Of course they are. Mags & Bob are going to roll back the years and your unyielding fawning of grizzly Bri is going to crank up several notches.

Did you copy and paste that from when you wrote that in 2011 or 2012 or 2015? Will you stick around this time when it happens?

I wrote Leeds off and tipped Warrington to take out the LLS and GF. How about yourself?

Couldn't care less if Leeds prove me wrong (I'll get over it) but honestly I've seen precious little to make me think silverwear is a realistic possibility anytime soon yet sport by it's very nature is unpredictable until it's all over.

Such a shame, we have played Cas 4 times this year and not done ourselves justice once, worry now is it seems we have a mental block when we play Cas that is causing us to commit so many schoolboy errors.

Why would any Leeds be upset if we won a GF?

Leeds can still win the grand final but I think we need Moon and Ferres both to be fit.

As scrappier match as you can see. Cas missed tackles their worst of the year by a significant margin, and Leeds added yet another notch to their plus 40 missed tackles stats. More knock ons than anyone wants to see.

Top two, and looked more like shield level. For any Leeds player, fan, or coach to take any ounce of something to work on from that, they must be high. But to be fair the same could be said of Cas, who but for momentum on attack and keeping hold of ball for 20 minutes, looked anything but the top team.

I am at a loss how a so called top coach can coach a team team to be beaten so easily so many times on the trot through the exact same tactics of the opposition. Our right hand side every time against us they run at us and tear us apart. How many games on trot.

End of 2019 season then if you expect Ferres ever to be fit

Lots of changes needed come the close season but I doubt the faces that do cone and go to be enough to really compete. I still wouldn't bet my house on Cas bringing home the GF BUT would almost feel guilty if we pulled a rabbit out of the hat & beat them after how they've outclassed us, & the rest of SL this year... I'd get over the guilt tho!!

Agree with gotcha , when cas got on a roll in first half they played some great stuff and played the ball far too fast for Leeds to handle, however some dodgy defence, in particular the JJB try and hardaker limping off will give Powell a few headaches.

Playing Wigan and hull in last 2 games is also a tricky dilemma. IMO both are a bigger threat than Leeds. Will Powell be all out for the Win or rest a few.

I won't fully write off Leeds but think they may need someone to do a Ben flower to win it.

Think Cas will rest up now. Specially next week at Wigan

I'm interested in your logic as to how you think Leeds will win the GF?

Three of the better sides are much worse than they were last year: Saints, Wigan and Warrington. The fact that Wakefield with their limited squad are 4th tells you something about the standard of the league. Their game with Saints was simply horrific. Can you honestly say the standards are not dropping in the league - seriously?

I don't think Leeds are any better - they still leak big numbers on regular basis - how many did Cas score last night. Leeds are averaging 22 points a game conceded - last year when everyone said the defence was shocking they only conceded 25 points a game - the improvement in the defence is marginal at best especially if you accept the standard of the league is falling.

You can't say that on here - Leeds are a great side this year that is why they are second. Its just when they play Cas they have an off day every time (sic)

I normally go to cas but couldn't go last night. I gather Golding spent the night on the bench? If that's the case he should be used at some stage of the game. Mainly to get some match practice in. Managed to watch most of the hull-Wigan game.
Good old fashioned game lots of niggle and aggression. If we meet either of these teams in the playoffs we will have a major challenge.