to refrain from getting my hopes up, after being burned by the Amone speculation last year.

This has been done to death. Bradford would've been in SL had it stayed at 12. They effectively took Salford's place, and their funding, as the 10th best graded team on the IMG system (for want of a better name). York and Toulouse applied to be in SL on the basis of no funding. Had nobody applied, or you'd hope even nobody credible had applied, we would've stayed at 12.

What stadium will be used in Hudds' grading score this year? And do they have a deadline to confirm a home ground for next year, in order to stay in SL?

Think that was my favourite Magic Weekend so far, having been to Cardiff, Murrayfield, Manchester and Newcastle (and I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest it was better than Anfield and Elland Road). The stadium is great, and holds the atmosphere better than St James' Park. can feel like it's a bit of a climb, but that issue should be reduced by the handrails at the end of each row to help people climbing the steps. Anyone that's done Catalans away will find those steps a breeze in comparison. I was wary about the safe standing area, having endured the safe standing at Old Trafford, but it was probably to comfiest section to sit in if you wanted to sit. It's a fair walk from town, but thought there was enough in the fanzone to keep you at the ground. Glad it's staying at Everton next year. ideally it would've been at the start of July again, but the availability can't be helped. I'd consider changing the fixtures around a bit though, as the same matches at the same ground could be a difficult sell. Maybe Leeds - Wakey and Bulls - Cas would be a start?