Both could cause us a lot of damage this weekend if we dont sharpen up our marker/ruck defence which was again v.poor vs Hull. Buderus especially.

As long as we keep Monaghan fit and healthy we still have a chance.

Still have a chance??? God your optimistic!!

Even without Monaghan fit we have a very very good chance. I am confident we'll perform well and it will be enough to lift the cup again.

why is monners injured???

More than Buderus and McGuire you mean.

Was our marker defence poor against Hull. I don't remember Houghton doing anything apart from being Morley's door-mat on the way to the line for his try

I thought the marker defence was pretty good. Hull came with a game plan to take us on up front and had a reasonably good kicking game.
Our pace and power out wide sorted them out in the second half.

Buderus murdered us around the ruck a few weeks ago at the HJ.

When I saw this thread and as I clicked on it, I thought that these to were out

If you look at the likely Leeds team, it's very strong indeed. Admittedly, it is weaker following the loss of Burgess and Peacock in particular but we'll have to be at our very best to beat them, particularly in a final where their recent record is really rather good.

I agree with the OP - if we don't stop the 2 Dannys we'll be in for a long afternoon.

Leeds team could look something like this

Webb
Donald/Smith
Delaney
Senior
Hall
Sinfield
McGuire
Bailey
Buderus
Leuluai
Ablett
Jones-Buchanan
Clarkson

Burrow
Diskin
Eastwood
Lauitiiti