Top three, bottom three?

Ealing and Worcester are the teams to beat.

From a Donny perspective, I am pretty confident that we will finish in the top 3. We’ve kept the core of last season’s team and and have bought in some good additions. The top end of the league looks as strong as it ever has, particularly with Worcester being back as well. I’d have Ealing favourites for top spot with Blues, Donny and Worcester all battling to finish 2nd.

I fancy Donny for top 3. They finished very strongly last season and have recruited well
Time for Cov to step up, I think they'll be close.
I suppose it has to be Ealing and Wuss top two. I'll plump for Donny in 3rd.
Can't tell about Scottish and their Quins link, so I'll go for Cambridge, Richmond, Caldy bottom 3.

Edited by Stalwart* - Yesterday at 10:54

Im hoping scottish continue their good form from the end of last season to finish above the bottom 3. 

I think Cambridge still have a significant number (10+) of player announcements to make so it’s currently difficult to assess the quality (or otherwise) of our match day squad. We will undoubtedly be a more competitive outfit next season but whether we’ll be good enough to avoid the relegation places remains to be seen. Can’t see beyond Ealing & Worcester for top spot and I imagine Bedford, Doncaster, Coventry & Pirates will make up the remaining play off places. At the wrong end of the table it’s highly likely that Caldy, Richmond & Ampthill will be vying with us to avoid the trap door to Nat1 even though that is no bad place to be. Great rugby clubs playing on a more level playing field creating much greater integrity throughout the league.

TeflonTed wrote: Gerg861, I’m going to suggest you’re wrong in saying Wuss’s recruitment strategy was similar to that previously seen at Ealing. Never before has a new management, with a head coach who’s never before been in sole charge at anywhere near this level, had to recruit an entire squad from scratch, with nothing previous to develop upon. The mix of ages is trying to achieve a quick start, clearly a good 12/14 or so of the squad have a couple of years at most left in them. There’s then a bunch of seasoned journeymen, and then the cohort of exciting youngsters who we hope will come good quickly.  We have absolutely no idea how this is going to go, and much as Matt Everard has had some pretty good experience, we also really have no idea how he’s going to turn out as the man in charge. I don’t know enough to join in the prediction element here, but I do know that a good many supporters have absolutely no desire to get back to the prem  in the first couple of years. We’ll be happy enough to be in the top 3 or 4 and have a go at the playoffs, if we’re not close to Bedford, Donny & Cov then somethings not working. Ealing are entirely a different animal. I was at FG to see them v Saints (2nd’s) in the cup game, and came away convinced they’d probably sort out Falcons and Exeter easily enough on a good day.