I'm sure that the team would prefer to be top four but under the present format it's not essential. We have as good a chance of getting to OT as any of the other top 6 imo.
I think this season has been much closer at the top and although this maybe our lowest finish for years it doesn't reflect how well we have competed with the other top sides. Indeed we could finish closer to the top team on points than we have done since 09, only 4points if we were to win next week and Saints lose. If we had gone out of the CC in April im sure we would have been top 2 now. Winning the cup was a price worth paying for a slightly more difficult route to OT.

So long as Wigan and Wire are kept apart in the first round, we will walk to the semi final.

Home to .. Catalan? Away at Cas? Yes please. Stop worrying, we'll walk the double this year.

If Cas and Hudds win like you'd expect tomorrow then the table looks like, with us being confirmed for 6th

Saints - 38
Cas - 36
Wigan - 35
Wire - 35
Hudds - 35

I'll go for next weekend Hudds to beat Saints, Wire to beat Wigan, Cas to beat Catalans

So a finish of IMO

Cas
Saints
Wire
Hudds
Wigan

Think Widnes with get 7th so them first up for us.

wigan finishing 5th would definitly be better for us, means we are guaranteed to avoid them in the final semi should we get that far.

It would be better for Leeds to face Wigan in the semi final rather than the final surely?

I never said it was easy .the league games they played almost a complete 2nd choice team and lost because of the CC games coming up and lost.The cup games against Saints and Wire were among the best performances

Well part of the reason the team got this Wembley fever thing straight after beating Saints is because they knew their opponents were lower league (admittedly the best of them) in the next round. They'll have definitely been a case of already thinking they'll make the semis in their heads, it almost tripped them up.

They lost in that game last season.

They've never beaten Wigan in any final.

NOT EVER.

They had a terrible record against wigan in knock out games full stop, but then they started beating them in semi finals 04, 07, 08, 12 x 2

Exactly.

Leeds record in semi finals against Wigan is a lot healthier than their record against Wigan in finals.

Conclusion? Wigan in the semis please.

Which finals have they met Wigan in during the last decade then? 1 isn't it?