Proud,

That would be the best way to describe how I feel after tonight's match. I thought all the senior players gave it a good shot, and the young lads, of which we had many, really stood up.

With a bit of luck, and a fair crack of the whip I think we would have won, against a strong Giants team.

No mention on Sky of our severely weakened team, nor of the run of questionable decisions during the match.

I would not criticise BJB, nor any of the team, they all tried, and they were never going to win, Sky and SL did not want us to win !!!! as they also want Bradford out of SL.

Anyway I will always be a Rhino, we may have lost the match but I think we got the moral victory tonight,

But he didn't and we're not. He wasn't even banned by the RFL so it obviously wasn't deemed to be worthy of a red card either.

And as for what's going to happen between now and October. Yes, a lot can happen and I can guarantee at least 2 things. Your lot won't be at Wembley and you'll get knocked out of the play offs by some no hopers like Hull KR following a huge choke by Scotland's finest.

We've got one of the best kickers and organisers in the game, someone who very rarely goes missing when it matters and I've no doubt he'll hit top form again soon enough.

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Leeds recent form hasn't so far been that damaging with saints losing. They'll be 1 point behind Wigan if they win their game in hand and are 1 point behind saints which effectively puts them 3rd. They need to start winning again and fast otherwise one of saints or Wigan will put daylight between us.

Leeds need to keep themselves in that top 2 and just keep plugging away until the guns return

Yeah next Sunday we don't want to slip up. We are away to Widnes who have to play Wigan this Wednesday in the catch-up from the WCC so on a short turn around we should win it. Also Saints play Cas that day and have to go to Wigan the following week so they have it tricky coming up.

Before we play Saints again our fixtures look like this

Widnes (A)
Catalans (H)
Wakey (A)
HKR (H)
Cas (H)
Salford (A)
Bradford (H)
London (A)

We should be looking at getting AT LEAST 14 from a possible 16 points there IMO, if not all the points (but a slip up can happen and Cas is tricky also.)

That would take us to 37 (or 39) points. Going on past years and the tightness of this years competition I'd say 40/41 should get you top 2.

After that run of games we face Saints (H), Wigan (A) and Hull (A) to finish the season off.
Saints end the year Leeds (A), Wire (H) and Hudds (A).

Looking at Wigan's remaining fixture list and with them out of the cup then if they beat Saints in two weeks time I think they'll be top 2 by the end of the year, so between ourselves and Saints for the other top 2 spot I reckon.