Would have been interesting to see if Huddersfield had have won their first playoff game, would Baloo have been "disrespectful" in his choice for clubcall?

Of course he wouldn't. But yet Tony Smith is.

If I had a quid for every time I've heard similar this season I'd have enough to by the entire families season passes and some left over to buy the home and away shirts!
But if you think that was us at full intensity you've got a shock coming!

I don't know what people expect. Talk about mountains and molehills...

could be costly smith not turning up to the press conference

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all the other coaches turned up...if anything thats the most disrespectful thing...

if you guys are so good...why aren't you making the club call?

The simple truth is being the most consistent team over a season is not a measure of a champion team...as Leeds haven proven for many years now.

You are unproven at this level...win a few more playoff games..get to the final...and even win it...then, and only then will, you make it hard for teams to pick you

You are missing my point TS who should have been there wasn't spoke a load of rubbish about who he'd pick I have nothing against Wire hence my post titled Tony Smith.

Warrington earned the right to chose they chose us no problem just that I don't like Tony Smiths dismissive attitude and the games he plays of which this is another example no doubt he will have another whinge about something before Thursday just hope we don't get distracted and turn up on the night !!!!

I guess we'll see on Thursday won't we

Sanctions? Oh please. If that's the case, why were these "sanctions" not brought against him in 2011 when he did the same thing?

It's a non-story. If the RFL paid £5K to each of the semi finalists for a "high profile presence" at the event, why wasn't Tomkins there representing Wigan? Why wasn't the golden boot winner "Sir" (sic) Kevin Sinfield there representing Leeds? Why wasn't Sky's love interest Danny Brough there representing Huddersfield?

Our club captain was there, the only Englishman to win Grand Finals in both England and Australia. That should be high profile enough for the RFL.

So if we lose that's because we everything against Hull FC? Garbage.

The result will depend on various factors. Christ, depending on which thread you're on Hull FC were beneath Pennine league level and a youth team would have beaten them.

I'd like to thank all the Huddersfield trolls out there for helping create what we are seeing here. The worst part is that many of them don't even realise they are trolls.

It's a close game Thursday that both teams will want to win. My opinion is that we can win but I would bring Faiumu back for Kyle Wood as we need a stronger bench and Lunt will need to do 50/60 minutes but Faiumu can do two roles of 20 mins and fill in more roles if needed.

I think we will turn up Thursday and go close just need to muscle up in the pack and get in Briers face stop his short kicking game which Leeds didn't.

As for blowing out against Hull no way should have done us good !!

Blimey calm down you lot. We had to choose somebody. I'm sure if Saints were in the same position, they would have picked us.

FWIW I class you as 2013 champions.

don't see any problem with this at all, we have been chosen by warrington because they believe, and with reason, that they can beat us at the HJ.
we have to go to warrington on Thursday and show them that they made a mistake in picking us.
no problem at all with it, we all knew warrington would pick us it was a no brainer.
lets go and do the business on Thursday now!

maybe he forgot something while out shopping and needed to nip to Tesco?

The funny thing about all this is smith coming across as acting like a spoilt brat because he thinks the clubcall is a gimmick- yet the way he has dealt with it has actually justified RFL inclusion of clubcall- if hed have tossed a coin live on tv or said well we will go for the lowest placed team like everyone else it would have made it seem a bit pointless.

I think people have just gotten the wrong end of the stick with regards the comments from Hemmings. He asked a specific question about a teleconference on Saturday afternoon that didn't happen. Wire people will have met up and discussed, there is no doubt about it, just not under those very specific circumstances Hemmings referred to. It's a non-story, it really is.

You think Smith isn't taking us seriously? Anyone? Come on. He doesn't post as NickyKiss on here you know.