I’m pretty relaxed this year, we have nothing to lose. It’s almost worst when you finish top/high and then the whole season can disappear down the plug hole on one loss.

In many ways its been a season from hell. No half backs all year, players filling in everywhere, around 10 players out most weeks but we are 80 minutes from the Grand Final and if we make it i think we will win it actually. Pretty remarkable.

Saints battered us a few week ago but they will be facing a different pack this time. We need big minutes from Mikolaj Fri. We need more from Prior and Zane than weve had recently too.

That said Saints are the best in the competition and on their day beat anyone comfortably. Outstanding club and team.

Weve a team that will give its all and has nothing to lose. Weve done ok with all the adversity and craziness weve had this year. We are up against it but its not impossible. Either way we will be better next year.

Cant wait for Friday.

Completely gutted that KR won. Not that Warrington are out or that we are playing Saints but that we are now playing on the Friday, I'll miss the game as have work commitment on Friday night and have Thursday clear

indeed, I cant watch friday either

Totally agree, ask a Warrington or Wigan fan who’s had a better season us or them!

Im far more happy with our season and more importantly how the squad is shaping up for next than either of those.

Will be interesting to see how Powell goes at Warrington though

Exact opposite for me Thursday is mine and my wifes anniversary so would have had to try and either wait to rewatch the game or try explaining that I have to watch the game live

He will go well.

I'm not sure he will.
cas mark 2. entertaining but wont win anything

It’s an interesting one, Powell seems to be a coach that can gets the best out of limited resources both on and off the field, the Warrington job is the exact opposite of that, he will have a star studded squad and some of the best off field stuff in the league, expectations will be very high.

Unfortunately for him what he has shown is that in the big games his teams have been found wanting, he needs to shake that off at Warrington.

Dont think hes ever really had a team capable or expecting to win things even 2017 was out of the blue really. The fact he got Cas to compete for silverware was an achievement. When at Leeds we had a young team and he got us close. Lets see how Cas go without him.

I think hes a great appointment for Wire, he had been at Cas a long time and probably things went stale. Hes a good coach tho.

probably finished in correct position though could say hull have underachieved and wigan over achieved , kr have surprised everyone and may have benefited from cancellations.
can't fault the effort most of the year ad some defeats go down to the crazy schedule . sts and cats a clear top two but into any given sunday territory

Not feeling confident that we can beat Saints, who IMO are the best team in the comp by a country mile, no matter what the league table says, or 5 minutes of madness in the Magic game. It's one thing that we have a few more key bodies back, but even so, we've not had the luxury of them playing together into form as Saints have for most of the year. Never say never though, and I think it suits Leeds best to go into these kinds of games as underdogs - looking forward to it and seeing how Leeds approach the game.

Would have preferred Catalans, who have a weak underbelly IMO, even though it is probably good that we are avoiding the long trip.

Beauty of this game is that we'll find out where we really are. For various reasons over the last couple of years we haven't fielded a remotely first strength team against Saints. This time (fingers crossed re suspensions) we'll be there or thereabouts. Let's face it, if both teams play to 100% of their potential Saints will win with a bit to spare, but how many times does that happen in sport? If Saints are a bit underdone and we peak, we could win. Wouldn't that be amazing! Would love to see Gale back and something like fit because he would make a difference.

If we have Oledzki and Newman available then I think we have a chance. If Oledzki gets banned, I don't think we will win.

We need to rattle Walmsley like we did in the CC fixture. Get Oledzki, Prior, Tetevano and Holroyd smashing into him. He was off his game because we got stuck in.

Really looking forward to the game - a slightly strange situation to see lots of Saints fans worried to have Lomax back fit given how well Welsby/Dodd have been playing together in the halves.

Feel confident we have too much but just look at the Wire - Hull KR game, you just never know and a Leeds win would be nothing like as big an upset as the Rovers result.