What about Hardaker and Holmes?

Leeds done well to only be 14 down especially after that opening 20

He's cooked

Holmes 18th man, no sign of Zak

Lam been totally invisible for Leigh tonight.

From winning 68-6 to losing 38-0 shows the absolute chasm between top and bottom of the table. The whole club has so much to do in the closed season.

Wigan to win Grand Final. Saints could be dark horses

Not exactly going out on a limb there, given the history.

Bit like predicting everybody will die at the end of Hamlet, that Godot won’t arrive or that Vader is Luke’s father.

Give over. A lot tipping the big dogs to win it this year. Pundits drooling over the Dobbins. Second favourites. I just think there will bottle it.

Or that rovers haven’t won owt for 40yrs….lets see what happens with the whinging git Mingchella….

Everybody expects not-Wigan/Saints/Leeds to ‘bottle it’ every year, and they’re invariably right.

Rovers being good offers a little bit of novelty in a competition that is mostly bereft of it, and it is one of the two or three subplots that pop up each year to help get us through to the same routine and predictable conclusion of the main storyline.

I do think Rovers will get to Old Trafford. They've got a home semi which will be massive for them.

When did they last lose at home? Wire in round 4?