I think unacceptable is the wrong word, i can accept when a team is better than the one i support but you should never be satisfied that they are.

No. Ask one of your SL whipping boy rabble supporters how many trophies they win by being crap every year or even any Leeds fan old enough to remember pre 2004.

Anyway, you always think whoever wins Stuporleague is rubbish, it's a rubbish competition.

Why do people think we are easing off as part of some great masterplan come playoff time? If we were easing off thinking of September/October time then why are we playing the same guys week-in week-out, the likes of Peacock & Delaney look knackered and still not given a rest. The team selection hardly smacks of a saving ourselves for later philosophy. We are losing because we are playing poor not because of some saving it for later plan.

Another difference this year is that there's not going to be an easy off-form Huddersfield away game in the middle of the playoff run.

Wherever we come 5th-8th, the first game will be winnable. Hull away would be the hardest, otherwise it'd likely be Huddersfield or Hull KR. Not certain wins, but games Leeds should win *if they're on playoff form*.

But then it would likely be St.Helens away then Wigan away to get to the Grand Final, and it's bloody hard to imagine managing that.

There are a lot of reasons why doing it from outside the top four last year was unusual, but a fixture list of Hull(h) Hudds(a) Warrington(a) rather than Hull(a) Saints(a) Wigan(a) was one of them.

I wasn't aware Leeds were whipping boy SL rabble.

Aren't they genuine contenders who (if they were to win SL again this year) will be proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that it is possible to be rubbish (strategic or otherwise) for the most part and still win silverware?

Because I have seen this team peak when it matters many times over the last few years. The difference in intensity between the WCC and the loss against Bradford only a few weeks later is marked. If it was just form these bad games would appear in key games as well. Over the last few years the only key game I have seen perform the way they are at the moment is during the CC final, otherwise they have been bang on in games that matter for the last 5 years, even if they didn;t end up winning all of them

I agree some players look knackered, and if I were trying to save something back for the end of the season I would rotate my squad better both on match day, and week to week.