Is battle hardened the same as knackered and injured? Or are they both seperate?

To me they are seperate. Leeds are always ready and always battle hardened. I am not sure they have been in this position before though in any of their previous play off campaigns. They certainly haven't had to play again six days later whilst being this beaten up.

If Warrington had any sense they would select the team in that position.

Warrington could throw a curveball if they wanted to (they won't but they could). Like McGuire said after the game he is 99% certain Leeds will be going to Wire as the lowest ranked, even saying they're going to start preparing for that. Hudds as well probably thinking and settling on that they'll be sent to Wigan.

Would rocking the boat work and delivering the unexpected knock Leeds/Hudds preparation?

Wire would be fools to pick us again.

Therefore I expect Wire to pick us.

We're playing Leeds, trust me on this. Safe journey over Thursday, hopefully it's another cracking game like the Friday game.

After seeing Leeds last night and their battered state surely Smith will chose the Rhinos. His squad are fit and will have trained well.
Smith will also know that a Wigan win is hardly a given as Hudds have won something like the last 5 out of 6 visits to the DW.
If he picks Hudds then he will fancy Wire's chances of beating Hull but facing Wigan or Leeds will not have the same appeal as going up against Hudds.
Beat Leeds and expect a Hudds win, then Smith will see a GF win and their first Championship since the 1950s.

Sorry, fifth line down, - meant "Wire's chances of beating Hudds" not Hull as I mistakenly wrote.

C'mon Warrington! I dare ya!

Gobsmacked, I really am gob smacked. Leeds get to final Leeds win. Semi was where Leeds would hit their wall. Wigan are not Warrington.

Well we were expecting Warrington but fortunately it's only a week further back that the players were preparing for Wigan away in the league anyway so should still be well in the memory banks from that game.

All a bunch of right experts eh!

If Mystic Yed did predictitions...

Not all none of us just didn't think that Wire's @ss would fall out and they'd bottle it!!

As I said, Huddersfield were the obvious choice for Warrington. Can't imagine why anyone would think they would prefer us over Huddersfield. Eliminate either Wigan or Leeds. makes sense.