These games are now meaningless. Use the opportunity to give the likes of Smith, Mullalley, Handley etc a start.

Meaningless for Leeds and Leigh but for the integrity of the competition they are not. Certainly not meaningless for HKR and The Giants and financially not for others as the difference in funding between 6th and 7th is around 300k. I understand in a way what people are saying but come on, there are only 2 games left of the season. The only game at this moment in time that is meaningless is Leeds v Leigh in week 7.

The middle eights are over for us now, we should take the opportunity to send as many players away for a long pre-season as possible.

I agree.
If we deliberately field a weakened team it makes the competition a farce as we could be the one who decides who goes down
I am sure if we were in the same position as Salford, Huddersfield and HKR and one of them did the same to us there be uproar and outrage on this board.

We would play the same way whether we put the same team as last week, or make half a dozen changes. The only thing that would change would be the enthusiasm from those looking to stake a claim. That can only be for the benefit of those teams who haven't warranted the right to rest players.

The point I am making is not whether the first team will be ars*d to play, but we should be seen to do the right thing for the sake of the competition and not give an unfair advantage to another team.

We will play a full team, or as close as damn it, but the first teamers heads will be 'on the beach' so to speak. So Gotcha has a point, it would be likely far harder for Hudds facing a set of young players hungry to stake a claim and impress than a set of players who realise the season is pretty much done and are going through the motions.

The dead rubber is against Leigh in the final week.
However there might be a hefty difference in cash paid to the winner of the qualifiers compared to the runner up so still something to play for.
As far as resting players goes I would imagine Watkins, Hall and possibly Ferres will make the Engalnd side so maybe give them a week off at the end.
Give two or three fringe players a run against Leigh but I would resist wholesale changes against Huddersfield.
I am sure given the chance Leigh would love to rough up our young inexperienced pack if we opted to promote the U19`s for this game.

Correct me if i'm wrong but I think it's the same prize money for the top 3 or 4?

your prize money is your SL tv money.

5-8 get prize money because they miss out on the SL money.

From a giants fans perspective I'd like only to play the strongest Leeds team available. We are in a mess and we ourselves need to learn to put it right without the help from anyone. It would be unfair to the entire system.

Why wouldn't you want your strongest team out. From the shambles you've had to watch for most of the season, you're loyalty is owed every good game they can give you. They don't deserve an early break.

It's not about them deserving a break, it's about I'm more interested in us doing well in 2017 than these two games. Sooner some players get themselves fixed and rested up the sooner they can get back for pre-season.

We had an early exit from the 2014 playoffs and a losing run in the league and look how we came back in 2015
We had a very long season in 2015 and spent several weeks patting ourselves on our backs and look how 2016 went.
Look at Hull and Warrington, they stopped caring about the 2015 season from the first week of the Top 8's and look at them now.

Putting on a performance against Hudds isn't going to polish what's happened this year so why even pretend. All thought should be on 2017 now, that gives us several weeks head start on the likes of the current Top 4 who still have to focus on this year.