Some of you lot define the word complacency. I hope the Leeds players and staff share a similar mentality i really do.

No one gave Feath a chance when we played Cas in the cup a few years back. Or when we ran Wigan close the following round. Or when we beat Hull in the Challenge Cup all those years ago. Or even when we played Bradford in the decider.
At the end of the day, yes you SHOULD win, but after the season you've had so far could you really say with 100% confidence that you expect a pretty routine victory? That may well turn out to be the case but don't be counting your chickens just yet.

As far as us Feath lot are concerned, everything from here is a bonus. We've banked some extra dosh and that should allow us to make a couple of shrewd signings to compliment the current squad for next year. When you don't receive anywhere near as much money every year from the RFL or Sky then that's all we can do and most of the fans have become accustomed to it now. Make no mistake though, the fans still want more and we're all loving the fact that it's actually possible again to have an opportunity to make claim for Super League next year. With the closed shop we've all witnessed for the past 15-20 years i'm taking that as a win. You Super League lot have been truly spoilt!

The players on the other hand will be having different ideas. Make no mistake, they've worked their backsides off the last few weeks to make the middle 8's. They won't just be showing up on Sunday, they'll be giving it a reyt go.

Worth noting as well that we're a part time team. That definitely has disadvantages don't get me wrong, but the one up shot is that there's only 2 or 3 clubs that can pretty much pick from the Part Time players every season. Some of the talent in the part time roster are very talented players, they may have decided for whatever reason that part time is the way to go for now. We have some high standard players for sure.

Our fitness has improved leaps and bounds as we've gone through the season as we proved against the full time Bradford, we can go 80 minutes against full time sides.

I'm hoping for a close game with a lot of excitement and a few shocks and surprises along the way. It should be great to see Post Office Road bouncing for the 2nd home game in a row. We can certainly put on a show for the cameras so i hope your guys are ready

And to answer the posters question about danger men:

Danger Men
Ellis
Thackeray
Briggs
Davies
Taulapapa
Bostock

Solid Players
Everyone else

Agreed - without Chicko it would have been embarrassing.

Imaging what would have happened with Faloon in the 9 shirt.

We were so lucky that Kelly had a nightmare for them. If they had only converted half the efforts they had in our 20 we'd have been well beaten.
I can't recall having been so deflated by a winning performance.
The only saving grace was our defence.
On that showing after watching Leigh vs Salford yesterday we'll struggle against both of them.
We were bl**dy woeful.

spot on with all that. if changes are not made for next year we will struggle massively again

I look at Cas' squad & think that there are very few players who would improve our squad (Gale is probably the exception) & I look at their current injury situation yet still they can beat the two (alleged) form teams at the top of superleague.
The only difference can then be their coaching compared to ours.
We must beef up our coaching set-up before anything else.
The current contracts mean that wholesale changes can't & won't happen so all that GH can realistically change are the coaches & other backroom staff.
Will that happen? Who knows?

Agree. Anybody still defending our coaching set up needs to be sent to Coventry (or to Spain where the epitome of McDermott acolytes seem to reside)....

Yes we need to desperately retain our 'lucky find' and recruit a decent game controlling HB....but most of all we need a new coaching set up.