Sadly I believe it will be a Wigan v Warrington GF

Warrington have been a great 'cup' winning team, but still to prove they have the bottle to win a GF.
As for Wigan, they're just 4th best club in SL history, desperate to try reach the level set by Leeds & St Helens over the last few years. Arrogance alone does not win trophies.

If Leeds can't win the GF (and I don't think we can) then I'm shouting for Saints. Surely their GF appearance record deserves some reward.

please stop posting on here

Leeds will not win the GF this year, people need to stop referring back to last season.

Funny people said that last year...

if catalan beat the bulls next week and wigan beat saints, catalan will finish 3rd, so it would be saints instead of catalan

Wakey at home then

Which branch would that be

I've said all year that if Leeds finish 5th i don't think they'll win the GF this time. They are capable of it as we saw last year but i think the other teams will be looking at Leeds as the team to beat in the playoffs no matter where they come in the table and i got the sense last year that we kind of snuck into the playoffs quietly with no one really expecting Leeds or any team to be able to do it from 5th - 8th.

Warrington will eventually get it right in the playoffs one year, possibly this one, and Wigan i think will be very strong once the the playoffs start having not participated in this year's CC Final and with Tommy Leuluai returning for them. Even though we've had a lot of success against Saints in the GF, Leeds' record Away @ St.Helens is quite poor and a trip to France is obviously tricky.

I would still prefer 4th right now as i've said going to the DW to play Wigan won't frighten this squad and Wigan have lost their opening playoff game there in both of the last 2 years. Worst case scenerio we lose then we come back and have another crack in 2 weeks hopefully, i'd rather have 2 attempts to beat Wigan than just one. A 5th place finish and match against a Wakey team who have won 6 in a row and pushed us close at Headingley and beat us at Belle Vue has banana skin written all over it imo.

I still don't think 4th is harder than 5th. Mainly for this reason: In the 2nd round of fixtures, if all goes with league order, 4th will play 5th. In that case, 4th get to play at home. Advantage.

Plus, 4th have already had a chance to skip that game altogether if they can upset the league leaders away. Which is tough, but could happen.

I still think people are confusing the fact that Huddersfield were utter, utter bobbins by the end of last season when Leeds were finally hitting top form with a more structural issue with the play-offs.

I shouldn't worry about that. No chance we can overhaul Saints points difference and I very much doubt Bradford, now they've finished running on adrenaline, can get a result at Catalan.

I wouldn't fancy playing Wakie right now.

A team that has gelled, is performing and digging out results.

Has 'disaster' witten all over it. They would enter the play-offs with nothing to lose, makes them a poentially dangerous opponent. If they played us at HQ and knocked us out, that would be like a GF victory for them.