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Warrington have exactly the same side as last year, but the likes of Briers, Morley, Monaghan & Hodgson are all a year older. Still a tough side, but not what they were last year.



Wigan have several key losses with Finch, Leuluai, Lima & Carmont all gone. Given their replacements are Blake Green, Matty Smith, Scott Taylor and Iain Thornley, I can honestly only see one position where they tread water. Will fall away this year.



Saints are improved with the addition of Manu and Turner, and have a host of good kids coming through. That said, with Choker Brown in charge, and their recent rep as 'nearly men', it's going to be tough.



Hull have made some good additions, but really? I don't look at their side and see a particularly frightening team, certainly not one that we should be losing to.



At LS6 we've effectively gained another top second row (Ablett), by bringing in a better left centre (Moon), we've added in the forwards (Achurch), and have the likes of Ward and McShane who should really be nailing down a place in the side this year.



Honestly, I reckon it's a three way fight between us, Wire and Saints for the LLS. Wigan, Catalans and Hull to fight over 4-6, Wakey a comfortable seventh and then Huddersfield, Bradford & Hull KR vying for the 8th spot.

On Warrington, yes the likes of Briers, Morley etc are a year older but also players like Harrison, Hill, Myler, Ratchford have a year more experience

My prediction:

Saints

Wire

Leeds

Hull

Wigan

Cats

Wakey

BULLS

Hudds

London

HKR

Cas

Widnes

Salford



And come the season's end you'll be reading allegations by apoplectic Wigan fans that despite their finishing fifth the road to OT was much harder than it was in 2012, mainly because the top four comprised better teams than it did a year previously.

as promised jonesy is keenly keeping an eye out for all the celebrity big hitters out there that dare to predict the outcome of the 2013 season,garry schofield is predicting his finishing positions in weekly installments in the league express newspaper so these can't be posted just yet,i reckon that he is just buying himself some more time after his poor showing last season!





brian noble has predicted his final league table in this months 40/20 mag and it is as follows-



1: warrington

2: leeds

3: saints

4: wigan

5: hull fc

6: catalan

7: huddersfield

8: london

9: wakefield

10: bradford

11: hull kr

12: castleford

13: widnes

14: salford

1 Saints

2 Wigan

3 Wire

4 Cats

5 Rhinos

6 Rovers

7 Hull

8 Giants

9 Wakey

10 Bulls

11 Tigers

12 Vikings

13 Reds

14 Broncos

One too many Wakefields and one too few Huddersfields in there. OK to edit or post an ammendment - without a correction though the entry won't be valid come season start.

1 - Warrington

2 - St Helens

3 - Wigan

4 - Leeds

5 - Hull

6 - Catalans

7 - Huddersfield

8 - Hull KR

9 - Wakefield

10 - London

11 - Bradford

12 - Widnes

13 - Castleford

14 - Salford

1: Rhinos

2: Wolves

3: Saints

4: Wigan

5: Hull FC

6: Catalan

7: Hull KR

8: Wildcats

9: Bulls

10: Giants

11: London

12: Tigers

13: Widnes

14: Salford

I doubt Salford will finish bottom now should the T/O get completed1

i recalled reading a post from william eve regarding the 2013 finishing positions so i have sought out this big hitters predictions and have posted it here for all to see:

1 warrington

2 wigan

3 st helens

4 leeds

5 catalan

6 hull fc

7 huddersfield

8 wakefield

9 bradford

10 hkr

11 castleford

12 widnes

13 salford

14 london



can i also add junior slippery morris who was to tight to pay £10 out of his pocket money to take part in our weekly rounds but because this is free he would like ago

1 warrington

2 wigan

3 saints

4 leeds

5 catalan

6 hull fc

7 huddersfield

8 bradford

9 hull kr

10 salford

11 wakefield

12 london

13 castleford

14 widnes

cheers