Quote Sal Paradise="Sal Paradise"Resting players has been shown not to necessarily deliver the correct outcomes. When Leeds won the GF from fifth playing there strongest side every week at the end of the campaign was seen as a real positive when compared to sides who had weeks off and rested players.
This isn't just about Leeds this is about an even playing field where potentially players livelihoods are at risk'"
Nothing rests on Leeds vs Leigh so that one has zero impact on players livelihoods.
As for the Hudds game. They, HKR and Salford have had 28 games to guarantee their safety. If it was the other way round and HKR were safe and resting players and we were in 4th I'm sure you'd be the first to say we've only got ourselves to blame. HKR might seem the team most affected by us resting players vs Hudds but KR's future is still in their own hands by beating Hudds the following week and they could've beaten Leigh the other week and they could've beaten us in Round 23 and gotten those different fixtures and an extra home game.
If we want to do well in 2017 we start the preparation for 2017 right now. Hull and Warrington weren't naming strongest lineups for pretty much all of last year's Top 8's and were instead looking ahead to 2016 and look how that's done for them. The sooner we get players rested, fit, fixed up for the 2017 pre-season the better chance we have of hitting the ground running in 2017.
I was one of the people who said we had to go as serious as possible vs Batley as their was a job to do and others wanted half the u19's in.....that in my opinion was showing the greater disrespect to the competition when safety wasn't guaranteed.
Let's put it is way. If Kallum Watkins plays vs Hudds and does his knee exactly the same as Stevie Ward did 12 months and we lose him for most of 2017 as we still happy we picked our strongest lineup?