I admire your optimism, as I did your "we will win the lot" prediction a year or so ago.

We could easily have a CC final performance in any of the play off games.

whos discounting you ,the grand final will be 2 of wigan,hullkr, and wire,the best 3 teams in the league this year,wire and kr are capable of winning it on the day

Think it’s pretty simple now.

HKR v Leeds HKR win this.
Leigh v Saints
Hull v Catalan

Leigh lose we will play Catalan because as bad as Catalan are they beat Hull. Leigh win we play Saints

If we had beaten Wigan at home, we would be in joint 1st place with a win over London at home for the LLS. Instead we lost 18-19 playing a youthful side.

Fine margins.

Lesson from this? Don't rest players and treat the league with respect.

I know we shouldn't be fearing anyone, but it's not as if I'm going to be playing so I will admit I don't want us to have to play Saints. As bad as they have been recently, they're very very experienced at winning play off games, and you just never know with them.

Hull KR have been brilliant, and they absolutely battered us in August. If we go there in the semi final and lose then it will obviously hurt but will also come with a level of acceptance that maybe they're just better than us at the moment.

Losing that 3 V 6 match at home would be very painful though. I don't want Saints.

Always treat the league with respect but not sure this really proves much about resting players.
Coaches will always rest players & fans will always use hindsight & play down the possibility of injury & suspension. If we had picked our first team players they might have not given their all.
Wigan rested a few too and some of their top players who played probably had Wembley on their minds.