I stand by my comments but time alone will tell. I’d genuinely love to be wrong on this. I really hope teams go all out every week but I can’t see it happening. Taking Wigan just as an example, I can’t remember us putting a full strength side out in a game against Widnes. I put this down to the fact that we can afford to take a chance and risk losing a few games. As long as we have a play off system it’ll remain the same. Bet your life if finishing top made you champions then every team would put their strongest side out week in and week out. I know it’ll never happen and as I said, I’d love to be proved wrong.

Sorry guys, I only came on here to enquire about this weekend's friendly before I stumbled across one of the troll's regular brain farts.

What a prize buffoon you are Kev/LeBron (or whatever you call yourself these days since your ban

Hauraki was average at best for Salford and not remotely missed when we shipped him out to Widnes last season. Lannon has potential but hasn't really kicked on from the initial promise he showed and maybe Sheens can coax that out of him, who knows?

Whilst I've always liked Keinhorst, IIRC, and he'd go well at Salford IMO, he struggled to get into a turd Leeds' team for a large part of last season. Don't recall Garbutt being much cop either when I saw him play. Drinkwater had a good season at Les Froggies and was impressed with his kicking game but isn't the most creative 7 you'll see and isn't fit to lace the boots of Jackson Hastings, who's going to shut a few knockers up who claimed he was a "flat track bully" for his performances in the middle 8's.

Right... off to post on the friendlies thread as was my initial intention....

Didnt Bradford also win it from 5th or 6th?

Not as far as I remember
2005 they won it from 3rd when I think it was Top 6

It was a year they had a horrible injury crisis.

No, they only won it from outside the top 2 once and that was 2005 when 3rd.
They didn't have an injury crisis as such.
They lost their first 2/3 games and iirc nearly lost the next but think they beat us narrowly
They then went on a great run and brought Morley in late on in the season.