A month ago they were unlucky to lose to Saints - on that form they will waltz through this - it depends which team turns up I suppose.

I only hope for your team's sake that the players do not have your attitude. If they do you will get stuffed.

To be fair Leeds are quite a way off top 8 superleague standard going on the last 2 months.
I think you will be fine but you need to hope the players are not thinking like some of the posters on here. You could well come unstuck.

true if they thought like some posters on here they'd probably just give up as they'd think they have no talent whatsoever

If the players turn up for any game thinking they can’t win then they really will have a problem.

There is a great difference between thinking you can win and not respecting the opposition.

You say "let's face it Hull KR are no great shakes and they are the next best team." Since we lost to you by two points, with a depleted side,we have beaten Wigan, lost to Cas, drawn away at Cas, heavily defeated Salford and Huddersfield, (the only team to beat Hudds since they started on their run, won away at Widnes, lost to Wires and beaten FC away.

During that time Rhinos have beaten Widnes. On current form we are the next best team to Rhinos?

As I said I hope the team to not share your view of the situation. On second thoughts yes I do.

I hate these 8s as we’ve been in them every year the first year we cruised through with 7/7 and had a Wembley final in the middle (least said about that the better) then we lost the million pound game in dramatic fashion then won our first 5 games as a championship club to go up last year so although we’ve ran into a bit of form I’m still nervous about them

On form Salford and KR are better than us. To beat either of them we'll have to play better than we have recently. With the CC distraction around the biggest danger will be losing a game we should win, which could make things very tight.

get beat by Warrington, by a big margin and finally its might hit home, we are in deep trouble. 3 wins and a draw in 14 games.

Problem is that this^ team has barely shown up, aside from the Saints game and the odd 20 mins here and there. The other incarnation has been stinking the place out for the bulk of the season, and odds are they'll be there for long patches in the middle 8s. On current form few of the fixtures are a given.

I find it hard to believe this team won at both Warrington and saints earlier in the season

On paper we're stronger now than in either of those games, excluding Watkins.

I am struggling with all this negativity - and I usually one of the most negative.

Do fans really think the championship sides are going to run Leeds close?

All the other teams finished below Leeds in the table - what does that say about their quality?

Unless Leeds have significant injuries to key player e.g. Parcell/Myler they should easily retain their SL status

Form is much more critical than quality in games against vaguely well matched opponents. Salford and Hull KR finished below Leeds because Leeds racked up top 4 or 5 amounts of points in the first third/half of the season.

If we finally manage to run into some form we will be OK. If we don't we may still be OK but it won't be half as easy.

Stop worrying chaps, at the end of the season after the play offs etc, SL will announce that SL is expanding to 16 teams, made up of the 12 teams in SL plus the top 4 teams in the championship, can you imagine if it was announced before the play offs. This gives an equal split across SL, with teams in Yorkshire, Lancs, Cheshire, Hull, France plus team from London and Canada.
Have you wondered why Leigh have been desperate to off load players before the year end, They want at al costs to have Toronto in SL , they can't afford Leeds to drop down into the Championship and they want a second French team in SL . Let's see what happens