Would be idiocy to doubt Leeds. They effectively showed that the play off format means jack shiit if your a decent side. A home game and two away games are hardly a challenge, so there's no real incentive to finish higher in the league. I did'nt think they were the best team in the league last year at all, but they have proven ability to lift their game when they need to which benefits them given the rules as they stand. FWIW, I think they'll beat Wigan in the cup because the likes of Peacock, Bailey etc will go to toe with the pies and they won't like being given to them what they so often give out. You have the decent blend in the side to do well. Only prob is Webb who is a version of Meli these days in giving away silly penalties and errors.

If you care to look elsewhere I don't quite advocate this......however I would endorse the concept that the sooner you "throw them in" the sooner they [uwill be[/u "ready".

Not if you throw too many in at once they won't.

You'll just burn them out. London found this last season. Loads of youngsters...great start to the season...Eddie and Stevo creaming over their play-off chances...Rose like rockets - fell like sticks!

If only you got a trophy for runners up in the GF, we'd be miles clear

Again

...if you care to look carefully I do not advocate "throwing them all in at once"...However, by all accounts the likes of Singleton and Hood, if not Ward and Chisholm too, would [ualready[/u be first team SL regulars at some other clubs.

Instead the Leeds club appears more interested and focused on grasping on tightly to the 'old guard' in the forwards at the expense of the younger kids who by now could/should have gained much more valuable SL experience.

If that was the case you'd probably be 6 in a row Semis bottlers rather than 6 time Grand Final bottlers that you are now.