Although it would be nice to sail through unbeaten I hope Sheens names a changed team. I don't care if it is to the detriment to other teams outcome of the result, I just don't see the point of playing important players in what is a dead rubber, I would play:-

Cockayne (c)
Oakes
Salter
Abdull
Moss
Marsh
Ellis
Johnson
Dockar-Clay
Mulhern
Horne
Blair
Cator

Clark
Clavering
Owen Harrison
Jewitt

Would have been nice to throw the 5 dual-reg players we have out but I think York and Sheffield will need them for their respective campaigns.

I'd rest a few the likes of scruton shaw Lunt Ellis but I'd like to see a competitive side as Catalans are there for the taking and a full strength team against Warrington

Scruton has played his last match in 2017. Ops on shoulder and wrist.

I agree unless there busted what's the point obviously love him or loathe him give cockayne a farewell game something that I felt Morgan should have done with Stanley Gene

The Wire game will be Smith's swan song after today's announcement.

Frankly I don't care if we play the bairns and get stuffed in both games, job done for us.

Can imagine a few will like a run out to celebrate but anyone injured should be into pre-season recovery. I hope if a few young uns get a run out they also have an old head or 2 to help them out.

Charlie will definitely get his send off.

It might be the game they give Agar the main job as well so we'll win by 50

Tbf, there's a bit of a difference between a play-off game, as it was in 2009, and a post-promotion celebration game.

It is a weakness of this format that we won't have our strongest possible team out and I feel a bit for Leigh and Widnes. But Leeds were already sending players for surgery when they failed to beat Hudds last year, and it is only sensible we do the same now.

It was a nothing game wasn't it if was a play off game I could of understood

Iirc, he played in our first SL play-off game at Headingley, but was dropped when we played Wigan at CP the week after.

I'm thinking of the last league game I think when we couldnt move from 4th

Looking back at the results, I think third must have have still been possible at that stage. And tbf, the timings would have been a bit odd potentially. What if he'd been needed against Wigan having already done his big farewell?

Cockayne is very lucky that things have fallen as they have, rather than Gene being unlucky.