I'm not sure..He has all the talent in the world but doesn't seem to have a brain..Lord help us if JT and HocK pack down together next year..

Ok mate, didn't know he was out witha injury.

Chomp

Seriously though, I do fancy our chances though on the other hand we could also get tonked.

Is Deacon going to be fit?

Unlikely.

Turning point for me was the injury to Deacon. Without a back on the bench, we were left with few options here.

We could've moved Joel into the centres and either Pat to FB, Sam to 5/8 or Glees to 5/8. This would have potentially left us defensively vulnerable in the 3/4's against a very good Leeds back line.

The other option was to move Lockers to 6 and bring on another back rower. I still think that this, given the players we had on the field, was the best option, however where it did hurt us is that we lost the link play that Lockers has been doing so well to the outside backs. After Deacs went off we lost a bit of the width we were playing with (and of course the kicking game was affected to)

At the end of the day the day though, hindsight is a wonderful thing. What Sunday demonstrated is a mentality that you have to have in play off footy. Finishing top gives us the advantage of having a bit of a learning curve here. We'll come back from that game a better team imho.