Quote: JWP "What are the playoffs though, an extension on your season, a bit of fun. It's incredibly difficult to win it from eight, incredibly difficult. Was it 2006 we won at Leeds, had a go at Bradford but came up short. Wigan try to do it every year but ultimately come up just short.
If you're to get your hands on that trophy, you're looking at four finals back to back, it's borderline impossible. I've not side a side in SL, play at a consistently brilliant level for four weeks all season, not one.
We'd be looking at say
Wigan (a), Hull KR (a), Leeds (a), Saints GF, say. Too much
Now, we're looking at Huddersfield (n), focus all efforts on that for me.'"
Here here, I couldn't agree more. After our poor start to the season all I realistically wanted/expected was a good cup run. Well it doesn't get better than a final at wembley does it? For me, this season has been a suc cess already, a win at wembley will feel incredible. Couple that with the capture of Sir Smith well the future looks very bright indeed. Forget the play-offs, they're just a one/two match extension for teams like ours at our stage of development.
Concentrate everything on the final and bring that cup home.