Agreed. Plus we'll need no incentive going to Huddersfield given recent results!

4th for definate for me , playoffs then wide open for top four although Giants will not get past Wire at any stage they have to meet them . Our biggest worry for me is Danny's absence in the big games

We'll get 4th, and it makes very little difference to being in 5th. Some say we benefited from playing a losing team in week 2 from 5th, which may be true. But this group of players aren't quite as fragile as the likes of Huddersfield, so won't be overly concerned about the possibility of going into week 2 on the back of a defeat.

Whoever you play, you need to beat them (yes, even allowing for second chances). Whatever happens, you need to beat some most of the very best teams. Trying to calculate an easy way through the play offs is the attitude of loser clubs.

Thanks, Captain Obvious

I love the presumption that Huddersfield will finish top.

Still plenty of time for their annual collapse to kick in.

Salford (h)
Wigan (a)
London (a)
Wakey (h)
Bulls (a)

Well, they will never have a better chance to win the hubcap.

If Wigan win out - still a possibility despite their recent wobble - they'll finish top then?

You must be forgetting we have to visit the pie dome

Errrrm, no.

Wigan have......

HKR (h)
Hudds (h)
Catalans (a)
Probably Wembley
Hull (h)
Leeds (h)

So they do have 4 home games but all against top 8 teams and a trip to France before the CC Final, wouldn't be surprised to see a few rested for that one. I know you don't want to go into the playoffs undercooked but that run in could be too much.

Like Catalans gutless display at Wigan last year in round 1? Or Huddersfield's gutless display at Warrington in round 1 of 2011?

Both of those clubs got what they deserved out of the playoffs in each year, elimination at the hands of a Leeds team that knows how to play playoff football.

Both of those teams would've won the GF had they finished 5th, it's a FACT!!

Wouldn't matter what position Huddersfield or Catalan finished... 5th, 4th, 1st... whatever... neither would win the GF (or perhaps even get there)... because they are both whipping boy SL rabble clubs.

OTOH, I reckon a Wigan or Warrington may well have profited a lot more from the deliberate targeting of a 5th placed finish in recent seasons, though evidence suggests both those clubs have chosen not to treat their regular season ticket holders with the requisite degree of contempt which a 5th placed finish would necessarily entail.

william eve posting subjective thoughts yet again


your posts with actual factual information used to do you far more credit,but as the rhinos are the only side to actually win a grand final from 5th and on two separate occasions too,then facts clearly do not suit your agenda on this topic as opposed to your subjective fantasy thoughts
william i hope you havn't had to nip to the bathroom rather sharply when i reminded you of your "subjective fantasy thoughts"

It's true though. Had Wigan not played as consistent during the 2012 season then Jack Murphy would've DEFINITELY caught that high bomb, FACT!

I enjoy rhinos fans (particularly the south leeds interlopers) defending the current play-off system, but I enjoy it even more when rhinos fans defend two 5th placed regular season finishes and a likely 4th placed finish this season. That takes some doing in a SL competition with no more than 3 or 4 teams that are able to provide credible opposition.

I keep forgetting that I'm not allowed to support Leeds because I come from a certain part of Leeds. Its a good job I have someone to remind me, a guy who lives in Leeds yet loves the Aussies league.

Ironically enough the Giants best play-off run was in 2010 when they finished 5th.

Huddersfield have only ever won SL play-off fixtures when they've finished 5th.

Coincidentally the same year Leeds became the only team to finish 4th and not pull their pants down and bend over in week 1 vs 1st place.

It ought to be a cakewalk for Leeds this year according to those who believe it's easier to win from 4th than it is from 5th.

Not 'easier' from 4th, but certainly not the mission impossible it's been painted out to be by some.

Leeds will win the GF again regardless of position IF they're the best team come playoff time (like they've been the last 2 years much to quite a few posters annoyance.....even some of the Leeds 'fans') IF they aren't then they won't.

But now that it looks like Leeds won't finish 5th I'm wondering if you and others will rush to place bets on the team that does???

Hull KR for GF glory????......Go on people and be brave and stick to your guns and put money on them because of course as we've heard all 2 years, 5th can't fail!

Take no notice of Dick (sorry i mean William) only a team of champions will ever win it from fifth , and i doubt it will be done again for a long time