With regards to Ellis, he has only recently come back from a long time on the side lines, it would not be resting him, it would be protecting him from injury if his is not picked.

Now, imagine the conversation "So Gaz, I don't want you to get huirt ahead of Wembley, are you ok to sit this one out?"

I would sincerely hope Ellis retort was short, to the point and ended with "and I will play"

His ribs were knackered in 2013 otherwise he could have been our treble winning Wembley captain.

I quite fancy it tbh. At uni, when quidditch was just starting out as a quasi-sport in the real world, we once fell about laughing at the practise on the next pitch so much our coach and captain got hauled in front of the board of directors and threatened with disbandment.

With 20 minutes to go I looked at my son and said "something's got to give". I of course meant Radford's position so I could never have envisaged how the last 18 months would pan out. Still on cloud 9 tbh and I hope the players have remained grounded because you're right, a truly great side can back up Wembley with the Grand Final. We don't have the points buffer we had last season so the next few weeks are going to be hard.

The polarised trajectories of the two sides since that game is astounding and all the sweeter that it was Kirk Yeaman who lit the blue touchpaper.