If we finish 4th after the split which is where we are now in theory that would give us a semi final against probably halifax Featherstone or London exciting end to the season
not bothered about end of season, just on getting enough points to stay up, and while 8th gets you 4 home games, one of those is against the 5th placed team(the best of the rest) so really its 3 winables and one very tough one.
then away we would have to play the the remaining teams who finished 6th and 7th (so you play fev or london, or fax, or dews) then the team who finish second bottom(so away to either town, hunslet, batley , while not getting a home game against them)
so finishing 8th is not the advantage it should be
in short 8th gets you 3 very winable homes games, a very tough home game, 2 very tough away games and one tough but winable away game
which is why we need to take as many points as possible from remaining games, going into the 8's with say a 4 point cushion on some teams could mean a couple of wins in the 8's will see you home