Any reason you prefer saints over cas to win the SL trophy.
Saints have won it before, Cas have never won it or come close to winning it.
Cas have played far better rugby league than any other team. Also won't it be nice to see a new name on the trophy, isn't that what we'd all like to see,instead of the same old same getting to the final.

It would be refreshing to see either cas hull or Wakefield at old Trafford on the 7th.

Yep.

If we win or draw this weekend then we're guaranteed 3rd and will go to Headingley in the playoffs.

If we lose and one of Saints or Wigan win, and the other one drops points, we're 4th on points difference and go back to Cas in the playoffs.

If we lose and both Saints & Wigan win, we're 5th on points difference.

Saints & Wigan both lose, whatever our result we're 3rd and Wakey will sneak 4th.

cheers DGM

It's squeaky bum time then. We need to get stuck into them from the off, and can't afford to start playing in the second half like we did against Wakefield, although credit to them for preventing us from getting going

I don't pal, Yorkshire all the way (apart from Leeds)

Would love to see a new team win it for a change

It isn't really a 32 game season though in its current format. You need to win 17 or there abouts games out of 30, and then two more at the end and you're champions. Consistency is fairly irrelevant. The club have all season said they just wanted to make sure they were at there best when it mattered. For the most part we have paced the season well. It's much harder when you have a cup run without playing any lesser teams that you can rest players against. I think the reason Radford was so frustrated after the Huddersfield game is that it was a game we had targeted to win, and the players attitude wasn't good enough. Perhaps the only time this season that has happened where we identified a game as really important but didn't perform.

I wouldn't swap Castleford's season for ours at this stage, at least not in terms of results. We have a nice shiny trophy. They have a dinner plate. We are three wins away from being champions, they are two. If Saints win the only thing that separates us is that they will have home advantage. People can call Castleford the real champions all you like, but that isn't the format. If this was F1, all they have done is qualify on pole. The race starts now.

Cas resting plenty it would seem.

Cas leave out Hardaker, Holmes, Massey, Millington, Milner + Shenton for Hull FC, Hitchcox, Egodo, Lynch, Roberts, Maher + Fitzsimmons in.

Dave craven on twitter.

Hull 19 man squad for Friday, Green could return.

1. Jamie Shaul 2. Mahe Fonua 3. Carlos Tuimavave 4. Josh Griffin 5. Fetuli Talanoa 6. Albert Kelly 7. Marc Sneyd
8. Scott Taylor 9. Danny Houghton 10. Liam Watts 12. Mark Minichiello 13. Gareth Ellis 14. Jake Connor 15. Chris Green 17. Danny Washbrook 19. Steve Michaels 21. Sika Manu 22. Josh Bowden 28. Brad Fash

Cas .
Matt Cook, Greg Eden, Tuoyo Edogo, Conor Fitzsimmon, Alex Foster, Jy Hitchcox, Tom Holmes
Kevin Larroyer, Andy Lynch, Will Maher, Mike McMeeken, Paul McShane, Greg Minikin,
Joel Monaghan, Ben Roberts, Jesse Sene-Lefao, Gadwin Springer, Jake Trueman, Jake Webster.

Cas Squad

18. Matt Cook
5. Greg Eden
27. Tuoyo Edogo
28. Conor Fitzsimmons
34. Alex Foster
25. Jy Hitchcox
23. Tom Holmes
33. Kevin Larroyer
8. Andy Lynch
22. Will Maher
12. Mike McMeeken
9. Paul McShane
2. Greg Minikin
21. Joel Monaghan
16. Ben Roberts
15. Jesse Sene-Lefao
19. Gadwin Springer
35. Jake Trueman
3. Jake Webster

So there is no Gale, Moors, Hardaker, Millington, Massey, Holmes, Milner or Shenton.

Would be hugely disappointed not to win now.

Junior Moors also looks to have not been named in the 19 for Cas.

Big opportunity for Hull to do the business on Friday to claim 3rd place, be more than a little disappointed if we don't now with Cas resting so many. Millington, Moors, Massey & Milner missing means we should really be able to get on top in the forward battle.