Oh dear, Ratty. Many of us enjoy speculation and prediction as is common among, I'd say, most sportsfans ( and to my mind, quite natural and interesting ), especially as here, usually being a lot more varied than you imply.

Anyway, I'd maybe steer clear of football forums and / or many pub debates :)

Really almost any sport would be to me less interesting now, and looking to the future, if it is not in the context of my own wishes, but also my expectations.

Certainly James has relatively little to defend for the rest of the year, and indeed nothing for the first month of next year.

Still big ask to reach the top 100 during that time. His year to date points total is 315 and WR 100 is currently on 569 points, so we're talking about probably adding about a further 250 points.

Good opportunity though to at least take out his CH in the short term.