Where has all this "considered the weakest" come from? You've just finished top of the table.

I'm assuming the reason we picked you is due to our recent record against you, especially in knockout competition.

As for arrogance, your fans have been full of it since you topped the table.

Damned if you pick Huddersfield and damned if you pick Leeds. You just can't win with this club call. Personally, I'd have gone for Leeds as they looked well tired after the Saints game, and hardly sparkled against a team with no half backs. Still, you have got to beat everybody at some stage, so Giants it is.

Precisely.

Not only did some of our fans say it was the wrong choice, other teams fans were also saying it's the wrong choice and it will come back to bite Wire on the backside.

Yet if we'd have chosen Leeds, it also would have been a bad choice because Leeds are the current champions, they have form in the playoffs and we chose them last time and got beat.

You just can't win with this. Choosing any of the two sides would have meant it was the "wrong" decision.

If we beat Huddersfield and get to the final, would people still be saying it was the wrong decision? What if we'd have chosen Leeds and got knocked out again? Would people have been saying, "oh, you should have chosen Huddersfield"?

What he said.

Agree

Still some jokers on like to read more into it

IF Wire, Wigan and/or Leeds had gone all out to finish top rather than aim for the top four in the best possible shape, would Huddersfield still have finished top? Personally I doubt it.

Despite finishing in first place, and considering big game experience, I still think Huddersfield are the weakest of the four semi-finalists. That isn't to say they are incapable of beating us, or even going on to win at Old Trafford (of course they are), but if I had to bet my mortgage on one of the four going on to win at OT, I would bet on the other three before Huddersfield.

good call i say,hudds were not exactly runaway winners of the ll shield,also,imo,i think the wire have the measure of hudds.so good choice ,cant wait for thurs

Nice battle for the family Grix. Their crying on the Hudds board regarding g our arrogance at picking them. It was a freakin choice of two teams. Had Hudds had club call would they not have been arrogant picking a team.
Childish. That's what it is. Tell them to park their skateboard that the fans travel down on near the club shop

Spot on....The problem with clubcall is that it actually penalises the side who it is supposed to be benefitting....The benefit is supposed to be that you can choose your opponent, yet, in reality, it just gives that side more pressure, while giving the opponent an added motivation.

The only way round it IMO, is that the side with the clubcall should have the added option of being able to make it a random draw if they feel that the 2 choices they have are too close to call, which was obviously the call this time around.

Probably the best commercial choice, as asking fans to pay to watch the same fixtures as a fortnight ago wouldn't have been popular.

To show what a complete load of bollox it all is Tony Smith should have tossed a coin, end of.

Would have said to the RFL and Sky shove your club call nonsense up your instead you have picked the most consistent team in the league.

You hae beaten us 3 times this season sorry to say but a 100% record does not last forever :-0)

The most interesting part for me is that the decision was supposedly made BEFORE the Huddersfield and Hull game that the winner would be our opponents regardless of who won between Leeds and Saints!

--nawwwwww i would not read to0 much into the club call myself,whinos are not that unbeatable as we shown last wk,,seems ,with only a point diff between us in the league and our recent form over your lot wire chose to pick you! as simple as that ,nothing more nothing less--imo--

If there was no club call the highest ranked winner would play the lowest ranked winner, so by picking the lowest ranked team you aren't specifically sending out a message you see them as weaker, you are simply picking the lowest ranked who you would be playing if there was no club call and thus you negate much of the negative psychology involved.

'On paper' hudds are not the weaker team. They finished top and just put on a record playoff score. By picking them instead of the lower ranked you are sending out a message that you see something in them as weak, something that you fancy. It's bad psychology. You might as well send them all a text saying you think they are easy and that you will win.

What's also interesting is the general shift in opinion on here. Before the club call it was basically - we'll pick leeds, correct choice, we just shallacked them, they are battered, easier to beat them at HJ than old trafford etc etc.

Now suddenly it's - Hudds, correct choice, we always beat them and one of wigan or leeds will be battered for the final and lambs to the slaughter (obviously hudds warrington will be tiddlywinks).