Previous post turned out to be uncomfortably accurate.
A spate of new injuries and a couple of sending offs and suspensions has left us down to the bare bones at the moment and we're in the middle of trying to negotiate a three game week before the international break when we should be getting our captain and a couple of others back from the treatment room.
Somehow, we're hanging in there despite being tested severely by two very physical and athletic teams with tactically astute managers who knew exactly where to target us. We've somehow scraped a couple of wins and if we can go back to the well one more time on Saturday and get some sort of result we'll have got away with it and normal service should be resumed after the break.
That said, it's been so close a few of us have been wondering if there's any money left in the pot for a bit of wheeling and dealing in January.
Can't complain though - we're still 3rd and if we come out of this without losing touch with the leaders it will have been a great achievement under very difficult circumstances.