But we must presume they will turn up as anything less would be very foolish

Correct. He flourishes from quick PTBs and stepping forward from the mark.

I always rated Shenton defensively, but felt he was starved of quality ball at Saints to do much in attack. I'd say he's a better defender than Watkins, but Watkins has the superior attack - especially with his running & footwork.

Which, by the laws of RLFANs.COM automatically means leeds will lose so cas can talk about how everyone in leeds thought it would be easy and how they sure showed us.

Maybe my comments were based on the frequency & the manner in which Senior always outmuscled him, mind you he did that to most of his opponents.
The only exception was Jamie Lyon when they tended to nullify each other.

What is wrong with Leeds fans expressing optimism about the Leeds team on the Leeds forum? It will not have a bearing on the result.

Does it matter if fans from other clubs come to gloat if Leeds lose? I have not met any of the regular message board users from southstander, so why should I care if they are ridiculed by fans of other clubs? 5 minutes in the real southstand should make it clear that a significant portion of our fans know v. little about the game or its rulings - why are you surprised when they express similar views on an internet forum?

But on the specific issue of the CC final result, YOU in all your wisdom cannot say that Leeds will definitely not win by a large score. Are you always right? To be honest I get the impression that you always want to diminish Leeds' chances of winning anything for fear of being pulled up by fans of other clubs (who you are even less likely to have met), but secretly you believe Leeds will win and are too afraid to admit.

I think Leeds will win it, by roughly a 10 point margin.

It's reverse psychology, if the fans rubbish their team's chances & bull up the opposition's then thier side is bound to win.
Obvious really, since what we say, what we wear & our match-day routine all have a bearing on how the team performs on the pitch.

It happens with both group of fans and it will intensify as the game gets closer

I think that there may be a modicum of truth with the influence that fans have on a team's performance - BMcD, JP and Sinny have all expressed an opinion about the way Leeds fans have lifted them on several occasions.

But they are referring to the loyal supporters who give vocal support on the day even when things are not going our way. Contrast this with the list of regular posters on here who seem to get off on spouting streams of regular negative comments the second we under perform in a game. It always has to be someone's fault when errors or mistakes happen.

Some folk are unable to fathom that in sport the players form cannot always be good or that the opposition sometimes play just that bit better or that in a team game getting all the various factors and timings to work like a well oiled machine is very very difficult because they are all human, and humans in all spheres regularly make mistakes and are not constantly at the top of their game.

Castleford 19 for their match vs Warrington on Friday....

1 Jordan Tansey
8 Andy Lynch
9 Adam Milner
12 Weller Hauraki
13 Nathan Massey
16 Oliver Holmes
18 Frankie Mariano
19 Scott Wheeldon
20 Jamie Ellis
21 Ashley Gibson
23 Michael Channing
24 James Clare
26 Liam Finn
28 Ben Reynolds
31 Brad Day
32 Lee Jewitt
35 Gareth Carvell
33 Will Maher
30 Jordan Howden

No Dixon, Shenton, Webster, Dorn, Sneyd or Clark. Huby and Millington injured and Carney completes his suspension.

Warrington have named all 17 who played against us in their 19 so can only see this going one way. Wonder what those on here who said Leeds losing to Bradford and not going into the semi with a positive win under our belts was a bad thing feel about what is likely to happen on Friday to Cas.

No surprises there except perhaps that Andy Lynch isn't rested.
But he may not play or may not play long minutes.
He's their JP.

anyone else a bit excited to be there when 70 odd thousand people start screaming out "yorkshire! yorkshire! yorkshire!"
very excited!

Its just you, it's all about Leeds this one.